WE MUST HAVE TAKEN THE CAMCORDER AS WE TOOK A CAMCORDER WITH US ON...

10. We must have taken the camcorder as we took a camcorder with us on holiday, but we didn't use it in the end.

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READING COMPREHENSION

Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.

The 12

^th

of August is World Elephant Day, which is an international annual event (1) ________ to the

preservation and protection of the world's elephants. Why is there a day for elephants? The answer can be

found in the fact that this species' population is rapidly (2) ________ , and they need help.

In 1930, there were about 10 million African elephants in the wild. In 1989, when they were added to the

international list of the most (3) ________ species, there were about 600,000 remaining. Elephant numbers

have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An

estimated one hundred African elephants are killed each day by poachers (4) ________ ivory, meat, and body

parts, leaving only 400,000 alive today.

Asian elephants have never been as (5) ________as African ones, and today they are even more endangered.

At the turn of the century, there were an estimated 200,000 Asian elephants. Today there are probably no more

than 40,000 in the wild.