Even small and clean towns as Saddleboro from the story Who Really Killed Cock Robin? by the American writer Jean Craighead George* have some environmental problems E 1) Which…

Even small and clean towns as Saddleboro from the story Who Really Killed Cock Robin? by the American writer Jean Craighead George* have some environmental problems E 1) Which environmental problems does the Mayor try to cope with? is he the saw first home Tony he read. Dambrowskis south note had from in The picked was the made the yard next up dated a maple south." sang note note small April tree of the was Farther pocket 29: across other dated territorial "A down the male notebook male April on street song robins. the and 30: robin of just same "One the "The opened after arrived is page, robin it. male sunup, singing from Tony The who in " on from Pine somewhere Street." near the "iui library. al y Also Also in in the the Town Park, also Tony was keeping these notes for his elder brother, Izzy, who had_been_drafted into the Army before he had been _able to finish his research on the robins of Saddleboro. Although Izzy was much older, he had often taken Tony on his rounds of the streets and yards of Saddleboro. They counted robins, mapped their territories, and numbered eggs. "Good notes are the basis of scientific research,' Izzy told Tony. He had then taken Tony around anything the unusual town or again, even told him usual, to then write down suggested he weather, make plants, one round alone. When he came home, Izzy had been surprised by his powers of observation and had praised him. Six months had passed since then. Tony studied the notes. He took out a map of bird territo- ries and saw that where there had been many pairs of robins four years ago, there now were very few. He was shocked. Like all the people of pollution-fighting Saddleboro, Tony was under the illusion there were more, not fewer, robins. Since Mayor Joe and his Clean Environment Party had come into power, ev- eryone thought that Saddleboro was a model town where man, plant, and animals were in balance. There was good reason for this supposition. or Mayor Joe, as he was called - had Joe Dambrowski been _elected after campaigning against automobile gas emission, and the sewage pollution in the Missatonic River that ran past Saddleboro. He also banned DDT. He said DDT was a hydrocar, bon. It took DDT two hundred thousand years, or a geological age, to break down into safe elements. Because it wvas hard to destroy, it got passed from plant to fish, chicken, and man. Joe funds from the state and town and built a sew- Dambrowski got age-disposal plant. He also walked to work instead of using hisautomobile to avoid putting carbon dioxide into the air, and had organized the children to find every can in town that contained DDT. After that everyone agreed that the river was clearer, the birds sang louder, and the air was much sweeter And then on April 29, Tony observed the male in Saddleboro. robin arriving to the Mayor's yard. On May 3 the bird was on his way to becoming the famous Cock Robin of Saddleboro. This was when his mate started building a nest in the Mayor's Stet- son hat, which he had absent-mindedly left on his front porch. t O hurried Mayor the 6 "Providence!" the newspaper office to tell David Lowenthal editor of the Patent Reader. The Mayor saw the robin as a solution to the Clean Environment Party's problems. He and the editor had been trying to think up a new gimmick to promote the Mayor in the autumn elections. The Stetson hat they had used for an image four years ago was a town joke now, and they wanted something fresh. Here it was Cock Robin in that old hat! The next morning the paper carried a picture of the grinning Mayor pointing to the grasses in his Stetson. The caption read "COCK ROBIN HAS PICKED Dambrowski, the man who is responsible for Saddleboro's unpolluted water and air." A story that followed quoted the Mayor as saying he would not wear his Stetson again until the bird's nest was done, and the baby robins were flying in the "clean air of Saddleboro" Every day the Mayor told the dwellers of the town about the Cock Robin and his nest. The people of the town were going to have picnic on the day when baby robins would appear but a one morning the robin was found dead. 3) For the lates a hadn't cha b had got fe had increa C had not b 4) Saddleboro a the camp b the Mayd in the tow c people d because 5) The pair a in the in the 6 on the in the 6) The wor U a post b a mot somet an eld 7) On disa a surpr b angr disaI glad 2 Gr LT 1) tenses Re 2) Saddleb (P form Progres 1) Bef (du ... into year. ?) To1 Izzy, 3) To hpd (C boro be sects 2) For statements 1-7, choose the correct alternative (a, b, or d) to complete them. C 1) Tony made his notes because a he loved birds. .. b he did his research. c his elder brother had asked him to make them. he wanted his brother to praise him. 2) In his notes Tony wrote a everything that was connected with the environment of the ... town. b about his walks around the town. c everything usual and unusual that happened in his life. d about the streets and yards of Saddleboro.G For the latest period the number of robins E hadn't changed. b had got fewer. C had increased Q had not been counted by anyone. 4) Saddleboro was considered a model town because ... a the campaign against gas emission was a success. b the Mayor did a lot to improve the environmental situation in the town. O people didn`t use their cars but walked to work. because people did not use DDT. d 5) The pair of robins made a nest ... in the Mayor's garden. b in the tree. C on the Mayor's house. d in the Mayor's hat. 6) The word "gimmick" in paragraph 6 means ... a poster. b a motto. ○ something unusual to draw people's attention. d an election programme. 7) On discovering a nest, the Mayor was ... a surprised b angry. disappointed. C d glad.