July 24-30, 2006
How is dingo urine gathered? Carefully, say Australian researchers.
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1. What is dingo urine being tested for?
A. digging up gold
B. fertiliser for plants
C. defusing landmines
D. repellent for kangaroos

2. What are dingoes?
A. road kill
B. coyotes
C. wild dogs
D. kangaroos

3. What other animal were dingoes compared to?
A. mites
B. coyotes
C. marsupials
D. mastodons

4. What needs to be done to make the use of dingo urine wide spread?

A. urine export

B. dingo breeding
C. global warming
D. artificial production

5. How is dingo urine collected?
A. milking
B. test tubes
C. They donŐt tell
D. urine catchers


Synonyms: Which of the following words or phrases replace the ones from the passage best?
6. vegetation
A. fields
B. farms
C. plant life
D. orchards

7. flee
  A. bite
B. attack
C. run away
D. become tame

8. collision
A. ride
B. crash
C. pick up
D. cooperation

9. gather
A. collect
B. spread
C. analyse
D. produce

10. risky
A. tedious
B. wasteful
C. inefficient
D. dangerous

 

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