Letting the Land Go Wild

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge Ready original exercise

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning (0).

MAIN

EXTINCT

TIRE

PROTECT

LIVE

IMPOSE

VITAL

CONVENIENCE

Rewilding, the practice of allowing land to return to its (0) ___ state, has moved in little more than a decade from the fringes of conservation into the (1) ___ . Rather than tending the countryside like a garden, rewilders reintroduce species that were hunted to (2) ___ centuries ago and then, as far as possible, leave nature to its own devices. Beavers are a case in point. These (3) ___ engineers build dams that slow the flow of streams, creating wetlands rich in wildlife and giving towns downstream valuable (4) ___ from floods. Not everyone is enthusiastic. Farmers fear that predators such as the lynx could prey on their (5) ___ , and some rural communities regard the whole movement as an (6) ___ by urban outsiders who will never have to live with its consequences. Proponents counter that rewilding can (7) ___ struggling rural economies by attracting visitors in search of genuinely wild places. Whatever one's view, the debate has forced into the open a question that has long been (8) ___ ignored: what, and whom, is the countryside actually for?

Letting the Land Go Wild

NATURE

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