LISTENING CHALLENGE QUESTIONS:

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Slowly, through thousands of years, the elephants developed from small creatures with short trunks and tusks into animals so powerful that, at last, they were the ________ of the entire world. Now, they live only in Africa and India, and anyone in other countries who wishes to see one of these animals must either go to a circus or a zoological garden   

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Seals are easily tamed, and soon become fond of their owners. Some fishermen once caught a baby Seal, which they gave to a boy, knowing his love of animals. The strange baby soon made itself at home, and loved to lie in the ________ of the kitchen fire. It knew the voice of its young master, and would follow him like a dog.   

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Nothing was too small, no creature too humble to awaken her sympathy and tenderness. When the stable cat had kittens, Florence was the first to visit them, to fondle the tiny creatures and ________their mother's angry fear. When she walked along the pleasant wood roads of Lea Hurst, the squirrels expected nuts as a matter of course, and could hardly wait for her to give them.   

4. What did Midas use to do in his garden for several hours?   

5. Harold ran so fast he was compared to
a) Leopard
b) Rabbit
c) Dog   

6. Nicholas nearly regretted:
a) Getting too close to a cliff
b) Leaving so early
c) Travelling by himself   

7. She was fortunate in living at a time when the education of women was as comprehensive and exact as that of men; and her father provided her with two learned tutors in his two chaplains, Thomas Harding and John Aylmer. To the latter she seems to have been more particularly given in charge; and the teacher being as zealous as the pupil was diligent, Lady Jane soon gained a thorough acquaintance with Latin and Greek, and also some degree of proficiency in Hebrew, Arabic, Chaldaic, French and Italian.
What language was Lady Jane better at?
a) French
b) Greek
c) Arabic   

8. What is the reader suggesting?
a) We should learn to cook at school
b) We should learn to cook whilst we are young
c) We should learn to do household work at home   

9. What animal is the reader talking about?
a)Bees
b)Pigs
c) Flies   

10. What was the only thing the children enjoyed doing?
a)Leave their nursery
b) Go for a walk
c)Meet Bob   

11. What is the reader talking about?
a) A plant
b) A stone
c) An animal   

12. What sport is the reader talking about?
a) Tennis
b) Baseball
c) Football   

13. According to the reader, what music technique is the most complex?
a) Canon
b) Minuet
c) Fugue   

14. Who thinks the farm will be left unattended if Dad went to Brisbane?
a) The reader
b) Dad
c) The butcher   

15. Which part/s of the plants do/es most often contain their fragrance?