Question

Ayudenme estoy en la clase de ingles y nesesito hacer esta pregunta ahora mismo en 20 minutos. porfa.

What is each speaker’s attitude?

By Terry Tempest Williams



1 Not far from the Great Salt Lake is the municipal dump. Acres of trash heaped high. Depending on your frame of mind, it is either an olfactory 1 fright show or a sociological goldmine. Either way, it is best to visit in winter.
2 For the past few years, when the Christmas Bird Count comes around, I seem to be relegated to the landfill. The local Audubon hierarchy tell me I am sent there because I know gulls. The truth lies deeper. It’s an under-the-table favor. I am sent to the dump because secretly they know I like it.
3 As far as birding goes, there’s often no place better. Our urban wastelands are becoming wildlife’s last stand. The great frontier. We’ve moved them out of town like all other “low-income tenants.”
4 The dump where I count birds for Christmas used to have cattails – but I can’t remember them. A few have popped up below the hill again, in spite of bulldozers, providing critical cover for coots, mallards, and a variety of other waterfowl. I’ve seen herons standing by and once a snowy egret, but for the most part, the habitat is now garbage, perfect for starlings and gulls.
5 I like to sit on the piles of unbroken Hefties, black bubbles of sanitation. It provides comfort with a view. Thousands of starlings cover refuse with their feet. Everywhere I look– feathered trash. The starlings gorge themselves, bumping into each other like drunks. They are not discretionary. They’ll eat anything, just like us. Three starlings picked a turkey carcass clean. Afterward, they crawled inside and wore it as a helmet. A carcass with six legs walking around – you have to be sharp counting birds at the dump.
6 I admire starlings’ remarkable adaptability. Home is everywhere. I’ve seen them nesting under awnings on New York’s Fifth Avenue, as well as inside aspen trunks in the Teton wilderness. Over 50 percent of their diet is insects. They are the most effective predators against the clover weevil in America.
7 Starlings are also quite beautiful if looked at with beginner’s eyes. In autumn and winter, their plumage appears speckled, unkempt. But by spring, the lighter tips of their feathers have been worn away, leaving them with a black, glossy plumage, glistening iridescences.
8 Inevitably, students at the museum will describe an elegant, black bird with flashes of green, pink and purple.
9 “About this big,” they say (holding their hands about seven inches apart vertically).
10 “With a bright yellow bill. What is it?”
11 “A starling,” I answer.
12 What follows is a dejected look flushed with embarrassment.
13 “Is that all?”
14 The name precedes the bird.
15 I understand it. When I’m out at the dump with starlings, I don’t want to like them. They are common. They are aggressive, and they behave poorly, crowding out other birds. When a harrier 2 happens to cross over from the marsh, they swarm him. He disappears. They want their trash to themselves.
16 Perhaps we project on to starlings that which we deplore in ourselves: our numbers, our aggressions, our greed, and our cruelty. Like starlings, we are taking over the world.
17 The parallels continue. Starlings forage by day in open country competing with native species such as bluebirds for food. They drive them out. In late afternoon, they return in small groups to nest elsewhere, competing with cavity nesters such as clickers, martins, tree swallows, and chickadees. Once again, they move in on other birds.
18 Starlings are sophisticated mimics singing songs of bobwhites, killdeer, flickers, and phoebes. Their flocks drape bare branches in spring with choruses of chatters, creeks, and coos. Like any good imposter, they confuse the boundaries. They lie.
19 What is the impact of such a species on the land? Quite simply, a loss of diversity. What makes our relationship to starlings even more curious is that we loathe them, calling in exterminators because we fear disease, yet we do everything within our power to encourage them as we systematically erase the specialized habitats of specialized birds. I have yet to see a snowy egret spearing a bagel.
20 The man who wanted Shakespeare’s birds 3 flying in Central Park and altruistically 4 brought starlings to America from England, is not to blame. We are – for creating more and more habitat for a bird we despise. Perhaps the only value in the multitudes of starlings we have garnished is that in some small way they allow us to comprehend what vast flocks of birds must have felt like.
teal – a small duck


“There Will Come Soft Rains”

By Sara Teasdale

1 There will come soft rains and the smell of ground
2 And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
3 And frogs in the pools singing at night,
4 And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
5 Robins will wear their feathery fire
6 Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

Answer 1

Respuesta:

¿Cuál es la actitud de cada orador?

