tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 3

Mời các bạn thử sức bản thân thông qua việc giải những bài tập trong IELTS Academic Reading 3 sau đây. Tài liệu phục vụ cho các bạn đang chuẩn bị cho kỳ thi sắp tới. | IELTS Academic Reading 3 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 16-28 which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Zoo Conservation Programmes One of London Zoo s recent advertisements caused me some irritation so patently did it distort reality. Headlined Without zoos you might as well tell these animals to get stuffed it was bordered with illustrations of several endangered species and went on to extol the myth that without zoos like London Zoo these animals will almost certainly disappear forever . With the zoo world s rather mediocre record on conservation one might be forgiven for being slightly skeptical about such an advertisement. Zoos were originally created as places of entertainment and their suggested involvement with conservation didn t seriously arise until about 30 years ago when the Zoological Society of London held the first formal international meeting on the subject. Eight years later a series of world conferences took place entitled The Breeding of Endangered Species and from this point onwards conservation became the zoo community s buzzword. This commitment has now been clear defined in The World Zpo Conservation Strategy WZGS September 1993 which although an important and welcome document does seem to be based on an unrealistic optimism about the nature of the zoo industry. The WZCS estimates that there are about 10 000 zoos in the world of which around 1 000 represent a core of quality collections capable of participating in co-ordinated conservation programmes. This is probably the document s first failing as I believe that 10 000 is a serious underestimate of the total number of places masquerading as zoological establishments. Of course it is difficult to get accurate data but to put the issue into perspective I have found that in a year of working in Eastern Europe I discover fresh zoos on almost a weekly basis. The second flaw in the reasoning of the WZCS document is the naive faith it places in its 1 000 core zoos. One would .