Progress check 8 Read and put in order. Bats in Australia

PROGRESS CHECK 8
1. Read and put in order.
Bats in Australia a) People are trying to learn more about their life. They catch them and put small pieces of metal on their legs. b) Some bats travel over one hundred and fifty kilometers from the places where people catch them. How do you catch them? Easily – just take them from the caves where they are sleeping. c) On the metal pieces people write the date and place. Then they wait for these bats in other parts of Australia. d) Australia has about forty kinds of bats. They are the world’s greatest killers of mosquitoes.
2. Read again and write T for True, F for False or DK for Don’t know. 1) Bats in Australia can kill a lot of mosquitoes. 2) People catch bats because they want to learn more about them. 3) Bats usually fly to warmer parts of the country. 4) Bats cannot fly to other parts of Australia after people put metal pieces on their legs. 5) It is a difficult job to catch bats.
3. Read and underline the right word. The great Asian (1) ... Kyzyl-Kum is very big – about 400,000 (2) ... kilometres. When you look at the (3) ... you can see that the Syr Darya (4) ... is to the (5) ... of it and the Amu Darya is to the south west. The (6) ... problem in the Kyzyl-Kum is water. One of the interesting places here is the Kyzyl-Kum National Park. It is (7) ... for different kinds of birds and gazelles. 1: a) river b) desert c) country 2: a) square b) long c) big 3: a) map b) book c) capital 4: a) sea b) river c) mountain 5: a) left b) area c) north 6: a) easiest b) nicest c) biggest 7: a) continent b) difficult c) famous
4. Put the words in the correct order. 1) a lot of/There/flowers/and grass/are/. 2) is/The climate/very/in winter/cold/. 3) In winter/are/and birds/white/the animals/. 4) change/they/their colour/In summer/to brown/and grey/. 5) recycle/People/paper/should/. 6) When/make/tea/we/we/energy/use/. 7) comes/Global warming/energy/from/we use/.