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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in the world’s oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.

When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive, which motivated her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever, reaching a record – breaking depth of 381 metres.

In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the caption of the first all- female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater “house”. The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and especially to coral reefs. Her team also studied the problem of over- fishing. Fishing methods meant that people were catching too many fish, Earle warned, and many species were in danger of becoming extinct.

Since then she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world’s oceans. One way, she believes, is to reply on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. Although she no longer eats seafood herself, she realizes the importance it plays in our diets, It would be wrong to tell people they should stop eating fish from the sea, she says. However, they need to reduce the impact they are having on the ocean’s supplies.

Question 15: Which best serves as the title for the passage?

A. A new book on coral reefs                                            B. Sylvia Earle, first female diver

C. Sylvia Earle, underwater hero                                     D. A study on marine species

Question 16: The word “motivated” in paragraph 2 mostly means _______.

A. approved                           B. frightened                     C. inspired                         D. disappointed

Question 17: The word “that” in paragraph 3 refers to _______.

A. the research                        B. the team                        C. the house                       D. the damage

Question 18: According to the last paragraph, Earle believes that _______.

A. More books about the world’s oceans should be written

B. It is a good idea to reduce fishing at sea

C. Seafood is not important to human diets

D. Fish farms increase the damage done to the oceans

Question 19: According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as Earle’s role?

A. teacher                               B. explorer                         C. biologist                        D. researcher

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