Elephants need a lot of water. Grown-ups drink about 190 liters a day. The animals use water in 1)______ ways as well. After drinking enough they fill their trunks and spray their bodies. The showers cool them. Elephants rest during the 2) _____ part of the day and for 3)____hours each night.
Today, many elephants in Africa 4)_____ because they don't have enough to eat and because they don't have enough space to live in. Besides, hunters kill thousands of elephants every year. Sometimes they do it for meat, but mostly for their ivory trunks.
Most elephants are now in national parks. There
are too many animals there. As a result, the
elephants don't have enough grass and 5)___________ to eat.
All these problems 6)_____(сократили) the number of elephants in Africa. Specialists 7)______ that only two million elephants live on the planet today.
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other
2. a) hotter b) more c) hottest d) most
hotter hottest
3. a) a few b) few c) a little d) little
4. a) die b) died c)aredieing d) are dying
5. a) leafs b) leaves c) leaf d) leave
6. a) redu- b) are c) have d) has
ced reduced reduced reduced
7. a) thinks b) is thin- c) are thin- d) think
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