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Examination Card № 12 (96)

I. Reading

Read the magazine article. Put the paragraph titles (A–I) in the right places. The first paragraph has been done for you. There are two extra paragraphs that you don’t need.

Tigers

ASkills FNumber of people killed by tigers

BGeneral characteristics GReproducing

CReasons for attacking humans HThe most famous type

DTigers as swimmers ITiger versus lion

EPlace of origin

0B

The largest of the cats is the tiger. It is as strong and aggressive as it is big. The tiger’s coat is often a bright golden colour. It has black stripes on the head, body, limbs, and tail. Stripes like these are sometimes found on the domestic cat, or house cat, which is a distant relative of the tiger.

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They are different mainly in the colour of their coats, but their skeletons are almost the same. Zoologists recognise the tiger skull by the higher setting of the nasal bones. The two species are similar in hunting habits, though tigers usually do not hunt in pairs as lions often do.

They range from Iran to the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Siberia and from this north-eastern limit southward to Malaysia and the Indian peninsula. A smaller variety is found on Sumatra, Java, and Bali. Tigers are not native to any other continent.

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This is the Royal Bengal found in the Indian peninsula. An adult male weighs as much as 500 pounds (230 kilograms) and may be 10 feet (3 metres) long, including the 3-­foot (1metre)­ tail.

Unlike most members of the cat family, tigers are good swimmers. They cross rivers easily to hunt down animals. Occasionally, to run away from a flood or some other serious danger, they even climb trees.

Tiger kittens number from two to five at a time and they grow for about 100 days inside their mother’s body. Unfortunately, not more than two usually survive the birth. After they are born they stay with their mother until their third year.

Tigers do not naturally attack people, but a few become man-­eaters when they lose the ability to kill faster animals. Broken teeth, broken claws, or being too weak in general­ can make an old tiger into a man-­eater. Hunters in India report that one tiger killed 127 people in 1973.