Bid to clone wooly mammoth

1
Bid to clone wooly mammoth

• What movie does this idea remind you of?
• Do you think its possible?
• Do you think they should try?
• What would happen if they succeeded?

2
They hope to extract DNA from the male mammoths
bone marrow or internal organs and insert it into
the egg of an Asian (19).

• A. elephant
• B. mammoth
• C. adult female
• D. animal

• There arent any mammoths today.
• Female human?
• What kind of animal?
• A. elephant

3
It is hoped that the mother will be able to give
birth to (20) baby mammoth.

• A. alive
• B. a life
• C. living
• D. a live

• What kind of baby mammoth? - You need an
  adjective.
• X B.
• You also need an article.
• X A./C.
• D. a live

4
the international scientists working on the
project believe that the freezing conditions
(where the mammoth was discovered) (21)

• A. may be preserved
• B. preserve
• C. to preserve
• D. may have preserved

• Active voice. X A.
• It is possible that the freezing conditions have
  preserved the mammoth since it died 20,000 years
  ago.
• D. may have preserved.

5
A paleontologist on the project, Dr Larry
Agenbroad, said the mammoth (23) in a laboratory
in the Russian city of Katanga.

• A. studied
• B. would have studied
• C. would be studied
• D. being studied
• The scientists are the ones that will study the
  mammoth.
• Passive voice. X A./B.

• being studied which is being studied - This
  would create an incomplete sentence. Ex. The car
  which is being repaired
• The mammoth will be studied. (Use reported
  speech).
• C. would be studied.

6
Recently it (24) from its resting place on the
Taimyr Peninsula, ...

• A. was flown
• B. has flown
• C. had flown
• D. flew

• The mammoth is dead and doesnt have wings.
• Passive voice.
• A. was flown

7
Its tusks, (25) over 60 kilograms each, were
carried on a reindeer-pulled sled.

• A. weighed
• B. weighing
• C. weigh
• D. were weighed

• This is an adjective phrase describing the tusks
• Ex. The man (standing over there) is my friend.
• B. weighing

8
He (26) organised a team of scientists who
successfully removed the mammoths head from the
ice.

• A. finally
• B. one day
• C. subsequently
• D. incredibly
• The first part of the paragraph tells us that
• 1. Some people found a tusk.
• 2. They tried to sell the tusks.

• After these things happened, he organised his
  team.
• Which option carries this meaning?
• C. subsequently

9
According to Dr Agenbroad, Asian elephants are
biologically (27) to mammoths than they are to
African elephants.

• A. similar
• B. more similar
• C. alike
• D. more like
• than should remind you that you are looking at
  a familiar structure.
• Ex. Elephants are bigger than dogs.

• X A./C.
• Which sounds better?
• similar to
• like to
• B. more similar

10
If inserting mammoth DNA into an elephant egg is
unsuccessful, there is (28).

• A. an idea
• B. another egg
• C. a problem
• D. an alternative
• The rest of the paragraph describes using sperm
  to produce an offspring which would be half
  mammoth and half elephant.

• One choice is to clone a mammoth with DNA.
• Another choice is to use sperm to produce a
  half-mammoth.
• D. an alternative

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The resulting offspring would be half mammoth and
half elephant, but by breeding these animals (29)
a nearly pure mammoth could be produced.

• A. over many generations
• B. more than a century
• C. in time
• D. after years
• B. X missing for
• breeding ... in time doesnt make sense.

• Youd have to say, after years of breeding these
  animals
• The first generation will be half and half, the
  next will be 3/4 mammoth and so on.
• A. Correct

12
The mammoth was buried (30) almost five metres of
permafrost.

• A. with
• B. for
• C. under
• D. deep
• Permafrost is earth that is always frozen.

• The mammoth was under this layer of permafrost.
• C. correct

13
It is (31) I have come to touching a live
mammoth still (32) skin, hair and flesh (33), ...

• 31.
• A. nearly
• B. very close
• C. closer
• D. the closest
• C. X - Youd have to say, It is closer than I
  have ever
• D. correct

• 32. A. had
• B. has
• C. having
• D. to have
• still is an adjective phrase describing the
  mammoth
• C. Correct

14
It is (31) I have come to touching a live
mammoth still (32) skin, hair and flesh (33), ...

• A. belonging
• B. grown
• C. intact
• D. living
• The frozen conditions have prevented these things
  from being destroyed.

• Only one logical answer.
• C. correct

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(34) Dr Agenbroad and his colleagues are fairly
optimistic about the outcome, scientists not
involved with the study have argued it is
unlikely that cloning (35).

• 34.
• A. Although
• B. Even
• C. Nevertheless
• D. Despite
• The doctors optimistic view is being contrasted
  with the pessimistic view of other scientists.
• A. Correct

• 35.
• A. ever succeed
• B. will succeed
• C. is successful
• D. is success
• We are talking about something that will (or will
  not) happen in the future.
• B. Correct