Упр.2 Юнит 1.14 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 11 класс

Read the article and choose the correct word (1–12).

Animal talk

Have you ever seen bees dancing, gorillas sticking out their tongues or horses rubbing noses? Well, you might be surprised to learn that these are not simply things they do to 0) ______ themselves or visitors at the zoo! They are actually very important 1) ______ of communication. So, how exactly do animals use the different senses in order to speak to one another?

SMELL

The sense of smell is the most basic way in which even the simplest of creatures communicate. Many animals, including humans, 2) ______ scents to attract others to them for reproduction, to keep 3) ______ predators or to attract prey, whereas others, such as ants, leave scents to show others where to find food. Sometimes, how these scents are detected can be quite incredible. Snakes, for example, use their tongues to pick up scent in the air, whereas sharks can detect blood in the ocean about one mile away!

SIGHT

Many animals 4) ______ wide use of body language in order to get their message 5) ______. A female rabbit, for example, shows the white underside of her tail to tell her young to follow her to the safety of the burrow. In the same 6) ______, bees perform a complicated dance to communicate the direction and distance of a food 7) ______, while a blowfish blows up like a balloon to scare away predators. Meanwhile, gorillas stick out their tongues to show anger!

TOUCH

It’s not just humans that 8) ______ hands when they meet – chimpanzees also greet one another by touching hands. Other animals use the sense of touch in order to show their feelings 9) ______ one another. To show affection, for example, elephants link their trunks together, while horses rub noses and giraffes press their necks together.

SOUND

We’ve all enjoyed waking 10) ______ to the lovely sound of birds singing, but birds are not the only animals that use the sense of sound to communicate. The world’s largest mammal, the whale, for example, has a complicated repertoire of low-frequency songs to communicate to others where they are and where there is food, sometimes 11) ______ hundreds of kilometres. In fact, all sorts of animals use sound to speak in different ways. Elephants, for instance, trumpet in 12) ______ of excitement or danger, male grasshoppers rub their hind legs over their wings to attract females and snakes and crocodiles hiss loudly to ward off intruders.