question 1

Fill in the gaps, the first letter and a clue are given.

There were r (about, nearly) 47,000,000 pets in France in the year 2000.
At l (minimum) 500,000 Florida tortoises have been released in the sewer system, ponds and streams, where they have destroyed the ecosystems.
Pets have s (regularly) taken a place greater and greater in our society in the last 30 years. One of their m (most important) roles is played with the lonely, the sick or the disabled. France accommodates s (a little) more than 16,000,000 dogs and cats.
One o (remarkable) assessment is that 100,000 cats and dogs are abandoned each year.

The government wishes to make pet owners more r (sure, you can count on it), preventing this h (very large, enormous) abandonment phenomenon. It’s one of their c (leading) goals concerning pet’s health. To a certain e (up to a point, partially), ignorance of pet needs (before its acquisition) is the major plague. On the w (generally speaking), pet owners are fortunately very trustworthy people, who have their pet’s interest at heart and wish to provide it care as s (appropriate) as they can.


D'après MINISTERE DE L'ALIMENTATION, DE L'AGRICULTURE, DE LA PECHE ET DE LA RURALITE. Une politique affirmée en faveur des animaux de compagnie [en-ligne], 26.01.2005 [http://www.agriculture.gouv.fr/spip/leministere.lesecretairedetat.communiquesdepresse_a4351.html]
question 2

Link words.
Choose the suitable word amongst the list given.

The ECG enables the heart activity to be monitored, improving the whole anaesthesia monitoring.
New imaging techniques, tomography and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), are developing in the veterinary world. They can be very effective in diagnosing some kind of lesions such as tumors, , their price is a serious drawback, as well as their geographical availability. they have to be prescripted wisely, since their respective indications are not always identical.
They are much more precise than radiography, of that, they are not able to detect lesions that are too little .
X-ray and ultrasound imaging, techniques more commonly used in vet surgeries, are to remain for a long time. As it were, the ultrasound is liable to expand more and more.
As regards state-of-the-art imaging techniques, scintigraphy, they are still rarely used by vets nowadays. …. race or sport horses are not unlikely to benefit from them.
NB: state-of-the-art = advanced

question 3

Match each line with its fellow in their opposite column.


NB: off-center= mal cadré, pin= broche, WBC= white blood cell