Cover of the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Animal instinct for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs and answer the questions.

Answer

  1. The elephants suddenly became nervous and left their habitat. The flamingos suddenly flew to higher ground even though it was the breeding season.
  2. They move away from the danger area.
  3. The sharks were electronically 'tagged', so they could be observed.
  4. Their senses are sharper and they can feel changes in the environment.
  5. The technology isn't always available and doesn't always work. We have lost our 'animal instincts' with the advance of technology.
  6. Similarities → they both smell people when they are sent to disaster areas. Differences → the rats are smaller and can get into small spaces and crawl in damaged buildings more easily.
  7. The rat's brain gives off a signal which is transmitted via a radio on the rat's back.
  8. In destroyed buildings, places where there is no electricity source, places where there are a number of different smells.