Last year Gladys Kalema became the Ugandan Wildlife Service's chief and only vet after (1) qualifying for the Royal Veterinary College in London. She was the first person to fill the post for 30 years and at the age of 26, easily the youngest.

            If Gladys did nothing else, caring for the world's (2) surviving population of 650 gorillas would alone justify her wages. Since the 1970s, gorillas have (3) suffered severely from war and poaching. Now for $150 each, tourists can be led through the forest and come within five meters of gorilla – no closer, for (4) fear of transmitting diseases such as measles and flu.

            The gorillas here make a small but viable population. (5) Elsewhere in the national parks the usual animals, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, are either not there or present in insignificant numbers which are dangerously out of (6) balance with the creatures around them. If Uganda stays calm, wildlife may, in (7) time, return by itself. But Gladys believes the country cannot wait. Animals must be brought in to swell tourism and provide (8) funds to expand her work.

            Despite her difficulties, Gladys feels more useful and fulfilled than she would be anywhere else. "At this moment, my friends from vet school are reading the best way to (9) treat a cat or dog, and here am I planning to translocate elephants. In my small (10) way I am part of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of my country."

1. A. leaving               B. qualifying               C. graduating              D. passing

2. A. living                  B. surviving                C. continuing              D. lasting

3. A. endured              B. harmed                   C. died                        D. suffered

4. A. risk                     B. fear                         C. fright                      D. danger

5. A. Somewhere        B. Anywhere               C. Elsewhere               D. Nowhere

6. A. balance               B. relation                   C. comparison                   D. equality

7. A. terms                  B. years                       C. ages                       D. time

8. A. figures                B. funds                      C. accounts                 D. savings

9. A. treat                    B. prescribe                C. heal                         D. operate

10. A. means               B. manner                   C. method                   D. way