UNIT 6: ENDANGERED (SYNONYM 1)

Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are already being eliminated.

• dropped

• removed

• kicked

• tossed

This is especially worrying when there are about 3,000 plants with values as medicines against cancer, AIDS, heart disease and many other sicknesses.

• well

• suddenly

• particularly

• highly

The seashore was much polluted because of the amount of waste left there. All this rubbish is killing fish and other marine life.

• sea plants

• sea mammals

• water life

• sea creatures

The plant tissues form food for the plant-eating animals (herbivores) which are in turn eaten by flesh-eating animals (carnivores).

• leaves ( lá )

• roots (rễ )

• cells (tế bào, mô )

• trunks ( thân cây )

We should do something to protect animals which are on the verge of extinction.

• at stake

• in danger

• on border

• in risk