Question

Read the following passage carefully
1 Every form of human activity upset
om or human activity upsets or changes the wildlife complex of the area
unceasingly and unavoidably. Man has destroyed many forms of wildlife for no
reasonable purpose. Small sections of the community for their own narrow, selfish
ends, have destroyed many things of general interest. Expediency has often led man to
make.grave blunders in land use, habitat destruction, and extermination of many
forms of wildlife
2. In his everyday life, man's attitude is determined in the main by purely practical
considerations; ethical or moral considerations come afterwards. Looked at in this
way, the disappearance from Britain of such animals as the wolf and wild boar can be
more easily understood. In our intensively cultivated and overpopulated country there
-> was no room for such large mammals, the one a predator of big livestock and the other
a pest to agriculture. Thus, man's first attitude to animals is the result of their effect on
his survival.)
3. Then there is his concern with sport. The animals he sets aside for this purpose are
given special protection and war is waged unceasingly on any other creatures thatmay be a danger to them. This creates many problems and man has made
errors in his destruction of predators. Until recent years all hawks and
destroyed as "vermin" by game preservers. This meant the destruction
destruction of Kestrels,
which are useful to the farmer: it meant the destruction of owls which are us
farmer; so here you had sport acting against the interests of food production. The
tragedy of all this is that all the killing of predators did not in any way improve man's
sport. It has been clearly shown by modern research that eagles, hawks, falcons and
predatory mammals have not the sightest effect on the number of game birds
anywhere.
4. Broadly speaking, man wages war against the creatures which he considers harmful,
even when his warfare makes little or no difference to the numbers of his enemies.
And he encourages those creatures which are useful, even though their attacks on -
pests make little difference to the number of those pests. It would be true to say.
therefore, that our attitude to song-birds, to most birds of prey and to many of our
predatory animals, arises from the fact that they have either been proved useful or of
no consequence. Either way, from this, we have developed the idea of conversation -
(which means preserving what we have left of our heritage of wildlife and even finding
room for rarities which may do a little damage on the side.


A. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions in
30-40 words:

a) What has been man's attitude towards wildlife?

b) How is the justification given for the killing of wolves and wild boar in Britain?

c) Why has man been killing predators?

d) In the last paragraph the writer talks about contradictory opinions. Explain.

e) How wildlife can be conserved?

B. On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following:

- a) In para 1, tie synonym of 'opportunism' is ........... (a) Interest
(b) expediency
(c) Extermination
(d) blunders

b) In para 2, the antonym of endangering' is .....
a) Heritage
() preserving
b) Consequences
(d) predatory​

Answer 1

Explanation:

a. man's attitude is determined in the main by purely practical

considerations; ethical or moral considerations come afterwards.

b. the disappearance from Britain of such animals as the wolf and wild boar can be more easily understood. In our intensively cultivated and overpopulated country there was no room for such large mammals, the one a predator of big livestock and the other a pest to agriculture.

c. Until recent years all hawks and

destroyed as "vermin" by game preservers. This meant the destruction

destruction of Kestrels,

which are useful to the farmer: it meant the destruction of owls which are us

farmer; so here you had sport acting against the interests of food production. The

tragedy of all this is that all the killing of predators did not in any way improve man's

sport.

d . The definition of contradictory is things that cannot both be true, or that are at odds with each other so that if one is correct, the other is not. When you believe the answer is yes and someone else believes the answer is no, this is an example of a situation where you have contradictory opinions.

e. Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting animal species and their habitats. It is achieved partially through legislation such as the Endangered Species Act, the establishment and protection of public lands, and responsible public practices that conserve wild animal populations.

B.

a. option (b)

b. option ()