was very
cry at the same time (9)
the carpark, which was rather (10)
IX. Read the passage, then choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D)
Last year I went to Nepal for three months to work in a hospital. I think it's important to see as much of a
country as you can, but it is difficult to travel around Nepal. The hospital let me have a few days' holiday,
so I decided to go into the jungle and I asked a Nepalese guide, Kamal Rai, to go with me.
We started preparing for the trip at six in the morning and left camp with two elephants carrying our
equipment. It was hot but Kamal made me wear shoes and trousers to protect me from snakes. In the jungle
there was a lot of wildlife, but we were trying to find big cats, especially tigers. We climbed onto the
elephants' backs to get a better view, but it is unusual to find tigers in the afternoon because they sleep in
the heat of the day.
Then, in the distance, we saw a tiger, and Kamal told me to be very quiet. We crept nearer and found a dead
deer, still bleeding. This was the tiger's lunch! Suddenly I started to feel very frightened.
We heard the tiger a second before we saw it. It jumped out like a flash of lightning, five hundred kilos plus
and four meters long. I looked into its eyes and face, and saw right down the animal's throat. It grabbed
Kamal's leg between its teeth, but I managed to pull Kamal away. One of our elephants ran at the tiger and
made it go back into the grass, so we quickly escaped to let the tiger eat its lunch. That night it was
impossible to sleep!
1. The writer went to Nepal
A. for holiday B. for treatment
2. When having a few days off, he
A. the remote villages
C. for business
decided to go into
D. on tour
B. the mountains C, the seaside D. the tropical forest
3. It's difficult to find tigers in the afternoon because
A. they usually sleep at this time of day
B. it's so hot at this time
C. the clephants' backs weren't high enough to get a view D. tigers hardly hunt in the heat of the day
4. The writer started to feel frightened when
A. he saw a tiger
5. The tiger
B. he saw the tiger's lunch C. he crept nearer D. he found a deer
A was like a flash of light
C. jumped out very fast
B. saw them a second before they saw it
D. jumped out of the grass at about four meters.
6. Which of the following is not true according to the passage?
A. Tigers are members of the cat family
B. The writer was made to wear shoes and trousers to protect him from the heat of the day.
C. Kamal narrowly escaped being killed.
It was such a terrible experience that the writer couldn't sleep that night.
Write the complete sentences, using the words given.
Dear Kate