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7. Were I (know) the answer, I (tell) you right away.PART THREE: READINGA. Read the passage and then decide which word (A, B, C, or D) best fits each space. (10 points)WHALINGRock 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 theInuit people of Greenland and North America.Whaling became big business from the seventh century as the (3) ________ for whalebone andwhale oil rose, and humpback and sperm whales were hunted in (4) ________ large numbers. Butjust as stocks of these species began to fall, the explosive harpoon-gun was (5) ________. Thisweapon, together with the development of steam-power ships, (6) ________ the whalers to huntthe fast-moving fin and blue whales.In 1905 the whaling (7) ________ moved to the waters of Antarctica. The introduction ofmassive 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 wasestablished to maintain the declining whale populations. Quotas were (9) ________ but thesewere often (10)________ and numbers continued to fall. Hunting of many species continued until1986 when the IWC finally responded to international pressure and a ban on commercial whalingwas introduced.