Por Terry Tempest Williams

1 No muy lejos del Gran Lago Salado se encuentra el basurero municipal. Acres de basura amontonados. Dependiendo de su estado de ánimo, es un espectáculo olfativo de 1 susto o una mina de oro sociológica. De cualquier manera, es mejor visitarlo en invierno.

2 Durante los últimos años, cuando llega el Conteo Navideño de Aves, parece que estoy relegado al vertedero. La jerarquía local de Audubon me dice que me enviaron allí porque conozco gaviotas. La verdad es más profunda. Es un favor debajo de la mesa. Me envían al vertedero porque secretamente saben que me gusta.

3 En lo que respecta a la observación de aves, a menudo no hay mejor lugar. Nuestros páramos urbanos se están convirtiendo en la última resistencia de la vida silvestre. La gran frontera Los hemos mudado de la ciudad como todos los demás "inquilinos de bajos ingresos".

4 El basurero donde cuento pájaros para Navidad solía tener espadañas, pero no las recuerdo. Algunos han aparecido nuevamente debajo de la colina, a pesar de las excavadoras, proporcionando cobertura crítica para fochas, patos silvestres y una variedad de otras aves acuáticas. He visto garzas esperando y una vez una garceta nevada, pero en su mayor parte, el hábitat ahora es basura, perfecto para estorninos y gaviotas.

5 Me gusta sentarme en las pilas de Hefties ininterrumpidos, burbujas negras de saneamiento. Proporciona comodidad con una vista. Miles de estorninos cubren basura con sus pies. A donde quiera que mire, basura emplumada. Los estorninos se atiborran, chocando entre sí como borrachos. No son discrecionales. Comerán cualquier cosa, como nosotros. Tres estorninos recogieron un cadáver de pavo limpio. Después, se metieron dentro y lo usaron como un casco. Un cadáver con seis patas caminando: debes ser agudo contando pájaros en el basurero.

6 Admiro la notable adaptabilidad de los estorninos. El hogar está en todas partes. Los he visto anidar bajo toldos en la Quinta Avenida de Nueva York, así como dentro de troncos de álamo temblón en el desierto de Teton. Más del 50 por ciento de su dieta son insectos. Son los depredadores más efectivos contra el gorgojo del trébol en Estados Unidos.

7 Los estorninos también son bastante hermosos si se miran con ojos de principiante. En otoño e invierno, su plumaje aparece manchado, descuidado. Pero para la primavera, las puntas más claras de sus plumas se han desgastado, dejándolas con un plumaje negro y brillante, relucientes iridiscencias.

8 Inevitablemente, los estudiantes en el museo describirán un elegante pájaro negro con destellos de verde, rosa y morado.

9 "Acerca de este grande", dicen (sosteniendo sus manos separadas aproximadamente siete pulgadas verticalmente).

10 “Con un pico amarillo brillante. ¿Qué es?"

11 "Un estornino", respondo.

12 Lo que sigue es una mirada abatida, sonrojada de vergüenza.

13 "¿Eso es todo?"

14 El nombre precede al pájaro.

15 Lo entiendo. Cuando estoy en el basurero con estorninos, no quiero que me gusten. Son comunes. Son agresivos y se comportan mal, desplazando a otras aves. Cuando un corredor de cross 2 cruza el pantano, lo invaden. El desaparece. Quieren su basura para ellos.

Answer 2

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han pasdo 84 anos

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