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II. Reading
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Whale sharks are among the largest living fish in the world -- weighing up to
40,000 pounds and 40 feet in length. They are also so docile that humans often swim
with them without concern, snapping photographs of their incredible size.
Line 4 But it is exactly their enormous bulk that had an international commission
adopt restrictions protecting them from impacts associated with the international tuna
purse seine fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).
Commercial fishermen have known for some time that tuna, along with many
other species of fish, congregate around objects drifting on the ocean surface.
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Fishermen often build floating structures called FADs, or fish-aggregating devices, to
attract tuna to an area, allowing them to capitalize on this behavior. Using FADs
makes the job of finding and encircling the tuna in the purse seine nets much more
efficient.
Fishermen also learned that whale sharks are so large that they naturally attract
Line 13 tuna, much like a FAD. This led some fishermen to deploy nets around a whale shark
to capture tuna swimming beneath it. In many of the cases, the encircled whale shark
was also caught in the net and injured or died.
To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission (IATTC) adopted a resolution, by consensus, in 2013 prohibiting the
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placement of a purse seine net around whale sharks and requiring the release of whale
sharks unharmed in the event that they are inadvertently encircled by a net.
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PROBLEM Whale sharks were injured because of the net that fishermen use
for catpture tuna.
SOLUTION Fishermen should not use net while the shark are surrounding.
c) separate
d) distribute
5. The floating structure that helps in catching tuna is called
a) NADs
b) FADs
c) net
d) anchor
6. The word attract in line 12 is closest in meaning to
a) catch
b) support
c) gets attention
d) pretty
7. What does the author mention about what fishermen learned from Whale sharks?
a) They eat tuna.
b) They gather tuna.
c) They attract tuna.
d) They are enormous.
8. The word deploy in line 13 is closest in meaning to
a) mobilize
b) move
c) swim
d) throw
9. Which of the following would likely be get injured or killed when fishermen catch tuna?
a) coral
b) shark
c) whale shark
d) jellyfish
10. Which of the following statements does the passage support?
a) To protect the whale shark, IACCT made a rule to prevent fishermen from using nets to catch
tuna.
b) To protect Whale sharks from extinction, IACCT allowed fishermen to use nets in catching
tuna.
c) The IACCT helped the injured Whale sharks caught by fishermans nets by curing them.
d) The IACCT allowed the organization to take care of Whale sharks by adopting them.
III. Structure
THAT Clause: Study the examples below:
1. They are also so docile that humans often swim with them without concern,
snapping photographs of their incredible size.
2. But it is exactly their enormous bulk that had an international commission adopt
restrictions protecting them from impacts associated with the international tuna
purse seine fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).
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3. Fishermen also learned that whale sharks are so large that they naturally attract
tuna, much like a FAD.
4. To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission (IATTC) adopted a resolution, by consensus, in 2013 prohibiting the
placement of a purse seine net around whale sharks and requiring the release of
whale sharks unharmed in the event that they are inadvertently encircled by a
net.
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B. Write your own example of THAT-CLAUSE using the following uses and
patterns as your guide.
5. Use as a direct
object
7.Pattern: V +
that clause
9.Phrases: in the
event that / But
that / sothat