Przeczytaj tekst i odpowiedz na pytania .(2 zadania) There are many stories about confl icts between people and wild animals. We have heard about elephants in Africa eating village people’s plants. There have also been reports of foxes living in people
Przeczytaj tekst i odpowiedz na pytania .(2 zadania)
There are many stories about confl icts between people and wild animals.
We have heard about elephants in Africa eating village people’s plants.
There have also been reports of foxes living in people’s gardens in the UK.
As towns and cities use more and more land, animals have less land to
live on. Usually it’s the animals which lose the competition. But in some
places the animals are slowly winning.
I’ve discovered an amazing story from South Africa. In one part of the
country, people grow a lot of grapes for making wine. A few years ago,
they began to have problems with large groups of monkeys which live
in the mountains nearby. The monkeys love the sweet fruit. They ate all
the grapes they wanted, and then ran off to the mountains to sleep.
The farmers reacted angrily, but some people defended the monkeys.
‘The monkeys have always lived here,’ they said.
1 Read the text quickly and choose the best headline.
a Amusing pet monkeys
b Man versus monkey
c Winemaking in South Africa
2 Complete the sentences with
a word from the text.
1 Wild animals living near
human beings often create
conflicts .
2 The problem is often the
which
humans use.
3 The monkeys in South
Africa enjoy eating
.
4 The farmers were very
with the
monkeys.
5 Nowadays, the monkeys are
more .
6 Many people are
of the
monkeys, and sell their
homes.