I ASKED MY SISTER TO TELL ME WHAT SHE _________ AT THE MUSEUM.A. HAD...

15: I asked my sister to tell me what she _________ at the museum.

A. had seen

B. has seen

C. had been seeing

D. was seeing

IV. Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the

following passage.

Every ten minutes, one kind of animal, plant, or insect dies (16)________ for ever. If

nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become

(17)________ twenty years from now.

The seas are in (18) ________ . They are being filled with poison: industrial and nuclear

(19)________ , chemical fertilizers and pesticides, sewage. The Mediterranean is already

nearly dead: the North Sea is following. If nothing is done about it, one day soon nothing

will be able to live in the seas.

The tropical rain forests, which are the (20)________ of half the earth’s living things

(including many rare animals and plants), are being destroyed. If nothing is done about it,

they will have disappeared in twenty years. The (21) ________ on the world’s climate – and

on our agriculture and food supplies – will be disastrous.

Fortunately, somebody is trying to do something about it. In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund

was (22) ________ – a small group of people who wanted to raise money to save animals

and plants from extinction.

Today, the World Wildlife Fund is a large international organization. It has raised over $35

million for conservation projects, and has created or given (23) ________ to National Parks

in five continents. It has helped 30 mammals and birds – including the tiger – to

(24)________ . Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start. If more people give more money –

and if more governments wake up to what is happening – perhaps the World Wildlife Fund

will be able to help us to avoid the disaster that (25)________ the natural world, and all of

us will be with it.