Singing in the City - Ready for Use of English

C1 Advanced · Multiple Choice Cloze · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition, Macmillan Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

set

pose

issue

form

warning

announcing

signalling

alerting

appeared

arrived

come

shown

levels

heights

amounts

degrees

proof

support

evidence

belief

flattened

drowned

balanced

cancelled

waits

remains

continues

expects

hinder

deter

obstruct

inhibit

City centres have long been (0) ___ to many bird species, like the sparrow, blackbird and pigeon. However, in recent decades, noise pollution has begun to (1) ___ a real threat to their survival. This is because birds use song for a range of purposes, such as finding a mate and (2) ___ of dangers in the immediate area. Now, thanks to a number of international studies, it has (3) ___ to light that urban birds are adapting the volume and length of their song to combat against the noise of their urban environment. Some species have started to sing at night, rather than during the day, since noise (4) ___ are lower then. Furthermore, there is mounting (5) ___ that birds are deliberately producing more higher pitch notes as lower ones can too easily be (6) ___ out by traffic. It (7) ___ to be seen whether these adaptations help or (8) ___ urban birds' chances of survival, and how they may evolve differently to rural populations of the same species.

Singing in the City

habitat

home

residence

shelter

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