EMPOWER B2 DESCRIBING CHANGES

Despite news reports on burglaries, crime rate is slowly _______________.

• 
  increasing

• being lost

• 
  preserving

• decreasing

Nothing can be done about the ____________ of the last black rhyno.

• disappearing

• 
  disappearance

• disappeared

• appearing

Less than 50 people speak Andean Quechua these days. There's no doubt it will soon _____________.

• 
  preserve

• decline

• 
  die out

• 
  

  decline

  
  

Most people believe that the _____________ of dead languages is something almost impossible.

• 
  revival

• disappearance

• 
  preservation

• 
  deterioration

Unfortunately, some of the Nazca Lines _______ and are threatened by human activity.

• could revive

• has decreased

• aren't well preserved

• goes on deteriorating

Sadly, much of the traditional knowledge of medicinal plants _______ when elders in indigenous communities pass away.

• hasn't decreased

• is lost

• could revive

• hasn't disappeared

With proper conservation efforts, the population of endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkeys _______.

• is lost

• has completely died out

• could revive

• has decreased

Thankfully, the traditional art of weaving colorful textiles _______ from Peru's Andean communities.

• has declined

• hasn't disappeared

• is lost

• isn't well preserved