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Environmentalists dedicate a lot of their time to running campaigns to raise people's awareness about protecting endangered species.
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No matter what I said to him, he still did not believe me. He is certainly a hard nut to crack.
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Names of people in the book were changed to preserve anonymity.
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All of the students are obliged to pass the entrance examination in order to attend the university.
Disapproval from Parents
Parental disapproval of relationships is very common, for a variety of reasons. Your parents may have concerns regarding whether or not you are truly ready to date or if the person you are interested in might not be a good influence. They may also not be ready to admit that their child is nearing adulthood. If you're dealing with this, try to discuss your feelings with your parents. Listen to them and be ready to follow some rules about your relationship. If your parents forbid you from seeing the
person, you should abide their wishes. You can still see your boyfriend or girlfriend at school and friends. If you stay friends after you graduate, you can start dating again since you'll be old enough to make your own decisions. While this may hard to accept at first, what is meant to be will be.
He went back to work in his country after he _____ his course on Advanced Engineering in London.
There will be _____ jobs for people because robots will do the same jobs as people.
There were a lot of people at my friend's wedding party, only a few of _____ I had met before.
Social distancing, also called "physical distancing" means _____ space between yourself and other people outside of your home.
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talked
passed
searched
removed
feather
although
together
thorough
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Disabled people can contribute to our community. Non-disabled people can also contribute to our community.
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The man wanted to get some fresh air in the room. He opened the window.
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The Montessori method of educating children is named after its founder, Maria Montessori, an Italian scientist, medical doctor, and educator. This method is guided by perhaps a half-dozen major principles of education. The first affirms the biological programming of child development, the child's capacity for self-realization, for "auto-education". The second calls for "scientific pedagogy". A science of childhood based on observation. The third demands a natural environment in which self-development can be expressed and observed. Montessori believed that the school could be made into such an environment, thus becoming a laboratory for scientific pedagogy. This environment should be determined scientifically. In order to expand, children, left at liberty to exercise their activities, ought to find in their surroundings something organized in direct relation to the children's internal organization. All of these principles imply the next, which Montessori calls the "biological concept of liberty in pedagogy": the child must be free to act spontaneously and to interact with the prepared environment. The entire program is concerned with the individual child; the spontaneity, the needs, the observation, the freedom are always those of the individual. Finally, the modus operandi of the method is sensory training.
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Where humans have planted crops for food unless they are organic, poisonous chemicals have been sprayed on them; insecticides are used to kill insect pests and herbicides are used to kill weeds. Fungicides fight off fungal diseases. Artificial fertilizers are added to the soil to increase the yield of the crops. If these chemicals are used in excess, some of them dissolve in rainwater and drain into rivers, streams and ponds, polluting the water and killing the wildlife.
The "weeds" competing with the farmers' crops include wild flowers and many of these have become endangered through the use of herbicides. Insects rely on plants for food and breeding sites so the number of these are affected by a reduction in the number of plants. Many birds depend on insects for food so the numbers of birds may be affected by the use of both insecticides and herbicides. One of the reasons why the Barn Owl is endangered is due to a shortage of insects and it may also be poisoned by eating insects affected by chemical sprays.
The case of DDT as well as other chemicals known as organochlorine is well known. These were first used extensively in the 1950s, sprayed onto crops to kill insect pests. Unfortunately, after a few years, it was noticed that birds of prey were rapidly declining in numbers and thousands of seed-eating birds were dying. By the 1960s the once common sparrow hawk was a rare bird in Britain. The sparrow hawk’s prey were the seed-eating birds that were carrying the poisonous insecticides in their bodies. Consequently, many sparrow hawks and other birds of prey were being indirectly poisoned by the chemical sprays. The organochlorine also caused many birds to lay thin-shelled eggs, which cracked easily.
Research showed that the chemicals were entering the food chains and being stored in the fat of the animals' bodies. For example, a thrush may eat snails that have eaten a sprayed cabbage plant. The thrush may not have eaten enough poison to be actually killed but a sparrow hawk eating several thrushes accumulates so much of the poison that it is killed. The chemicals become more concentrated as they travel up the food chain. Even most humans still have small amounts of organochlorine in their fatty tissues although these chemicals had been withdrawn from use by 1976. They are still used, however, in some Third World countries. By the 1980s the sparrow hawk population had recovered dramatically and it is once again a common bird. This example shows just how dangerous the use of chemicals in the environment can be.
As mentioned earlier, some plants are endangered through collectors such as the Venus fly-trap and some tropical orchids, but most threatened plants have become so through the destruction of their habitat. Once very common plants have almost disappeared because of the way humans have changed the land. For example, the Egyptian Papyrus, a type of reed, had been used for thousands of years for all sorts of things such as paper, medicine, boats, baskets, food etc. Then, when changes in the irrigation methods on the river Nile were introduced, this valuable plant almost completely disappeared. It was thought to be extinct until 1968 when a few plants were found in an undisturbed waterway. Orchids have been also collected from rainforests to become household favorites, causing many species to become endangered.
According to the passage, sparrow hawks are described as a species that _____.
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Our council should provide cheap car parks on the outskirts at the town and free bus services to the center.
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It is essential that cancers are diagnosed and treated as early as possible in order to assure a successful cure.
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Five miles beyond the hills were a fire with its flame reaching up to the sky.
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Without her teacher's advice, she wouldn't have written such a good essay.
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"Don't forget to tidy up the final draft before submission." the team leader told us.
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When I picked up my book, I found that the cover had been torn.
After a party at Mary’s house.
Bill: "_____"
Mary: "Thanks for your compliment. Good night!"
Maria is talking to Ann after work.
- Maria: "_____"
- Ann: "With pleasure."