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Dan Bebber is a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter in Britain. He says research has shown that wild plants and animals are moving toward Earth's North and South poles as the planet warms.

Mr Bebber wanted to know if the same thing was happening with organisms that attack agricultural crops. He examined reports of first sightings of new insects and diseases around the world. The records came from CABI - the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International. He says the group began collecting information from developing and industrialized countries years ago.

Dan Bebber and his research team studied 612 different organisms - from viruses and bacteria to insects like beetles and butterflies. They found that since 1960, crop pests and diseases have been moving toward the poles at an average rate of about 3 kilometers each year. Mr Bebber says this puts the most productive farmland in the world in danger.

"As new species of pests and diseases evolve and potentially the environment for them becomes more _ at higher latitudes, the pressure on the breadbaskets of the world is going to increase."

Farmers face other threats. Invasive species passed through trade are also causing problems. Gene Kritsky is an Entomologist at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio. He specialises in the study of insects. He says climate change may improve conditions for some invasive species.

"It means that species in other parts of the world that might do well in warmer temperatures can now do well in the breadbasket of America."

Another Entomologist Christian Krupke of Purdue University says the effects of these changes will depend very much on the crop, the insect and the disease. But he says the research is a warning sign that people should care about climate change and do something about it.
1. Who is Dan Bebber?
2. Who does he research for?
3. What is he researching?
4. And?
5. How many organisms did he study?
6. How far have they been moving?
7. What other challenges are farmers facing?
8. Why are they invading?
9. Who are the two entomologists mentioned?
10. How does Christian feel about the research?

Numbered answers:
1. a senior researcher
2. University of Exeter
3. to see if wild plants and animals are moving toward Earth's North and South poles as the planet warms.
4. he found they were
5. 612
6. 3 km per year
7. Invasive species
8. they do well in those temperatures
9. Gene Kritsky and Christian Krupke
10. he feels like it's a warning sign

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CHAPTER XXII

IN A SNAKES' DEN

"Just in time, and no mistake," remarked Songbird as he surveyed the scene outside. "No use of talking, when it rains down here, it rains!"

"Well, a rainstorm isn't a picnic party," returned Tom. "I wouldn't care so much if I wasn't so anxious to hear from Sam and Dick."

"Dot is vot ve all vonts," broke in Hans.

They crouched in the back of the shelter, so that the rain might not drive down upon them. It was a steady downpour for half an hour, when it began to slacken up, and the sun looked as if it might break through the clouds once more.

"We won't be detained so long, after all!" cried Fred.

"I am just as well satisfied," began Tom, and then gave a jump. "Boys, look there! Did you ever see anything like it?"

They looked in the direction pointed out, and each one sprang up as if he had received an electric shock, while Wags began to bark furiously. And small wonder, for directly in front of the shelter was a collection of snakes numbering at least thirty or forty. They were black, brown and green in color and from two to four feet in length. Some were lying flat, while others were curled up in various attitudes.

"Snakes!" faltered Fred. "And what a lot of them!"

"Dere ain't no choke apout dis!" gasped Hans, his eyes almost as big as saucers. "Vot shall ve do?"

"Get your pistols, boys!" came from Songbird, and he drew his weapon.
1. What were people seeking shelter from?
2. How long did the storm last?
3. Who was Tom waiting to get word from?
4. Who talks with a German accent?
5. Where did the group hunker down?
6. In the front of the shelter?
7. Where then?
8. Why?
9. What did they discover outside after the rain?
10. Did the German think it was funny?
11. What did his eyes become as large as?
12. What did he ask the group?
13. What was the suggestion?
14. Who suggested that?
15. How many snakes were there?
16. Were they all 20 feel in length?
17. How big were they?
18. What was a coloring of one?
19. and others?
20. Were they horizontal with the ground?

Numbered answers:
1. the rain
2. half an hour
3. Sam and Dick."
4. Hans.
5. the shelter,
6. no
7. the back
8. so that the rain might not drive down upon them.
9. snakes
10. no
11. saucers.
12. "Vot shall ve do?"
13. to get their pistols
14. Songbird
15. at least thirty or forty.
16. no
17. two to four feet
18. black
19. brown
20. Some were

Question:
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BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal charter since 1927, has produced television programmes from its own since 1932, although the start of its regular service of television broadcasts is dated to 2 November 1936.

The domestic TV BBC television channels are broadcast without any commercial advertising and collectively they account for more than 30% of all UK viewing. The services are funded by a television licence.

The BBC operates several television networks, television stations (although there is generally very little distinction between the two terms in the UK), and related programming services in the United Kingdom. As well as being a broadcaster, the corporation also produces a large number of its own programmes in-house, thereby ranking as one of the world's largest television production companies.

Baird Television Ltd. made Britain's first television broadcast, on 30 September 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London, via the BBC's London transmitter, using the electromechanical system pioneered by John Logie Baird. This system used a vertically-scanned image of 30 lines just enough resolution for a close-up of one person, and with a bandwidth low enough to use existing radio transmitters. Simultaneous transmission of sound and picture was achieved on 30 March 1930, by using the BBC's new twin transmitter at Brookmans Park. By late 1930, 30 minutes of morning programmes were broadcast Monday to Friday, and 30 minutes at midnight on Tuesdays and Fridays, after BBC radio went off the air. Baird broadcasts via the BBC continued until June 1932.
1. When was Britain's first television broadcast?
2. When was the BBC founded?
3. How are their shows funded?
4. Where is Baird Television Ltd broadcasted from?
5. Where is the studio located?
6. When did they stop stop broadcasting through the BBC?
7. Is there a major difference between television networks and television stations?
8. When did they start using sound and picture?
9. Which days of the week broadcasted midnight programs?
10. Where was the transmitter located?
11. What type of transmitter was it?
Numbered answers:
1. 2 November 1936.
2. 1927
3. by a television licence.
4. from its studio
5. in Long Acre
6. until June 1932
7. there is little distinction
8. on 30 March 1930
9. Tuesdays and Fridays
10. Brookmans Park
11. a twin transmitter