6th grade. Unit 7. Lesson 6. Going, going, gone.

Saying goodbye to rhinos?

The Last Three is a huge sculpture of the world’s rarest animals. It (1. show) the last three northern white rhinos: Sudan, his daughter and granddaughter. The sculpture (2. appear) in New York in March 2018. Soon after that, 45-year-old Sudan (3. die). Rhinos (4. be) on the planet for 40,000 years. In 1960 more than 2,000 northern white rhino (5. live) in the world. In 1980 there (6. be) only 15 of them. The last two rhinos (7. live) in Kenya and (8. guard) (охранять) day and night to protect them from armies of poachers (= illegal hunters), the main threat for rhinos. Have the species become extinct or we already (9. we / ­already / lose) them?

Pasqueflowers (1. begin) to come out at the end of April. That’s why they also (2. call) Easter flowers. They (3. produce) blue or purple flowers before their leaves, not after. The plant (4. cover) with white hairs.
People always (5. always / use) the species in medicine. In the past they (6. paint) Easter eggs green with the help of its leaves.
Pasqueflowers (6. like) dry pine-tree forests or open sandy banks of rivers. The plant (7. find) in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and central Europe. In Belarus it (8. grow) in the west, in the national parks Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Narochansky and Pripyatsky. The species already (9. already / become) rare in many countries and (10. protect) by law. In 1993 it (11. appear) in the Red Book of Belarus.
The natural habitat of the pasqueflower (12. become) smaller because humans (13. destroy) forests. Pasqueflowers also (14. suffer) because of their beauty. Lots of these first flowers and (15. pick and sell) in spring. Another threat is plant hunting: collecting plants from the wild for private gardens. These human activities already (16. already / reduce) the plant populations.
Nowadays Green Network in Belarus (17. take) action to protect the species.