THE WORD “REMOVAL” IS CLOSEST IN MEANING TO ___________.A. TAKING...

70. The word “removal” is closest in meaning to ___________.a. taking b. processing c. moving d. interferingRead the following passage and choose the best answers to the questions.Swans are among the most beautiful of North American waterfowland have always enjoyed the admiration and even the protection of bird lovers. Of the six species in the swan genus, only two are native to North America. The trumpeter swan, the largest of the group, breeds in the northern United States and Alaska, and was nearly wipe out during the nineteenth century craze for elaborately feathered hats. The whistling swan, which winters in large flocks on the Chesapeake Bay, has recently been renamed the tundra swan because it breeds and summers on the northernmost tundra regions of the continent.Recently, populations of mute swans – an exotic species introduced to North America from Europe in the early 1900s – have begun increasing by an alarming 30 to 40 percent annually in some states. Most wildlife biologists today believe the majestic white creatures, with their tendency to destroy a pond’s plant life and drive away native waterfowl, might create havoc on the scale of the gypsy, moth, starling, or English sparrow.Both native species of swans are wild and require large areas of uninhabited summer ground for nesting and feeding. Mutes, however, semi-domesticated and accustomed to people, can nest in pairs of many as three or four on one small coastal pond, whichcan burden delicate and environmentally essential brackish ponds.