WERE I (KNOW) THE ANSWER, I (TELL) YOU RIGHT AWAY. WERE I (KNOW)...

7. Were I (know) the answer, I (tell) you right away.

PART THREE: READING

A. Read the passage and then decide which word (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space. (10

points)

WHALING

Rock carving suggest that Stone Age people were hunting whales for food as early as 2200 B.C.

Such (1) ________ hunting is still practiced today in a number of (2) ________ including the

Inuit people of Greenland and North America.

Whaling became big business from the seventh century as the (3) ________ for whalebone and

whale oil rose, and humpback and sperm whales were hunted in (4) ________ large numbers. But

just as stocks of these species began to fall, the explosive harpoon-gun was (5) ________. This

weapon, together with the development of steam-power ships, (6) ________ the whalers to hunt

the fast-moving fin and blue whales.

In 1905 the whaling (7) ________ moved to the waters of Antarctica. The introduction of

massive factory ships enabled the whales to be processed at sea. As a result, the blue whale had

(8) ________ disappeared by the 1950s. In 1946 the International Whaling Commission was

established to maintain the declining whale populations. Quotas were (9) ________ but these

were often (10)________ and numbers continued to fall. Hunting of many species continued until

1986 when the IWC finally responded to international pressure and a ban on commercial whaling

was introduced.