Question 32
Read the passage and choose the answer for blank (32).
One of the most endangered species in East Africa today is the black rhinoceros.
At the start of the twentieth century, this species was well represented in East Africa,
but lucrative trade (31) various parts of its body has taken a devastating toll
on the animal population. Africa has lost about fifty percent of its rhinos
(32) the 1970s up to 1981. Since then, there has been a further forty percent
(33) in the population. Kenya had 20,000 black rhinoceroses in 1970, but
(34) 2011 only about 250 remain in the wild.
Lions and hyenas are natural enemies of young rhinos but man is the
(35) predator of adult rhinos. For hundreds of years, man has (36) rhino
horn for medical purposes.
One of the most endangered species in East Africa today is the black rhinoceros.
At the start of the twentieth century, this species was well represented in East Africa,
but lucrative trade (31) various parts of its body has taken a devastating toll
on the animal population. Africa has lost about fifty percent of its rhinos
(32) the 1970s up to 1981. Since then, there has been a further forty percent
(33) in the population. Kenya had 20,000 black rhinoceroses in 1970, but
(34) 2011 only about 250 remain in the wild.
Lions and hyenas are natural enemies of young rhinos but man is the
(35) predator of adult rhinos. For hundreds of years, man has (36) rhino
horn for medical purposes.