We all like going to the zoo, but what about the animals? How do they feel? Should we keep animals in zoos, or is it wrong to take them out of their natural habitat?
On the one hand, zoos play an important role in nature conservation. Many natural habitats are in danger. By keeping endangered species in zoos, we make sure that they survive. In addition, a good zoo can be very educational as it teches us how animals behave and how they act in their habitat. This way we learn how to protect them.
On the other hand, there are certain drawbacks to keeping animals in zoos. Zoos cannot recreate an animal's natural habitat and animals can be very unhappy in cages. It would be more useful to spend money o protecting habitats rather than zoos. Furthermore, there are a lot of good documentaries about animals so zoos are not really necessary for education.
To sum up. there are strong arguments both for and against zoos. Nowadays, most zoos do their best to protect animals. However. J believe that animals should live in an as natural environment as possible and we must do our best to protect them and their habitats.
Choose the suitable prefix or suffix to form the correct word.
1) It is my __ that there are other living beings in the universe. (belief)
2) The country is facing a population (explosion)
3) The importance of this __ has been extremely overrated. (invention)
4) They say that travel the mind. (broadens)
5) __ is probably the most useful form of energy. (electricity)
6) This bag contains all my photography __. (equipment)
7) We have the same model in __ colours. (various)
8) When you work at a nuclear power plant, you must be extremely __. (careful)
9) Extraterrestrial life has not been _ proved yet. (scientifically)
10) You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three __ solid. (dimensional)
Yesterday, as I walked down the Strand, I met George, an old friend of mine. He recognized me at once, though I wore a scarf round my face as 1 suffered from toothache. He told me how sorry he was to see me in such a poor way, and added: « came to see you a fortnight ago but unfortunately we prepared the annual accounts and as one of my colleagues were ill, I couldn't find time to get round to you.» All the time he said this, I tried to remember something I wanted to tell.
Eventually I remembered and said to him: «Just before I came out, I received a letter from
Smith, in which he said that he hoped you would call on him soon. He last ... saw you at Marion's birthday party but you talked so animatedly to Robertson that he didn`t dare to interrupt!» Just then I saw another friend of mine: he waved to me from the other side of the road. I said goodbye to George and started to cross the road; while I crossed a car rushed out from nowhere and knocked me down. Luckily, I fell into an open crate of bananas, which a barrow-boy sold so I sustained no great injury
- though the bananas did!