A Choose the correct item.
1 Parrots have colourful ……… all over their bodies.
2 Mammals that give birth to live young are called ……… mammals.
3 Mammals like the platypus that ……… eggs are called monotremes.
4 ……… are birds but they can’t fly.
5 The ……… is the heaviest animal on land.
6 National parks help to ……… animals and their natural habitats.
7 Velociraptors had ……… claws to kill other dinosaurs.
8 Mammals that eat both meat and plants are called ……… .
9 My horse has a long ……… with a thick mane.
10 Sea birds like penguins ……… on fish and small sea creatures.
11 A kangaroo is a marsupial that carries its young in a ……… .
12 The ……… is full of lots of creatures like whales, fish and dolphins.
13 The T-Rex had a long, ……… tail to help it to run fast.
14 The place where animals live is called their natural ……… .
15 Wolves ……… for food in large groups called packs.
16 People kill animals and cause them to become ……… .
17 Animals lose their homes because people ……… trees.
18 We ……… a tiger called Raj. The charity uses our money to look after him in the wild, but he doesn’t belong to us.
19 Hamsters are ……… to keep because they are very clean animals.
20 We ……… a lucky escape when our house caught fire.
B Read the text below. Complete the gaps (1-3) with appropriate words A-F from the box to obtain a grammatically and lexically correct text. Fill in the gaps with appropriate letters. There are three extra words that do not match any of the gaps.
MEERKATS
Meerkats are friendly mammals. They are about 30 cm tall and weigh around 720 grams. But even though they are 1) ………………..……. animals, they are very brave. One meerkat always stands guard while the others 2) ………………..……. for food and it barks loudly if it sees a dangerous animal.
When the other meerkats hear this noise, they 3) ………………..……. back to their holes in the ground to escape. After a while, a brave meerkat goes outside. When it sees that everything is OK, it calls to the other meerkats. Then they all go back outside to look for more food.
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