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Name: ____________________ No. :______________________ Class:_____________________ Tonny English Institute wild. She also founded the organization named Roots and Shoots to offer school children an extensive knowledge of wild animals and conservation of the environment, hoping they would make a big difference to the world. In addition, she showed concern for the conditions of animals in zoos. Likewise, she advocates that researchers should study them in a humane way. Today, world-renowned and highly respected in both the scientific and lay communities, Goodall spends most of her time lecturing and writing to share her belief and encourage people for a better future of wildlife as well as humankind. Questions for discussion: 1. Who is Leakeys Angels? 2. What kind of research does Jane Goodall do? 3. How many years did she observe chimpanzees behavior? 4. In Janes opinion, what threats that humans pose to chimpanzees? 5. Jane saw chimps as her _________. 6. What does she do for chimps? 7. How do the people around the world think Jane Goodall? 8. What are the difference among chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans? 1. animated cartoon (n.) 2. primate species (n.) 3. shed light on (v.) 4. human a1ncestor (n.) 5. habitats (n.) 6. contribution (n.) 7. conservation (n.) 8. pose a threat to (v.) 9. agriculture (n.) 10. timber (n.) 11. extinction (n.) 12. turn one's effort to VR~ (v.) 13. found (v.)
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Have you ever heard about Leakeys Angels? It is not the name of an action movie or an animated cartoon. In fact, Leakeys Angels is the name given to three women, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birut Galdikas, who worked with Louis Leakey, a famous anthropologist. Leakey believed that studies of the primate speciesmans cousinswould shed light on the behavior of our human ancestors. With his help, Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas studied chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans in their natural habitats. Of Leakeys Angels, Jane Goodall is the most famous for her contribution to the conservation of chimpanzees. Jane Goodall, born into a British family, went to Africas Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in 1960, where she began doing her research on the behavior of chimpanzees. After forty years of observing chimpanzees, she came to realize the threats human beings pose to them. For example, the destruction of forests from felling trees for agriculture and timber has caused a sharp decrease in their population because they are losing their homes. Whats more, hunting is another factor that puts chimpanzees on the edge of extinction. As she thought of chimps as her good friends, she turned her efforts to the plight of these animals. She set up centers for animal welfare and conservation. Besides, she launched the campaign Chimpanzee Guardian Project. Many halfway houses were established for injured or orphaned chimpanzees found in the

Tonny English Task 1: In this chapter, we read many articles related to animal protection/conservation. Can you make a list of relevant vocabularies of yourself? You can write down words both English and Chinese to check your understanding. conservation

Supplementary Reading The black-faced spoonbill is one of many endangered birds, and it has the most restricted distribution of all spoonbills.Currently, they exist on only a few small islands off the west coast of North Korea, and stay in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam in the winter. This rare bird has brought Taiwan international attention in terms of conservation and animal preservation.In February 2009, the mudflat at Chiku was the winter home of an estimated 810 black-faced spoonbills. This number is over one-third of all blackfaced spoonbills in the entire world. In the beginning of October each year, black-faced spoonbills begin flying to the mouth of the Tsen-Wen River in Taiwan. Their numbers peak there between the end of November and the beginning of December. Specialists have observed that couples often bring a young bird with them, forming a family unit.Interestingly, the groups of adults return to the north with golden decorating feathers during the following March, leaving behind the younger adults and the smallest of the young. These young adults and the very young stay until May or early June, when by custom they then fly north together to join the adults. Black-faced spoonbills are extremely rare and precious; conservation efforts are necessary to preserve this species.

1. endangered (a.) 2. restricted (a.) 3. international (a.) 4. in terms of (prep.) 5. specialist (n.) 6. precious (a.) 7. species (n.) 1. In which country can we find black-faced spoonbills in summer? (A) North Korea.(B) Hong Kong.(C) Taiwan.(D) Vietnam. 2. According to this article, the total population of black-faced spoonbills is about ______. (A) 810(B) 1,200(C) 2,400(D) 3,600 3. During which time can we find the most black-faced spoonbills in Taiwan? (A) April and May.(B) July and August. (C) September and October.(D) November and December. 4. Which of the following statements is true? (A) Taiwan was famous for killing black-faced spoonbills when they stopped by the island. (B) There are often three members in a blackfaced spoonbill family when flying to Taiwan. (C) Most black-faced spoonbills stay south and then return to the north during the following March. (D) It has been observed that black-faced spoonbills breed their young mainly in North Korea.
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