Reading comprehension

Did you Match the titles with the texts

know ? How colourful coral is transformed into sand

Smelly books go on display
2 India- Snake named after Salazar Slytherin
Living with the animals
United Arab Emirates Dugongs benefit from anti-net law

A new exhibition has been announced at the University

of Oxford, in England, that will feature the smells of
some of the world’s oldest books. Scientists have
found a way to extract the scent of old books, so that
people can smell them like they would a perfume. One
of the books is an early version of The Lion, The Witch
and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. The pages still smell
of the tobacco that the author smoked while writing it.
Roger Michel, who worked on the project, says they
chose “sufficiently smelly” books. The exhibition,
called Sensational Books, is scheduled to open later this
year.
A ban on fishing nets in Abu Dhabi has more than halved
the death rate of the local dugong population. Dugongs,
sometimes called sea cows or manatee, are marine
mammals like whales and dolphins. They swim to the
surface to breathe every few minutes. More and more
of them were dying after getting trapped underwater in
fishing nets. In December 2018, a law banned the nets,
and a new study has shown that 10 dugongs died this
winter, compared with 23 the previous year.

Lucy Hawley is a zookeeper who lives inside London Zoo. Only

a specially selected group of keepers can live on-site at the
zoo, but after 11 years of working as a keeper, Hawley was
chosen to be one of them. Hawley told The Guardian
newspaper:” I grew up in an animal-loving household. At one
point there was me, Mum and Dad, two cats, two dogs, two
rabbits, a hamster, a tortoise and a cockatoo, so it is normal
form to be surrounded by animals.” She wakes up at 7am
every day when a gibbon (a type of small ape)
named Jimmy starts singing loudly. She then checks on the
animals, including harrier hawks and sloths. Her favourite
residents of the zoo are small monkeys called emperor
tamarins. “A keeper will say they don’t have favourite
animals, but it’s a lie,” she admits.
Corals are not plants, they are very strange animals. They grow extremely
slowly – around two centimetres a year – so some of the big coral reefs
we see today have taken 50 million years to form. The fine white sand on
tropical beaches is actually digested coral that’s been pooed out by fish.
One fish family, known as parrotfishes, is especially good at this. A green
hump head parrotfish can poo out 90 kilograms of sand in just one year.

Scientists in India have named a new species of green pit

viper snake after a character from Harry Potter. It was found
in Arunachal Pradesh, near the Himalayan mountains. The
snake was named Salazar’s pit viper after the character
Salazar Slytherin, who was one of the founders of Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter books.
His character is known for being able to speak to snakes.

Match the word with its synonym or its definition

A- exhibition 1- something to catch fish

B- feature 2-Caught in a trap / captured
C- scent 3-Divide equally
D- wardrobe 4-Caretaker
E- sufficiently 5-Element / Factor / Ingredient
F- scheduled 6-On the spot
G- fishing net 7-Inhalation / inspiration
H- halved 8- an Australian bird with a decorative crest (growth of
I- to breathe feathers) on its head and a powerful beak
J- trapped 9- a shaggy-coated arboreal edentate mammal, a very slow-
K- banned moving animal.
L- zookeeper 10- Closet / dresser/cupboard
M- on-site 11- Defecated / left by fish
N- household 12- A bump
0- cockatoo 13-Odor / Perfume
P- harrier hawks 14-Abyss / crater
Q- sloths 15-A bird of prey
R- Reefs 16- A strip or ridge of rocks, sand that rises to or near the
S- Pooed out
surface of a body of water.
T- Hump
17- Exposition /fair
U- Pit
18- House / Family circle
19- anticipated / expected / planned
20- Outlaw /illegal
21- Enough / adequately
 Smelly books go on display
A new exhibition has been announced at the University of Oxford, in
Keys
England, that will feature the smells of some of the world’s oldest
books. Scientists have
found a way to extract the scent of old books, so that people can smell
them like they would a perfume. One of the books is an early version
of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. The pages
still smell of the tobacco that the author smoked while writing it.
Roger Michel, who worked on the project, says they chose A- 17
“sufficiently smelly” books. The exhibition, called Sensational Books, B-5
is scheduled to open later this year. C-13
D-10
E- 21
India- Snake named after Salazar Slytherin F- 19
Scientists in India have named a new species of green pit G- 1
viper snake after a character from Harry Potter. It was found H- 3
in Arunachal Pradesh, near the Himalayan mountains. The I- 7
snake was named Salazar’s pit viper after the character J- 2
Salazar Slytherin, who was one of the founders of Hogwarts K- 20
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter books. L- 4
His character is known for being able to speak to snakes. M- 6
N -18
O- 8
United Arab Emirates Dugongs benefit from anti-net law P- 15
A ban on fishing nets in Abu Dhabi has more than halved the death rate of the local dugong Q- 9
R- 16
population. Dugongs, sometimes called sea cows or manatee, are marine mammals like
S- 11
whales and dolphins. They swim to the surface to breathe every few minutes. More and
T- 12
more of them were dying after getting trapped underwater in fishing nets. In December
U- 14
2018, a law
banned the nets, and a new study has shown that 10 dugongs died this winter, compared
with 23 the previous year.

Living with the animals

Lucy Hawley is a zookeeper who lives inside London Zoo. Only a specially selected
group of keepers can live on-site at the zoo, but after 11 years of working as a keeper,
Hawley was chosen to be one of them. Hawley told The Guardian newspaper, ”I grew
up in an animal-loving household. At one point there was me,Mum and Dad, two cats,
two dogs, two rabbits, a hamster, a tortoise and a cockatoo, so it is normal form to be
surrounded by animals.” She wakes up at 7am every day when a gibbon (a type of
small ape) named Jimmy starts singing loudly. She then checks on the animals,
including harrier hawks and sloths. Her favourite residents of the zoo are small
monkeys called emperor tamarins. “A keeper will say they don’t have favourite
animals, but it’s a lie,” she admits.

How colourful coral is transformed into sand

Corals are not plants, they are very strange animals. They grow extremely
slowly – around two centimetres a year – so some of the big coral reefs
we see today have taken 50 million years to form. The fine white sand on
tropical beaches is actually digested coral that’s been pooed out by fish.
One fish family, known as parrotfishes, is especially good at this. A green
humphead parrotfish can poo out 90 kilograms of sand in just one year.