WE COULDN'T RELAX...ALL THE GUESTS HAD GONE HOMEPART IV – READ...

10. We couldn't relax...all the guests had gone homePART IV – reading (5.0 points) Question 1: Choose the best option to fill in each of the blanks to make a meaningful passage. (2.0 points) All over the world, people are changing the face of the earth. Wild areas are cleared for farmingand to build roads and expand cities. Our factories, cars and power stations poison the (1)... withpolluting gases and chemical waste. As well as transforming the environment, we are destroyinghabitats, the home of (2)... plants and animals. Living things have evolved over millions of years.Many animals and plants can only (3)... in certain environments. When (4)... areas are destroyed,wildlife can not always (5)... to the new conditions and some species of plants and animals faceextinction because of human activities. People can also (6)... from habitat destruction. When forests are cut down, earth is washedaway , this causes crop failures and starvation. There is the future to consider, too; plants provideessential foods and can also be used in medicines. If species (7)... extinct, their potential value willnever be known. The scale of destruction is enormous. Swamps, forests, grasslands and jungle arebeing cleared at an increasing extend. Half of the world’s tropical rainforests have (8)... beendestroyed. Coral reefs, called the forests of the osean because they are so rich in life, are (9)...around the world. We must limit the damage to habitats now (10) ...they remain a valuableresource for the future.