Task two
A. completion. Circle the correct words to complete the information below.
Today, there are about 1,400 seed banks around the world. These keep seed 
1. (varieties / flavors) from all 2. ( marketplaces / continents) safe in the event of a large 
( -scale / -historic ) global crisis, such as famine. One of the largest seed banksgg lies 
 inside a mountain on Norway’s island of Spitsbergen, just 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole. This is a backup for all the world’s other seed banks.
In 1996, director Cary Fowler commented that the seed bank’s opening ‘’mark a (n) 4. ( solery / historic ) turning point in safeguarding the world’s 5. ( crop / flavor ) diversity.’’ Billions of seeds are now kept there. They are stored in a permanently chilled, earthquake -free zone 120 meters above sea level. This should allow the seeds to remain high and dry, even if the polar ice caps melt.