Question

Dear Dara

Hope all’s well with you. You must (a) _____________ this new wildlife show on XTV. You’ll just love it! I enjoyed reading your letter about pandas. Well, I’ve just (b) _____ this programme on alligators. It was (c) _______________.

I (d) ______________ alligators were so clever. Did you know that if an alligator looks at you and grins, it actually wants to eat you? The alligator’s smile (e) _____________ by its peculiar lower jaw that turns up at the rear.

How does the alligator manage to eat an animal-feathers and bones and all (f) _______ getting slightly sick? Easy. You could too if you had a double stomach! In the alligator’s first stomach or crop, the food is softened to prepare it for digestion in the second stomach.

When the alligator gets hungry, it does not have to go looking for its prey-the prey comes to it. It lies (g) _______________ still that the passing animals mistake it for a log floating on water. When an animal comes a little too close to the log- snap!

Do keep in touch. It’s (h) __________ turn to tell me about another animal. Do convey my regards to all at home.

Yours lovingly

Hannah

a) i) have watched ii) watch iii) watched iv) had watched

b) i) watched ii) watches iii) watch iv) be watching

c) i) fascinated ii) fascinating iii) fascinate iv) fascination

d) i) do not know ii) used to know iii) did not know iv) would know

e) i) caused ii) are caused iii) causes iv) is caused

f) i) without ii) from iii) with iv) for

g) i) yet ii) such iii) so iv) very

h) i) your ii) my iii) new iv) our

Answer 1

Answer:

have watched

be watching

fascinating

did not know

are caused

without

yet

my