Đó là lý tưởng cho cả hai lớp học và tự học. Vật liệu cốt lõi cung cấp khoảng 40 giờ giảng dạy, trong khi một số cốt thép khác nhau và các tùy chọn mở rộng được cung cấp trong các thành phần khóa học khác. Sách của sinh viên bao gồm 8 đơn vị dựa trên chủ đề, tập trung vào phát triển các kỹ năng | READING PASSAGE 2 Questions 14-26 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26. which are based on Reading Passage 2 below. strategy Finding out what the text is about 1 The title of this text asks a question. In which paragraph the first or the last would you expect to find a the answer to the question b an expansion of the question Look at Paragraphs A and G to check your answer. 2 Is this text a mainly about tigers b about animals in general Scan quickly through the text looking for animal names to find the answer. Why are so few tigers man-eaters A As you leave the Bandhavgarh National Park in central India there is a notice which shows a huge placid tiger. The notice says You may not have seen me. but I have seen you. There arc more than a billion people in India and Indian tigers probably see humans every single day of their lives. Tigers can and do kill almost anything they meet in the jungle - they will even attack elephants and rhino. Surely then it is a little strange that attacks on humans are not more frequent. B Some people might argue that these attacks were in fact common in the past. British writers of adventure stories such as Jim Corbett gave the impression that village life in India in the early years of the twentieth century involved a state of constant siege by man-eating tigers. But they may have overstated the terror spread by ligers. There were also far more tigers around in those days probably in the subcontinent compared to just 3000 today . So in proportion attacks appear to have been as rare then as they are today. c It is widely assumed that the constraint is fear but what exactly arc ligers afraid of Can they really know that we may be even better armed than they are Surely not. Has the species programmed the experiences of all tigers w1th humans into its genes to be inherited as instinct Perhaps. But I think the explanation may be more simple and. in a way. more intriguing. I Since the growth of ethology1 in the 1950s.
