This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 105 стр.

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2. Unlike most other national parks, Everglades National Park was created as a

theme park.

3. Nine different environments exist within the Everglades.

4. The Everglades is one of the only places on Earth where freshwater alligators

and saltwater crocodiles live in the same area.

5. The National Park Service experts say that early colonial settlers and land

developers destroyed the area on purpose.

6. Unfortunately the balance of nature there has been destroyed irreversibly.

7. However, the US government is concerned about the ecological situation of the

area and makes efforts to improve the situation.

4 VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR EXERCISES

1) Match the beginning of the phrases with their endings to make expressions from

the text

1. come a. an ecosystem from damage

2. meet b. water levels

3. protect c. environmental problems

4. reduce d. to mind

5. cause e. natural water flow

6. re-establish f. the goals

7. animals g. to the area

8. cause damage h. at risk

2) Choose the correct preposition to complete each sentence

Early 1) ___ 2010, work began 2) ___ the Picayune Strand Restoration Project.

A goal 3) ____ the project is to re-establish natural water flow 4) ___ more than

twenty-two thousand hectares 5) ___ land.

Workers removed water 6) ___ that area

7) ____ the early 1960s. 8) ___ the time, the goal was to develop the land 9) ___

Picayune Strand 10) ___ homes. However, the development harmed healthy

wetlands. Project organizers hope to re-create wetlands 11) ____ Picayune Strand and

nearby lands 12)___ redirecting the flow 13) ___ water 14) ____ that area. 15) ___

the same time, they are seeking to re-establish natural water flow 16) ____ the Ten

Thousand Islands National Wildlife refuge. Goals 17) ___ the project are to make