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    Listening Psi mal 3 Match words 1-6 to thelr definitions a-g. There is ‘one definition that you don’t need. 1 incommand a consider someone responsible 2 reef _ small, furry animals that live in 3 spill water and eat fish 4 sea-otters © rocks, sand and coral at or near 5. plankton the sea surface 6 blame tiny plants and animals that live in the water € ina position of authority; in charge £ ina situation that’s impossible to control § liquid that has flowed out of its container (horde 25 min 4 % 12 Listen to an account of an environmental disaster that happened in the 1980s, Choose the correct option(s) to complete each sentence 1-8. At least one of the options is always correct, and sometimes both options may be correct! Listen twice, and circle a, or b, o both a and b. 1. Captain Hazelwood 4 commanded a ship named after an oll company and the port of Valde2, Alaska. b owned an oil tanker called Exxon Valdez. 2 Late night on 24 March 1989, the captain 4. left his third officer in charge of the ship. returned to his cabin because he wanted to do some paperwork. 3 Allittle after midnight, the ship arrived at a port called Bligh Reef. bb collided with some rocks in the water. 4 Fifty million litres of oil spilt into the sea, b_ was being transported by the Exxon Valdez. 5. The clean-up operation a was delayed by a storm that had damaged the rescue ship. bb started fifteen hours after the frst report of the accident, 6 The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez 4 was cleaned up within the first two days after the disaster. b_ caused millions of animals and fish to die. 7. ‘The fact that 25% of the plankton in the sea was destroyed meant that many animals and fish died because they had nothing to eat. that 4,800 square kilometres of sea was covered in oil. 8. The Exxon Valdez disaster a was one of the first huge oll spills in history. 'b_ was the captain's fault Smart ansver key on page 173 EXAM TIP i Remember that information in the task items and in the recording may be expressed using cifferent words with the same meaning. Betore you listen, quickly read the statements oF {uestions and try to think of other ways of saying the same things. Use of English > 20 minutes 5 Look at the ten verbs in brackets in exercise 6 quickly, then write down all ‘the appropriate forms, as in the example below. Check that you have spelt each form correctly. Example: BLAME tw-infinitive tw blame Past Simple blamed Past Perfect had blamed -ing form blaming Passive be blamed 6 Read the text about climate change, ‘then choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets to fill the gaps. Global warming may be‘ (BLAME) for recent heatwaves and deadly storms. But at least our plants have been “___ (ENJOY) the weather. According to a study * (PUBLISH) last week, regional climate changes ‘over the past two decades *__ (INSPIRE) a 6% increase in plant growth around the world. Rising temperatures, increased rainfall and decreased cloud cover have all °___ (PLAY) a part. The 80s and the 90s were two of the warmest decades ‘on record and during this period the ‘vegetation in its ecosystem *__ (FLOURISH). In the Amazon, decreased cloud cover allowed more sunlight *— (REACH) plants; in India, ‘monsoon-

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