Read the text below. Choose from (A–H) the one which best fits each space (17–22). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Amazon Parrots

Amazon parrots are native to the New World. Indeed, (17) ______ that he brought back to Europe after his first voyage here. There are 27 species of Amazon parrot. Most parrot species are bred successfully in captivity and several types of Amazons are available from breeders and pet stores here in Canada. Prices generally range, depending on the species, from 800 to 1600, (18) ______ .

Amazon parrots are very good at talking and imitating sounds. One test subject, Alex — a parrot, can name about 40 objects, identify seven different colours, and say whether two objects are the same or different; and indisputably, (19) ______ . Studies put the intelligence of these feathered chatterboxes on the same level as three-year-old humans, dolphins and monkeys.

Amazons are actually very similar in personality to monkeys. Parrots are very energetic, playful, social creatures that crave lots of interaction with their human owners. The best pet birds are hand-raised and have bonded early with human companions. More than other parrot species, (20) ______ . They can be, at different times, loud, quiet, stubborn, silly, playfully aggressive or irritable. They will play and fight with their toys for hours on end (21) ______ . Sometimes, an Amazon may temporarily become quite aggressive. Careless owners have had fingers or ears bitten.

You really have to understand your bird’s moods and behaviours (22) ______ . Amazon parrots are definitely not for all pet owners, they need much more love and attention than most people would expect. Owning an Amazon is very similar to owning a dog with wings.

More than other parrot species, (20) ______ .

Read the text below. Choose from (A–H) the one which best fits each space (17–22). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Amazon Parrots

Amazon parrots are native to the New World. Indeed, (17) ______ that he brought back to Europe after his first voyage here. There are 27 species of Amazon parrot. Most parrot species are bred successfully in captivity and several types of Amazons are available from breeders and pet stores here in Canada. Prices generally range, depending on the species, from 800 to 1600, (18) ______ .

Amazon parrots are very good at talking and imitating sounds. One test subject, Alex — a parrot, can name about 40 objects, identify seven different colours, and say whether two objects are the same or different; and indisputably, (19) ______ . Studies put the intelligence of these feathered chatterboxes on the same level as three-year-old humans, dolphins and monkeys.

Amazons are actually very similar in personality to monkeys. Parrots are very energetic, playful, social creatures that crave lots of interaction with their human owners. The best pet birds are hand-raised and have bonded early with human companions. More than other parrot species, (20) ______ . They can be, at different times, loud, quiet, stubborn, silly, playfully aggressive or irritable. They will play and fight with their toys for hours on end (21) ______ . Sometimes, an Amazon may temporarily become quite aggressive. Careless owners have had fingers or ears bitten.

You really have to understand your bird’s moods and behaviours (22) ______ . Amazon parrots are definitely not for all pet owners, they need much more love and attention than most people would expect. Owning an Amazon is very similar to owning a dog with wings.

They will play and fight with their toys for hours on end (21) ______ .

Read the text below. Choose from (A–H) the one which best fits each space (17–22). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Amazon Parrots

Amazon parrots are native to the New World. Indeed, (17) ______ that he brought back to Europe after his first voyage here. There are 27 species of Amazon parrot. Most parrot species are bred successfully in captivity and several types of Amazons are available from breeders and pet stores here in Canada. Prices generally range, depending on the species, from 800 to 1600, (18) ______ .

Amazon parrots are very good at talking and imitating sounds. One test subject, Alex — a parrot, can name about 40 objects, identify seven different colours, and say whether two objects are the same or different; and indisputably, (19) ______ . Studies put the intelligence of these feathered chatterboxes on the same level as three-year-old humans, dolphins and monkeys.

Amazons are actually very similar in personality to monkeys. Parrots are very energetic, playful, social creatures that crave lots of interaction with their human owners. The best pet birds are hand-raised and have bonded early with human companions. More than other parrot species, (20) ______ . They can be, at different times, loud, quiet, stubborn, silly, playfully aggressive or irritable. They will play and fight with their toys for hours on end (21) ______ . Sometimes, an Amazon may temporarily become quite aggressive. Careless owners have had fingers or ears bitten.

You really have to understand your bird’s moods and behaviours (22) ______ . Amazon parrots are definitely not for all pet owners, they need much more love and attention than most people would expect. Owning an Amazon is very similar to owning a dog with wings.

You really have to understand your bird’s moods and behaviours (22) ______ .

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

In the 1700s famous (27) _______ were involved in the advertising business ...

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

...(28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Advertising

Whether it is in print or on television, radio, or billboards, advertising profoundly (23) ______ our life. The ads we see, hear, and smell (in the case of open-and-sniff perfume inserts in magazines) (24) ______ how we feel and what we think about a wide range of products. Companies pay a lot of money to persuade us that their products are the best.

Advertising has a long history in North America. As early as the 1600s, ads were used to (25) ______ English settlers to the Colonies. According to historian Daniel Boorstin, these brochures (26) ______ “hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies…”

In the 1700s famous (27) ______ were involved in the advertising business, (28) ______ them Benjamin Franklin, who ran ads in his publications. And with the boom in mass-circulation magazines, the advertising became the powerful force it is today. Television arrived in the 1940s and (29) ______ a new, action-packed advertising medium.

Creating a good ad isn’t as (30) ______ as it might seem. One key is to find the right spokes person. An effective approach is to have the company president speak. Still another option is to create (31) ______ characters, such as the Speedy Alka-Seltzer fellow, or an animated parrot (Gillette).

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

A memorable slogan is helpful as well: “I can’t (32) ______ I ate the whole thing”; “Where is the beef?”; “You deserve a break today”…

Read the text below. For questions (33–37) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Planting the seeds of change

The Green Wave project aims to help meet the goals of the United Nations Convention (33) ______ Biological Diversity by (34) ______ young people on the importance of biodiversity. In an ambitious program, students from schools all across the world (35) ______ to mark the International Day for Biodiversity each year by planting a single tree of an inborn or locally important species. On May 22nd, (36) ______ student groups will each plant their tree — uniting to send a ’green wave’ from east to west around the planet. Promoting research and learning about nature, encouraging team-work and partnership across countries and continents, The Green Wave (37) ______ a positive step toward maintaining biodiversity all over the world.

The Green Wave project aims to help meet the goals of the United Nations Convention (33) ______ ...