Elephant shrews (or ‘sengi’) don’t have much VARIAGE in their diets. Insects such as termites and ants make up almost 75–99% of their diet.

Even though scorpions are POISONING , their poison can be converted into a substance that stops pain by grasshopper mice.

I ____ always _______ for everything, even when I‘m just meeting my friends. I hate not being punctual .

My sister often calls home to say she _______________ and won’t be home for dinner.

Only OCCASIONLY will cats be sociable with other cats or humans. This makes it almost impossible to put cats together into a group.

I don’t know yet what I want to do when I fi nish school. Hopefully I will have decided_______________ I leave.

The albatross is a true INHABITIST of the sky. They can spend months and months out at sea and only return to land to breed.

Elephant shrews survive in the DEADLIOUS African grasslands due to their speed.

When I was younger, I would go to the cinema _________ week. Now I rarely go at all.

Grasshopper mice that have been brought up by two parents have different BEHAVIOUR patterns to those that are brought up by one parent. For one thing, it is said that they are more aggressive.

It is said that teenagers want to grow up too quickly. My grandmother always tells me that everything will happen ____________ .

There has been a SHORTISM of albatrosses in recent years because their species is threatened by a kind of fishing called ‘longline fi shing’.

I’ve been studying really hard at school this year because I want good grades. If I keep working hard, hopefully they’ll get better, __________________ .