Question text
Two Creatures of the Past – Mammoths and Mastodons
For questions 1-12, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each space. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
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A far |
B distant |
C remote |
D distinct |
The elephant has
some (0)...B.....relatives called mammoths, which lived in the
Stone Age. More than 15,000 years ago people painted pictures of them on cave
walls. Then, astonishingly, in 1799, a man walking along the banks of the River
Lena in Siberia Correct
The correct answer is: made
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startling discovery. Peering into a wall of ice, he saw a shape of a massive,
hairy mammoth, apparently looking out at him. He immediately ran Correct
The correct answer is: away
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terror, but several days later he Correct
The correct answer is: found
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courage to return and cut the mammoth’s tusks – its two enormous teeth – out of
the ice to sell them. Mammoth tusks are the biggest teeth of any known
creature, some Correct
The correct answer is: reaching
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length of five metres. These tusks were put to good use, protecting the
mammoths’ young from other animals, and brushing away snow.
To most of us, mammoths
are probably the most Correct
The correct answer is: familiar
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the elephant’s extinct relatives, but thousands of years earlier, in the
woodlands of eastern North America, lived another of the elephant’s relatives
called the mastodon. Like mammoths, mastodons may also have had a hairy coat,
but Correct
The correct answer is: while
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mainly ate grass on the plains, mastodons Correct
The correct answer is: preferred
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eat twigs and leaves.
We do not know why
mastodons Correct
The correct answer is: became
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However, computer studies of the decrease in mammoth Correct
The correct answer is: numbers
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that it was a particular Correct
The correct answer is: combination
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over-hunting by humans, and Correct
The correct answer is: changes
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the climate at that time which Correct
The correct answer is: led
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their disappearance.