PART 3: READING COMPREHENSION
Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. (5 pts)
KANGAROOS
The kangaroo is (1)
different types live in all areas of Australia, from cold climate areas and desert plains (2)
tropical rainforests and beaches.
Kangaroos are herbivorous, eating a range of plants and, (3)
Different kangaroo species inhabit different habitats. Some, for example, make nests on the ground while tree-
kangaroo live above the ground. Larger (4)
of the Australia's most iconic animals. Kangaroos of
some cases, fungi.
of kangaroo tend to shelter under trees or in
caves.
Most kangaroos are distinguished from (5)
animals by the way they hop on their
strong back legs. A kangaroo's tail is used to balance while hopping and as a fifth climb when moving slowly.
important to the survival of Australia's indigenous people,
the meat and
Kangaroos have long (6)
have hunted them for tens of thousands of years, using (8)
(7)
the skins. When Europeans arrived in Australia in the late eighteenth century, they too hunted kangaroos for
survival. Kangaroos continue to be used as a resource, but only (9)
controls. Nowadays only the four most abundant species of kangaroo may be commercially harvested for
export, and then only by licensed hunters in accordance (10)
strict government
an approved management plan.