Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.
In Northeast India, there is a war being fought. However, it is not a war between countries or groups of people. It is a war between animal and man. Assam, India is covered in rainforests (24)............. are home to a wide range of wild animals. There are rare monkeys, deer, tigers, and a large number of elephants. Assam had few people in the past, which meant that the animals were left alone in the forest. Nowadays, the population of subsistence farmers is increasing (25)............ These farmers have to make new farm fields just to feed their families. When they begin cutting down the forests, conflict erupts.
In January 2008, villagers in Assam woke up in the middle of the night to a horrible vision. An enormous group of elephants suddenly attacked their village, destroying crops and (26).............. 100 houses. They also killed an elderly man who was asleep at the time. No one would dream of such an attack in the past, (27)............ they are becoming much more common. In Assam alone, hundreds of people and hundreds of endangered elephants have died in this conflict. The government of India cannot find an easy (28)................. to the problem, so villagers continue to take the law into their own hands. They use poisons, traps, and electrical fences to protect their farmland and kill the elephants. The elephants gather together and fight back.
Question 24.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 24 to 28.
In Northeast India, there is a war being fought. However, it is not a war between countries or groups of people. It is a war between animal and man. Assam, India is covered in rainforests (24)............. are home to a wide range of wild animals. There are rare monkeys, deer, tigers, and a large number of elephants. Assam had few people in the past, which meant that the animals were left alone in the forest. Nowadays, the population of subsistence farmers is increasing (25)............ These farmers have to make new farm fields just to feed their families. When they begin cutting down the forests, conflict erupts.
In January 2008, villagers in Assam woke up in the middle of the night to a horrible vision. An enormous group of elephants suddenly attacked their village, destroying crops and (26).............. 100 houses. They also killed an elderly man who was asleep at the time. No one would dream of such an attack in the past, (27)............ they are becoming much more common. In Assam alone, hundreds of people and hundreds of endangered elephants have died in this conflict. The government of India cannot find an easy (28)................. to the problem, so villagers continue to take the law into their own hands. They use poisons, traps, and electrical fences to protect their farmland and kill the elephants. The elephants gather together and fight back.
Question 24.