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C2Reading and Use of EnglishPart 3

Word formation

For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

Base Words:

1.CONTROVERSY
2.PRECISE
3.RESPONSIBLE
4.RECOGNISE
5.PREDICT
6.UNDERSTAND
7.ADVOCATE
8.ARGUE

Few ideas in conservation have proved as 1. as rewilding. Its supporters argue that, rather than managing every hectare of countryside with painstaking 2., we should allow natural processes to reassert themselves, reintroducing missing species where necessary. Critics, however, regard the approach as naive at best and 3. at worst. Farmers fear that predators will attack livestock, and some ecologists warn that the effects of releasing animals into a landscape that has changed beyond 4. are inherently 5.. Much of the disagreement stems from a basic 6.. Rewilding does not mean abandoning land to its fate; most projects are carefully monitored, and their managers intervene whenever problems arise. Nor is the approach intended to replace farming altogether: its 7. generally see it as one tool among many. 8., the greatest obstacle is not ecological but cultural: a deep-rooted belief that a tidy landscape is a healthy one.

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