Comprehension box 2: Australia's unwelcome guests 🇦🇺

1. The word eradicate in par. 4 means to:
b) Get rid of ✔️

2. The main idea of the text is:
a) Many species welcomed to Australia are now pests ✔️

3. After myxomatosis was introduced, Australian authorities tried:
c) Rabbit calicivirus ✔️

4. Cane toads are different from koi because they:
a) Are very poisonous ✔️

5. It is most likely that the effect of koi herpesvirus on native species will be:
c) carefully tested ✔️

6. You could conclude from the text that the writer:
c) cares about native fauna ✔️

7. Which sentence summarises what Par. 3 says about feral animals?
c) They survive by destroying land and native fauna and flora. ✔️

8. Introduced species are called guests because when they came they were:
a) welcome ✔️

9. Rabbits in dry areas survived myxomatosis because:
b) there were fewer mosquitos ✔️

10. It is an opinion, not a fact, that cane toads are:
b) repulsive ✔️

11. The text was written to:
b) Give information ✔️

12. The word retard in Paragraph 6 means to:
c) Change the results ❌

13. Cane toads were a failure because they:
c) Didn't eat the beetles ✔️

14. The pronoun they in Par. 4 refers to:
c) cane toads ✔️