Cambridge C1 Advanced / reading-english / C1 Advanced

Environment and nature

10 original practice questions. Open them in any order.

Independent preparation material, not an official test or score prediction.

Counting butterflies

Every summer, thousands of volunteers around the country spend fifteen minutes in a garden, park or field counting the butterflies they see. The results make sobering reading. Numbers of several once-common species have fallen [1] (DRAMA) since the survey began, and scientists believe that the disappearance of wildflowers is largely to blame. Yet the count also offers some grounds for hope: in areas where local councils have stopped mowing roadside verges so often, butterflies have frequently returned within a few seasons.

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Part 3 word formation

Read the text. Use the word given in capitals in brackets to form a word that fits gap [1]. Write your answer in capital letters.

Counting butterflies — gap [1]: ‘Numbers of several once-common species have fallen [1] (DRAMA) since the survey began’. Write the correct form of the word.

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