The worldwide effort to combat critical levels of biodiversity loss will fail without far greater involvement from local communities, according to an international declaration. (lines 1, 2)
The current approach is bust, said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotlands conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities thats how were going to meet those targets. (lines 9 12)
Analyze the items below and choose the appropriate alternative: i. Scotlands conservation agency ii. thats how iii. were
A) all items use verb to be
B) none of them use verb to be
C) item (i) uses verb to be but items (ii) and (iii) do not
D) item (ii) uses verb to be but items (i) and (iii) do not
E) item (i) uses the possessive case and items (ii) and (iii) use verb to be
The current approach is bust, said Prof Des Thompson, principal science adviser at NatureScot, Scotlands conservation agency, which contributed to the declaration process run by the Scottish government. What we need to do is work with local communities, local governments and local communities thats how were going to meet those targets. (lines 9 12)
After reading the extract, choose the best option:
A) Both said and contributed are irregular verbs
B) Both said and contributed are regular verbs
C) said is a regular verb and contributed is an irregular verb
D) said is an irregular verb and contributed is an regular verb
Choose the option that shows an example of ordinal numbers:
A) The Edinburgh declaration, published on Monday, urges leaders to work more closely with sub-national governments, indigenous peoples, national parks, local councils and wider society in meeting 20 biodiversity goals
B) signed in Nagoya, Japan, 10 years ago.
C) Thompson said Scotland was set to meet nine of the Aichi goals.
D) The convention on biological diversity was first opened for signature at the Earth summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, in 1992.
Analyze the following sentences regarding the verb tenses and direct or reported speech. Choose the alternative that best describes them and in the correct order: i. None of them were, leaving global biodiversity in a parlous state, the statement says. (line 4) ii. Thompson said Scotland was set to meet nine of the Aichi goals. (line 34)
A) sentence (i) uses simple past and reported speech
B) sentence (ii) uses only direct speech
C) sentence (i) uses past continuous
D) sentence (i) uses direct speech
E) they are both in the present make use of direct speech
After reading The Edinburgh declaration, published on Monday, urges leaders to work more closely with sub-national governments, indigenous peoples, national parks, local councils and wider society, which of the following words follow the same rule of adverb formation as closely?
Analyze the sentences extracted from the article, then choose the alternative that best explains the underlined elements, respectively. i. [ ] thats how were going to meet those targets. (line 12) ii. These are chiefly focused on scientific, policymaking and political capacity [ ] (line 35)