HOMEWORK TASK 3

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Homework Task 3A
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Part 1 (up to 70 points)

A
The following exercise has been designed to test your reading comprehension skills.
Read the text, adapted from an online well-known magazine, on the next page. Decide
whether the sentences below are stated (S) or Inferred ( I ). (40points)

Question answer
1-Tai Shan’s one of the 11 Giant Panda residents in the American
zoos which takes part of the Smithsonian Zoo. S
2-Gian Pandas are originally from China
S
3-Tain Shan’s parents came from China on a large ship
I
4-USA zoos invest quite a lot of money and resources in supporting
the giant pandas S
5-Cameras are on Tai Shan and his mom every day
S
6-Tai Shan’s about 10 years old at the present time
I
7-Bai Yun is another female Panda in The USA
S
8-Giant pandas are charismatic and call peoples’ attention
everywhere S
9-Tain Shan was conceived in the USA
S
10-The hills of Sichuan have a rough irregular surface
I

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TAI SHAN: THE

CUTEST CUB
Fritz Hoffman photography

He's got chubby cheeks. He naps a lot. He eats with his hands. He lives with his mother. Not exactly the kind of
character you'd expect to find at the center of high finance, international diplomacy, fan frenzy, government
scrutiny, and scientific fascination. But Tai Shan is a giant panda cub, and that makes him, well, not your average
bear. Born at 3:41 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2005, at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington,
D.C., Tai Shan is the first offspring of Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, male and female giant pandas shipped from China
to Washington in December 2000 by see. There are only eight other pandas in the United States: two at Zoo
Atlanta in Georgia, two at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, and four at southern California's San Diego Zoo,
where Bai Yun has had three healthy cubs in the past seven years. Together these 11 animals represent an
extraordinary investment of scientific resources—and cash.

Hosting giant pandas costs each zoo an average of 2.6 million dollars a year, and that's if no babies arrive. Add a
cub, and the budget tops three million dollars. Add two cubs (nearly half of panda pregnancies produce twins),
and the tab approaches four million dollars. "Nobody," says David Wildt, head of the National Zoo's reproductive
sciences program, "would ever commit this kind of money to any other species."

What makes pandas so special?.. could be sheer cuteness. Giant pandas possess the charisma that politicians
and movie stars dream of—and people crave a glimpse. The National Zoo's Internet panda cams, which follow
the daily activities of Tai Shan and his mom, draw an average of two million online visits a month. In the first three
months that Tai Shan was on public display, visits to the zoo jumped by as much as 50 percent over prior years.
Adoring fans pack the railing at the Giant Panda Habitat shoulder to shoulder. Fingers point, voices coo, faces
crease in blissful grins. So many cameras click at once that you'd think you were on the red carpet on Oscar
night.

Giant pandas are excruciatingly rare. Even other famously endangered mammals—tigers, gorillas, black rhinos,
Asian elephants—outnumber them, both in the wild and in captivity. China's most recent national giant panda
survey reported that 1,590 of the black-and-white bears survive in the rugged hills of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and
Gansu Provinces. Such a precise figure is questionable, especially for a hard-to-spot species that occupies
isolated and often virtually impassable mountain forests. Wildlife biologists put the free-ranging population
somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 individuals. In captivity, there were only 188 pandas worldwide at the end
of 2005: the 11 U.S. residents, a handful of others in Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Germany, and Austria, and all the
rest in zoos and research centers in their native China.

Adapted from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/07/panda/warren-text/1

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B
Now, scan the above text once again, for the following information. Write the
answers in the box. (30pts)

Question answer

1-The date the cub was born

2-The place Tian Tian and Mei Xiang’s offspring came to life

3-The date Tai Shan’s parents were brought to USA

4-The number of other pandas in The USA

5-The place where Bai Yun has had three healthy cubs in the past
seven years

6-The total of money per year an American zoo invests in Pandas

7-The number of pandas that survive in the hills of Sichuan according

to China’s latest survey

8-The total number of Pandas in captivity by December 2005

9-The total of the free-ranging population of Pandas

10-The number of online visits a month In the first three months that
Tai Shan was on public display

Part 2 (up to 30points)

Write the part of speech (v, n, adj. or adv.) for each bold word from the sentences
below. (2 points each)

Question Part of speech

1- Most families were surviving in tents after the flood until the government
took care of them.
2- The executive director of the National Bioethics Advisory Committee
confessed that in the course of discussing the stem cell experiments, NBAC
hadn't got around to the question of defining an organism
3- It is within common observation that parent and offspring are alike: that the
new organism resembles that from which it has come into existence because
biogenesis takes place.
4- A native of Scotland, now living in the United States, has been prosecuted
for smuggling endangered species by American laws
5-.Giant Pandas act vivaciously when being visited by children in the zoos
6-This antibiotic seems to be working better, but it's strong and now the pandas
have developed side effects.

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Write the words from the previous exercise next to the correct definitions and
underline the root word studied. (3 points each)

Definition word
1- The principle that a living organism must originate from a
parent organism similar to itself.
2 -One born in or connected with a place by birth

3- acting full of high spirits and animation; lively or vital

4- The study of the ethical and moral implications of new

biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields
of genetic engineering and drug research
5-Any of various chemical substances fungi, or made
synthetically and capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth
of microorganisms, esp. bacteria
6- To carry on despite hardships or trauma; persevere.

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