Read the text below. Choose from (A–H) the one which best fits each space (17–22). There are two choices you do not need to use.

Why are Zebras Striped?

When zebras stick together in a herd, the pattern of their stripes blend together with the stripes of the zebras around them. This is confusing to a lion! All it can see is a large, moving, striped mass. The lion has trouble picking out individual zebras and it’s harder still for the lion to recognize (17) ______ ! Each zebra pattern is unique like a fingerprint. Like a fingerprint (18) ______ and no two zebras are exactly alike. What is truly amazing is (19) ______ from their body stripe! There are several species classified according to variations in stripe patterns. The mountain zebra has silver-white stripes with black markings (20) ______ except for the stomach and the inner thighs. Plains zebras are pale yellow with broad black stripes. Do you know that people of Africa think of zebras as black animals with white stripes (21) ______ as white animals with black stripes! Black stripes or white, the fact remains (22) ______ and are among the fastest and most graceful of runners in the African bush land.

Black stripes or white, the fact remains (22) ______ and are among the fastest and most graceful of runners in the African bush land.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths ...

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

... but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

They (25) ______ writing and singing and ...

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

... and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ .

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe.

Read the text below. For questions (23–32) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Sugababes

The story of the Sugababes starts with two self-confident eight-year-old friends from London who (23) ______ a hatred of maths but loved singing (24) ______ to the radio. Mutya and Keisha then met Siobhan who joined their “gang”. They (25) ______ writing and singing and at fourteen the group (26) ______ their first record deal. Just two years later, when their classmates were studying for their exams, the girls (27) ______ their first album, the incredibly cool One Touch. But it wasn’t as easy as it (28) ______ . The album didn’t get publicity and Siobhan decided to leave the group. Keisha and Mutya advertised for another girl but did not want to (29) ______ the group name. “We wanted someone who could sing and had her own ideas,” they said. That was Heidi. Heidi used to be in the girlband Atomic Kitten but she left because she never quite (30) ______ in. Heidi was desperate to sing live in concerts and do her own writing — and she soon realised that she would never be able to do this in a “manufactured” band. Her love of urban music (31) ______ her the perfect Sugababe. The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

The three became friends as soon as they met and (32) ______ to write and record the huge Angels with Dirty Faces album.

Read the text below. For questions choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

The Beak of the Toucan

Why does the toucan ______ ______ such an enormous beak? The answer, we learned in August, may be that it uses it ______ ______ body temperature. Infrared measurement ______ ______ just before sleep shows that the bird’s long beak — which can grow to ______ ______ of its body size — gets hotter, ______ ______ the bird uses it in the presleep cooling process. At other times, as the external heat rises, so too does the heat of the toucan’s beak, while its core body heat stays the same.

Why does the toucan ______ ______ such an enormous beak?

Read the text below. For questions choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

The Beak of the Toucan

Why does the toucan ______ ______ such an enormous beak? The answer, we learned in August, may be that it uses it ______ ______ body temperature. Infrared measurement ______ ______ just before sleep shows that the bird’s long beak — which can grow to ______ ______ of its body size — gets hotter, ______ ______ the bird uses it in the presleep cooling process. At other times, as the external heat rises, so too does the heat of the toucan’s beak, while its core body heat stays the same.

The answer, we learned in August, may be that it uses it ______ ______ body temperature.

Read the text below. For questions choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

The Beak of the Toucan

Why does the toucan ______ ______ such an enormous beak? The answer, we learned in August, may be that it uses it ______ ______ body temperature. Infrared measurement ______ ______ just before sleep shows that the bird’s long beak — which can grow to ______ ______ of its body size — gets hotter, ______ ______ the bird uses it in the presleep cooling process. At other times, as the external heat rises, so too does the heat of the toucan’s beak, while its core body heat stays the same.

Infrared measurement ______ ______ just before sleep shows that the bird’s long beak...