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TSI Reading: Selecting an Appropriate Title for a Passage 8 Views
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The United States destroyed its six-ton stock of confiscated elephant ivory, sending a clear message that the nation will not tolerate the wildlife crime that threatens to wipe out the African elephant and a host of other species around the globe. The destruction of this ivory was witnessed by representatives of African nations and other countries, dozens of leading conservationists, and international media representatives.
The United States accumulated the ivory over the past 25 years, seizing it during undercover investigations of organized smuggling operations or confiscating it at the U.S. border. Although it is difficult to put an exact figure on the number of different elephants this ivory represents, it certainly numbers in the thousands. Prior to being seized, most of this ivory was destined to be sold illegally in the United States or overseas.
An appropriate title for this passage would be
(A)"Techniques Used by the United States to Seize Ivory"
(B)"The Endangerment of the African Elephant"
(C)"United States Sends a Message about Wildlife Crime"
(D)"Methods Used by the U.S. to Destroy Illegal Ivory"
Transcript
- 00:03
Okay second of five in this what's the paragraph all
- 00:06
about style of reading here All right so the question
- 00:09
on this one is an appropriate title for this passage
- 00:13
would be what And moby dick has been taken yet
- 00:16
We've used that Okay for let's Skim the paragraphs here
Full Transcript
- 00:19
The u s right It's six ton soccer Complicated elephant
- 00:21
Everything clear Message nation will not tolerate wildlife crime development
- 00:24
Exact figure an elephant's ivory going sold illegal in the
- 00:27
u s or overseas You know who buys ivory anyway
- 00:31
These days like it's just terrible All right Well let's
- 00:34
think about this It's techniques used to seize it Know
- 00:38
the endangerment notes on about that er the u s
- 00:41
sends a message about wildlife ground that could be it
- 00:43
Yeah we put chuck norris out there to go take
- 00:46
good names Now i know methods used by the u
- 00:48
s tennis or no that'd be like well how burn
- 00:50
into we crush it Do we use it for fertilizer
- 00:53
No Well if we wrote a passage about elephant poaching
- 00:56
we'd probably call it morons who deserve to be tarred
- 00:59
and feathered at least But that's just us because elephants
- 01:03
are cool good title provides information about the entire passage
- 01:06
and the main idea here is that the u s
- 01:08
destroyed its confiscated ivory to draw a hard line against
- 01:11
the wildlife crime Okay so the answer is c yeah
- 01:14
that one all right loser bowl Well the techniques used
- 01:17
by the us to seize ivory and the endangerment of
- 01:19
the african elephant of both supporting details or not what
- 01:22
it's all about pastor doesn't detail the methods to destroy
- 01:25
ivory wouldn't know if they used bonfires or sludge chamber
- 01:28
Yeah and if the latter were the case perhaps cracking
- 01:31
the skulls and taking names of the poachers would be
- 01:34
a better title Maybe we should do that Are we
- 01:36
advocating violence here Our lawyers were saying yes we are 00:01:40.038 --> [endTime] but that's Okay if it's against elephants killers
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