- •Part II
- •The Benefits of Online Fitness Training
- •Part III
- •Good Food Guide to the States
- •In which review are the following stated?
- •Use of english Part I
- •Fingernails growing faster
- •Part II
- •A short history of tattooing
- •Part III
- •India's rainforest by night
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •Part II
- •Getting rid of plastic bags
- •Part III
- •Use of english Part I
- •The sticking plaster
- •Part II
- •How the Tour de France began
- •Part III
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •Australian Adventure Holiday
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •Part II
- •Chance encounter
- •Part III
- •Use of english Part I
- •The Orient Express
- •Part II
- •In pursuit of excellence
- •Part III
- •The people of the Orinoco Delta
- •Part IV
- •Listening Part I – Multiple Matching
- •Part II – Sentence Completion
- •The magnificent carrot
- •Part III – Multiple Choice
- •An Apple Day
- •A New Approach to Cooking
- •Zookeepers for a day
- •Part II
- •Two Journalists and the Butterflies of Britain
- •Independent journalist Michael McCarthy reports on a new book about butterflies which has made a remarkable impression on him.
- •Learning about Black Bears
- •Conserving Jaguars
- •Ecology in a Volcanic Lake
- •The not so nutty professor
- •Part III
- •The Latest Computer Games
- •Campsites of Australia
- •Use of english part I
- •What makes someone intelligent?
- •The value of walking
- •Fashion hurts
- •Greenpeace
- •Part II
- •Salt consumption and health
- •Environmental issues
- •Kangaroos
- •Flamingos
- •Part III
- •An unusual park
- •The importance of pets
- •The smell of New Zealand birds
- •Evidence of ancient towns found in Amazon
- •Part IV
- •Speaking
- •Listening
- •Section three supplementary files
- •An Autism Treatment as Easy as h2o?
- •Ants Are First Animal Known To Navigate By Stereo Smell
- •As Elders Rock, Emotional Burden Of Dementia Eases
- •Beyond the Brain
- •In Sheep, an Upside To Immune Weakness
- •Arthritis
- •The effect of climate change on migratory birds
- •Allergy Alert
- •Fire Crews Hunt Escaped Hamster
Flamingos
Flamingos, those beautiful long-legged pink birds, rub the reddish pigments, released in oil from a gland near their tail, into their feathers to bring (0) … their vibrant colour. The result, according to researchers studying the birds in Spain, (1) … that the birds seem to become far (2) … likely to find themselves a mate.
Scientists Noticed that, (3) … they were arranging their feathers, many flamingos scraped their cheeks across the gland before rubbing their face against their breast, back and neck (4) … the aim of spreading the colour.
In a journal article, the experts explained that (5) … so helped the birds appear extra attractive to potential mates - not so (6) … because of their eye-catching colour, but because other flamingos could tell they had (7) … an effort with their appearance.
One of the researchers says: 'The rubbing is time-consuming. And (8) … more frequently the birds practise it, the pinker they become.
'If the birds stop rubbing, their colour fades in a (9) … days because the pigments bleach quickly in the sunlight.'
Rubbing the pigment into the feathers takes time and effort, and, (1 0) … a result, colourful feathers are a sign to the opposite sex that a flamingo is healthy and well-fed, because it (11) … afford to spend time on (12) … it looks.
The behaviour is more common in female flamingos (13) … in males, the researchers said.
They added that the brightest coloured birds also took the best breeding sites, (14) … gives them a reproductive advantage (15) … their paler rivals.
Part III
Exercise 1. For questions1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example: 0 exceptional
Genius
We all know stories about people with (0) … memories who have the (1) … to remember hundreds of numbers after hearing them only once. Now experts are saying that such feats can be taught. For example, most people can (2) … about nine numbers if they are read out one a second. In one experiment, ten hours' training (3) ... only a small (4) ... , but the results after practising for a thousand hours were (5) … some people remembered 80 or even 100 numbers. Similarly, most adults can (6) … only about five out of a set of 21 colours that are only (7) … different. But after 80 training hours one person could recognise 18 of them. Studies of 76 major (8) … show that it took at least ten years of (9) … training before any of them wrote a major work. Psychologists are therefore raising the (10) … that genius is the product of teaching. |
0 - EXCEPTION 1 - ABLE
2 -REPETITION 3 - PRODUCT 4 - IMPROVE 5 - AMAZE 6 - IDENTITY 7 - SLIGHT 8 - COMPOSE 9 -MUSIC 10 - POSSIBLE
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Exercise 2. For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example: 0 usually