PART I: WRITTEN RECEPTION (70 points)

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Read the text below and then answer questions 1–7.

CAMELS HELP FARMERS IN AUSTRALIA

I Every morning, Lisa Taylor drives a small
truck across the fields of her large sheep farm in
Australia. She makes sure that her thousands of
sheep are healthy and that they have enough food
5 and water. In one of her fields, there are some
animals that you do not expect to see on a sheep
farm. In that field, together with the sheep, there
are ten camels.
II The camels help Lisa get rid of the acacia
10 trees in her fields. "People brought this type of tree to Australia from India," she says. "Sheep
farmers planted them on their farms to provide shade for their sheep during the hot summers.
But these trees have spread quickly, and they take a large amount of water from the ground.
This causes a lot of the grass to die, and then there isn't enough of it for the sheep to eat.
Farmers have tried to get rid of the trees. They have cut them and burned them, but the trees
15 just grow again."
III Fortunately, scientists in Australia recently showed that camels can prevent acacia trees
from spreading. "The scientists knew, of course, that trees grow from seeds," explains Lisa. "They
also knew that camels like to eat the flowers and seeds on the acacia trees. So the scientists
put camels in fields where grass and acacia trees were growing, and they watched what
20 happened. The scientists saw that in these fields, the camels ate a lot of acacia flowers and
seeds. They also saw that the trees did not spread."
IV This was good news, but the scientists needed more information. For example, they wanted
to know what would happen when camels lived in fields with sheep. So they started working
with several sheep farmers in Australia, including Lisa. They asked these farmers to put camels
25 in some of their fields. Then they told the farmers to check if their sheep were afraid of the
camels. "So far, my sheep have just ignored them," says Lisa. "I haven't seen any problems."

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<u>QUESTIONS</u> (70 points)
Answer questions 1–7 in <u>English</u> according to the text. In questions 1 and 6, circle the number of the correct answer. In the other questions, follow the instructions.