Matura 2024, poziom rozszerzony, zadanie 7.4
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CROWS CAN CLEAN UP OUR STREETS
About 4.5 trillion cigarette filters are dropped on the world’s streets each year. But one start-up company, called Crowded Cities, is working on training crows to 7.1. [recognize] and pick up cigarette butts. Crows are among the most intelligent members of the animal kingdom and 7.2. [therefore] the idea of training them to pick up litter is not as crazy as it may sound. According to studies, they already use certain tools in their own habitats. What’s more, they respond well to reward systems and are 7.3. [capable] of learning from one another.
The founders of Crowded Cities got the idea to use crows for their project when they 7.4. some information about a man named Joshua Klein, who teaches crows to collect coins.
An important step in the crows’ training is to teach them to drop the cigarette filters into special machines, called CrowBars. If an item dropped into a CrowBar is identified by the machine as a cigarette butt, it releases a piece of food for the crow as a reward. This 7.5. [is done] in order to encourage the crow to return with more cigarette butts. If this scheme proves to be successful, cigarette butts will be easily removed from streets. It must be pointed out that cigarette butts pose a threat to the environment as they are non-degradable. They find their way from streets to drains, to rivers, and 7.6. [eventually] to seas, oceans and beaches. Not only are they unsightly, but they’re also toxic to certain marine animals.
Na podstawie: recycle.ab.ca
Źródło: CKE, matura 2024, język angielski, poziom rozszerzony, arkusz MJAP-R0-100-2405, zadanie 7.4 · Arkusz na stronie CKE
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Wyjaśnienie Kleksy
Zdanie mówi, że założyciele firmy natknęli się na informację o Joshui Kleinie, najpewniej przypadkiem. Potrzebny jest czasownik złożony z dopełnieniem some information: come across znaczy „natknąć się na coś, znaleźć coś przypadkiem”.
A (came up) wymaga kolejnej partykuły: came up with an idea, a nie came up information. B (came about) znaczy „zdarzyć się” i nie przyjmuje dopełnienia. D (came round) znaczy „wpaść z wizytą” albo „ocknąć się”.
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