- You will hear a news item once. It is about 1.5 minutes long.
- Then 5 questions will appear.
- Choose the best way to complete each statement from the drop-down menu.
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Correct Answer: efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade.
Why this is correct: The report describes anti-corruption measures and a declaration aimed at tackling illegal wildlife trade.
Why the other options are wrong:
- options for reading glasses.: Reading glasses are unrelated to this conference and wildlife-crime declaration.
- life on Mars.: Mars is not discussed; the report concerns wildlife trade.
- the launch of a drug legalisation campaign.: Drug trafficking is mentioned as a related criminal network, not a drug legalisation campaign.
Correct Answer: corruption.
Why this is correct: The report begins by naming corruption as a key driver of illegal wildlife trade. This is the factor explicitly identified in the question's terms.
Why the other options are wrong:
- lack of awareness.: Lack of awareness is not the factor named as a key driver in the report's opening.
- politics.: Political leaders take part in the conference, but politics itself is not identified as the key driver.
- high demand.: The declaration discusses addressing demand later, but the factor explicitly named as a key driver is corruption.
Correct Answer: detrimental economic, environmental, security and social impacts.
Why this is correct: The representatives recognized detrimental economic, environmental, security and social impacts from illegal wildlife trade.
Why the other options are wrong:
- no effect on protected species.: The report describes protected-species declines and threats of extinction, contradicting no effect.
- only positive effects on tourism.: The stated impacts are detrimental, not exclusively positive effects on tourism.
- no effect on cross-border security.: The declaration describes security threats and cross-border incursions, contradicting no effect on cross-border security.
Correct Answer: organized crime.
Why this is correct: The declaration explicitly asks governments and business to treat the illegal trade as organized crime.
Why the other options are wrong:
- petty crime.: The report describes sophisticated industrial-scale activity and calls it organized crime, not petty crime.
- terrorism.: Terrorism is not the classification requested in the reported declaration.
- a simple transport mistake.: Sophisticated criminal activity is not described as a simple transport mistake.
Correct Answer: regional and national security.
Why this is correct: The declaration says illegal wildlife trade threatens regional and national security and connects it with cross-border criminal networks.
Why the other options are wrong:
- local bus schedules.: Local bus schedules are not the threat identified in this declaration.
- private internet passwords.: Private internet passwords are not discussed in this wildlife-trade declaration.
- national election deadlines.: National election deadlines are not identified as the threat.
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