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Reading and Use of English Part 7

Read questions1 -10 and underline the main idea in
each.
• If you see a word you don ' t understand, and
you think you need to understand it to answer a Which person...
question, try to guess what it means by reading the 1 didn’t immediately realise he’d been injured?
other words around it. 2 was unwilling to injure an animal?

If you have unanswered questions after you y — 3 believes his behaviour caused the attack?
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have read all the texts, scan the texts again Exam 4 gave advice which was ignored?
to find the information you need, rather I adviceI 5 was with people who lacked the knowledge to help
than trying to read them in detail again. 4 him?
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6 was informed that they may have missed an
opportunity?
Work in groups.You are going to read a magazine article 7 was disappointed by the outcome of his encounter?
about people who have been attacked by animals.
Before you read,discuss these questions. 8 thinks he might not have been injured at another time
of day?
• Are there any dangerous wild animals in your country? 9 was happy at first to see the animal which later
• What do you think you should do if you see a attacked him?
dangerous animal? 10 was surprised to eventually escape?

Surviving an animal attack

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A Colin Bristow the fading light, failed to notice the danger. disappear. As an intruder in their fragile
I felt the lightest prick against my middle world, I wanted to avoid causing it any
I was working as a safari guide in
Botswana with four American clients. finger and thought I’d brushed against a harm.I started screaming and waving my
cactus spine. But it was a scorpion! The arms. When he got to about three metres
There was a sudden movement to my left,
and a charging elephant crashed through pain was intense and sudden. By the away,I threw a handful of coffee powder
some small trees less than 20 feet away . time I arrived back at camp, my lips were towards the bear. If he hadn’t turned and
I always brief my clients that you should numb and I was shaking. In the absence of walked off at that moment, we wouldn ’t
never take your eyes off a dangerous qualified medical opinion, my companions have survived.
carried on with their game of cards.
animal or show signs of fear or panic. I D Zebedee Ellis (aged nine)
turned to face it and was immediately The next morning, I showed the sting to I was at a zoo and dinosaur park with
knocked over by one of the clients a local. Mummy and Daddy two years ago.I had
screaming ‘Run, run!’ at the top of his ‘Did you play cards with the others eaten about 400 tons of ice cream and
voice. I landed on my back between the last night?’ now I wanted to see more animals. In a
exposed roots of a large acacia tree. My ‘Course not,’ I replied. ‘I was too ill.’ large open area next to a pond, Daddy
backpack got tangled with one of the roots He raised his eyebrows. Too bad. saw some big fat pelicans, all full of fish.
so that I couldn’t move. The elephant was Scorpion stings are very lucky , my friend.’ ‘There you are!’ he said. ‘Some animals for
standing over me, smashing his thick trunk C Baz Roberts you to annoy. ’
into the roots on either side of my body. On our penultimate night on the Arctic I was very pleased and danced up
Elephants have poor eyesight and this may ice, as we were returning from the Pole,I
have been what saved me. I managed to was just falling asleep when the voice of and down in front of them. Then one big
pelican tried to eat my T-shirt. I think it
free myself from my backpack and I ran one of my travelling companions, Paul,
for my life, hardly daring to believe that the woke me: ‘Guys, there's a bear in the went for me because I was moving around
elephant wasn’t chasing me. camp.I’m serious!’ I leant forward on my so much and that made it nervous, but
B Chris Haslam knees to unzip the tent door. Directly in I really wish it had made some kind of
scratch on my skin that I could show off to
I was camping on a beach in Mexico. front was a polar bear , about ten metres my friends.
It was sunset and I was walking along the away. It heard the sound of my tent zip and
coast looking for firewood when I noticed turned to face me, all 600 kilos or so of him.
a dead cactus which was perfect for the Due to melting ice, the polar bear’s Adapted from the Sunday Times
fire. I bent to lift it and, perhaps because of habitat is under threat and may one day