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PART C. READING (35 POINTS)

Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

DOLPHIN TO THE RESCUE

People often claim that humans and animals are not as different as they appear.

For example, dolphins are often (51) ………… with human - or even super-human -

intelligence and also a sort of sympathy with human beings. This (52)…………to dolphins

is not surprising in view of incidents like the (53)…………one, which happened in 1983. A lawyer’s wife was bathing alone from a private beach in Florida. She had only just gone into the water when she was (54)…………off by a strong current. She swallowed water and was beginning to lose (55)…………, wishing desperately that someone would come and rescue her. And she tells how at this moment she was given "a tremendous shove" and found herself (56)…………out of the water. She slowly recovered and turned to thank her

rescuer. But there was no one about, only a pair of dolphins playing and leaping out of the water a few metres offshore.

At this point a man came running up to say that he had seen what he had (57)……

for a dead body being pushed ashore by one of the dolphins. Now this is not an obscure (58)…………of an incident which happened in the dim and (59)…………past. It happened in our own times and was witnessed by a number of (60)………….

For example, dolphins are often (51) ………… with human - or even super-human - intelligence and also a sort of sympathy with human beings.