English Entrance Selective Exam 2 Copy

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[1] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[2] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[3] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[4] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[5] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[6] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

You are going to read an article about A Ferret. Seven sentences have been removed from the article.

Choose from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap (1-7).

There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

The last known live black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) in Kansas was spotted on December 31, 1957, near the town of Studley. (1)_______________________ The reintroduction marked the start of an experimental initiative that we hope will enable ferrets to return to the Kansas plains.
The tale started in October 2005, when a group of ranchers in Logan County contacted the Fish and Wildlife Service with the intention of offering their ranchlands for ferret recovery. (2)________________________ After all, ferrets rely on prairie dogs (Cynomys sp.) for survival, and many people have worked hard to eradicate prairie dogs during the past century. In reality, a 1901 Kansas statute allows townships to compel prairie dog removal, with or without the agreement of the landowner. Some counties, like Logan, have acquired this power at the county level.

(3)_________________________ It is a considerably smaller region than conventional ferret release locations in northern or western states, which generally include tens of thousands of acres of federal or tribal property. Many of those locations, however, have been infected with sylvatic plague, an imported illness that kills both prairie dogs and ferrets. 

(4)____________________________ Another important factor was the possibility of establishing a healing partnership based solely on privately held property, including land owned by The Nature Conservancy.

As anticipated, our reintroduction strategy was greeted with considerable opposition in the local population. Many individuals were opposed to anything that might result in uncontrolled prairie dog populations. (5)______________________________

We addressed one issue by doing this operation under an experimental recovery permit, with the Service bearing responsibility for any ferrets killed inadvertently. The prairie dog maintenance problem is more challenging, but a portion of the proposal includes a combination of government and private funds to help landowners around ferret release locations with prairie dog management. (6)_________________ We and our collaborators are prepared to kill some prairie dogs in order to maintain a core complex large enough to sustain ferrets.

In December 2007, we learned that a limited number of ferrets were still available for release in Kansas provided we could complete the necessary preparations in time. (7)___________________The animals were raised at three different breeding facilities in the United States and one in Canada before being “finished” in outdoor pre-conditioning pens at the Service’s National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Wellington, Colorado, where they learned to hunt prairie dogs on their own.

Using the following options, Fill the Gap ___[7] ___ ?

1. We knew we had chosen a good location when two agitated prairie dogs popped out of that same hole and raced off between onlookers’ feet to find a safer refuge.
2. Ferrets returned to Kansas almost 50 years later, on December 18, 2007.
3. A vehicle transporting 24 captive-bred black-footed ferrets departed northeast Colorado for Kansas on December 18 after a flurry of activity and contacts. 
4. “It’s a sad reality that if you want to preserve prairie dogs, you have to be prepared to kill some,” one of our colleagues pointed out.
5. We assessed the environment on our cooperators’ prairie dog complexes and discovered that it has extremely high-quality habitat for black-footed ferrets.
6. There were also concerns about what an endangered species could imply for the local community.
7. Our enthusiasm for this idea was tempered by a fair dose of skepticism.
8. The lack of plague in local animals was a significant benefit of the Kansas location.

• Details in lines 1 to 9 suggest that, while “Sorting the wash” (line 1), the speaker experiences feelings of

• The image evoked by the word “paddling” (line 8) is reinforced by the poet through the use of the word

• This poem focuses on a parent’s

• In the quotation “in the eye of the hurricane, she allowed herself to believe once
  again in silence” (lines 11 to 12), the writer is

• The imagery in lines 13 to 18 most strongly emphasizes the element of

• The detail “she laboured to erase the railway from her life” (lines 20 to 21) takes on
  added meaning later in the story when Gertrude

• The ideas presented in lines 33 to 42 suggest that the train resembles

• The story concludes with a sense of Gertrude’s