Exam Essentials For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet. Example: 0 A fell B resulted C grow D became 0 A BCD The dodo, a bird that couldn't fly The dodo is a bird that (0) .A.... extinct in the 17th century, it lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, and had evolved and (1). ... to its unique island habitat. There were no predators to hunt it on the island, and plenty of fruit lying on the ground, so (2) .... millions of years, the dodo eventually (3) .... its ability to fly. It also became bigger to (4) .B... it to store enough fat to survive when food was scarce. In the 16th and 17th centuries, European sailors started arriving on the island. Accounts written at the (5)....... describe the birds as trusting and friendly, and having. no reason to (6).... human beings because they had no experience of people, the giant birds were easy to catch and kill for food. (7) ....., it was the animals the sailors brought with them - especially rats and monkeys - that posed the greatest (8)...... to the dodo, eating their eggs and chicks. 1 A adapted B changed C suited 2 A with B across C over D transformed D'around 3 A rejected B lost C dropped D threw 4 A. ensure B make C enable D let 5 A time B moment C point D occasion 1 6 A-frighten B scare C panic D fear 7 A Even 8 A concern B However C Despite D Although B threat C problem D trouble​