Answers for “Bring back the big cats” with explanation
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| 14. D | 2006 discovery, animal bone | paragraph 1 lines 7 | Untill this discovery, the lynx…………..6.000 years ago,…..farming.
But the 2006 find, …………. the lynx and the mysterious Llewellyn were in fact one and the same animal. If this is so, it would bring forward the tassel-eared cat’s estimated extinction date by roughly 5,000 years.
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| 15. A | large predators, third paragraph | line 8- 15 of 3rd paragraph. | Some of them drive dynamic processes that resonate through the whole food chain, creating niches for hundreds of species that might otherwise struggled to survive.
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16. C |
British conservation, fourth paragraph | Lines 2-5 of paragraph 4 | ….which has often selected arbitrary assemblages of plants and animals and sought, at great effort and expense, to prevent them from changing…
….tried to preserve the living world as if it were a jar of pickles, letting nothing in and nothing out, keeping nature in a state of arrested development.
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| 17. A | Protecting, commercial fishing | Paragraph 5, line 1, 7 | At sea the potential is even greater by …………
…..This policy would also greatly boost catches in the surrounding seas…. These lines suggest that there are some practical benefits of protecting large areas of the sea from commercial fishing |
| 18. C | rewilding, other environmental campaigns | P6, line 1, 7 | rewilding is a rare example of an environmental movement……..
………….it helps to create a more inspiring vision
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| 19. E | evidence, lynx, danger | P7, line 1 | The lynx presents no threat to human beings: there is no known instance of one preying on people
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| 20. D | reduce the number, populations | Lines 7-10 of paragraph 7 | It is a specialist predator of roe deer, a species that has exploded in Britain in recent decades, holding back, by intensive browsing, attempts to re-establish forests.
It will also winkle out sika deer: an exotic species that is almost impossible for human beings to control, as it hides in impenetrable plantations of young trees. |
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minimal threat, from lynx habitats | paragraph 7, lines 14-18, | The lynx requires deep cover, and as such presents little risk to sheep and other livestock, which are supposed, as a condition of farm subsidies, to be kept out of the woods.
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| 22. A | reintroduction, initiatives to return, native | paragraph 7 lines 11-13 | The attempt to reintroduce this predator marries well with the aim of bringing forests back to parts of our bare and barren uplands.
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| 23. NO | first European country, reintroduce | paragraph 8 lines 9-12 | The lynx has now been reintroduced to the Jura Mountains, the Alps, the Vosges in eastern France and the Harz Mountains in Germany, and has re-established itself in many more places.
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| 24. NOT GIVEN | large growth, since 1970, | P8, L 14-15 | The European population has tripled since 1970 to roughly 10,000.
But there is no discussion whether it has exceeded the expectation of the conservationists. |
| 25. YES | changes, agricultural practices, extend, habitat | paragraph 8, lines 15-19 | As with wolves, bears, beavers, boar, bison, moose and many other species, the lynx has been able to spread as farming has left the hills and …..
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| 26. YES | apparent, species reintroduction | paragraph 8, lines 20-21 | ……………….and people discover that it is more lucrative to protect charismatic wildlife than to hunt it.
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