Grade 7 English Comprehension & Language: Animals And COVID-19

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Description

A comprehension and language in context workbook with a COVID-19 theme (includes visual literacy).

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Collège
• Secondary education in France
• collège
• Collège
• Collège
• Post-primaire

Informations

• Publié par: Netsport
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• Langue: English

Extrait

English 1st Language

SECTION A:

Comprehension & Language Test

Comprehension

Grade 7

Read the following text and then answer the questions that follow:

African Animals at Risk During Lockdowns NFK Editors June 3, 2020 As the coronavirus has limited the movements of tourists and park rangers, African elephants and rhinos are being killed in greater numbers. Now, with money from tourists drying up, it’s even harder for governmentsto protect the animals. Last week in Ethiopia, at least six elephants were killed in just one day. That’s highly unusual in Ethiopia, which isn’t known to have organised groups of poachers. In all of last year, only ten elephants were killed in Ethiopia. The elephants were killed after wandering beyond the limits of Mago National Park in search of water. After they were killed, their tusks were removed. Ganabul Bulmi, the head ranger for the park said, “It was a mass killing. We haven’t seen anything like this before.”Similar problems are also being seen in other parts of Africa where poaching is more common. Poachers kill elephants for their tusks and rhinos for their horns. Other people, called “traffickers”, buy the tusks and horns and sneak them out of the country. The traffickers sell the tusks and horns again for even more money, usually in Asia.

Elephant tusks can sell for about $450 a pound ($1000 a kilogram). Rhino horns can sell for more than $27,000 a pound ($60,000 a kilogram).

In some parts of Asia–especially China and Vietnam–many people think rhino horns have special powers. They pay a lot of money for the horns, sometimes grinding them into powder, and selling the powder like medicine. One huge change driving the increase in poaching across Africa is the lack of tourists. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, almost no one is travelling. Many groups that work to protect wildlife in Africa depend upon tourists, both to scare off poachers and to bring in money. It may seem strange to think that tourists couldscare off poachers, but it’s true. Poachers usually avoid areas which are popular with tourists, because they’re more likely to be caught in places where lots of people are watching. This helps protect the animals in these areas. Since the lockdown started, both Botswana and South Africa have seen several rhino killings. These killings happened in areas which are normally popular with tourists, where there was no poaching before. But even more important than the tourists themselves is their money. Money from tourism is how governments and other groups can afford the high costs of protecting animals. The pandemic has also created a new threat to wild animals in Africa–people killing animals for food. With so many people out of work, rangers in many places are seeing a large increase in the numbers of smaller animals, such as antelope, that have been killed.  1