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A Pet Parrot
For questions 1-10, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
From early (0)_CHILDHOOD__Jane had always wanted a pet parrot. Her parents told her that a parrot was an (1)_______pet, but Jane insisted. She was (2)_________ about the (3)________of the rainforests where parrots live, and she felt that parrots needed more (4)________. Her father argued that a parrot would suffer from (5)_________if it lived in a house. He also explained that pet parrots are caught by (6)__________who need money and don’t care about protecting species. ‘They catch the parrots and send them to Europe in (7)_________boxes,’ he told her. ‘And in any case, parrots are very (8)__________and don’t make good pets.’ Jane soon made an interesting (9)_________, however. She found a pet shop which bred parrots instead of importing them. So she took all her (10)_________and bought a tiny parrot, which she called ‘Pixie’.
0 CHILD
1 SUIT
2 WORRY
3 DESTROY
4 PROTECT
5 LONELY
6 HUNT
7 WOOD
8 OBEY
9 DISCOVER
10 SAVE