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TASK Reading Read the text carefully. Three sentences are missing in the text. Choose from the sentences AD the one which fits each gap 1-3. There is one extra sentence that you do not need. Monarch without a kingdom

I This November a hundred million butterflies will drop from the sky over Mexico, like autumn.

Jeaves But for how long Genetically modified marze could mean extinction for this beautiful 11 in November millions of Monarchs fall like bright, golden rain onto the forests in the mountain of central Mexico In the lence of these mountains you can hear a strange flapping of

butterfly. Rafael Ruiz reports

wing as the Monarchs anive at their destinations. 1).

III Before reaching their journey's etnd they have faced strong wind, rain and snow storms and they do not all manage to reach their destination When the winters are really bad, phuppo 70 per cent of them will not sure Their long joumey to Mexico a thought to be one of the most amazing eventa in the whole of the American continent When they get there they will stay until the begining of Apnl when the internal calendar tells them that it is tume to go back

2) IV These delheate creatures now face danger of another knd- from seientific progreuuterflies 3)

Laboratory experiments have shown that half of the b European Union has refused to approve new erops of genetically modified maize until further

wuch feed on the leaves genetically modified maize die within 48 hours. Not all experts agree that the vanety of munizem responsible for the threat to the Monarcha In spite of these doubta, the

vestigations have been carried out

A In the US, millions of films grow genetically modified maize which is pure poison for the

butterfly

B. In the mountain, which reach a height of 3.000 metres, the butterflies are safe.

C According to the investigations of the European Union the Monarch butterfly may disappear in

several decades D. The long journey, with all its dangers, begins again

Find words in the text which have a similar meaning to these definitions

Example an organism containing genetic material that has been artificially altered genetically modified 4. when a particular kind of animal no longer events (paragraph f) [1] 1

5. the nose wings make as they move (paragraph 6. what a scieatist does in order to find something out (paragraph

TASK 2 Writing

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