test 8- part 5

The whale that saved a woman's life
Some years ago, a Chinese zoo organized a special diving (1)…….. They told
the people who wanted to enter the competition to dive into a pool where there
were some whales. The water (2) ………… 7 metres deep and very cold and
they had to stay there for as long as possible without breathing.

• A. competition
  

• B. competitor
  

• C. compete
  

• D. competitive
  

The water (2) ………… 7 metres deep and very cold and
they had to stay there for as long as possible without breathing. 26-year-old
Yang Yun was a (3) …… diver, but she hadn’t ever dived in such cold, deep (4)
………… before.

• A. is
  

• B. was
  

• C. will
  

• D. are
  

26-year-old
Yang Yun was a (3) …… diver, but she hadn’t ever dived in such cold, deep (4)
………… before.

• A. confidence

• B. confidential
  

• C. confident
  

• D. self-confident
  

26-year-old
Yang Yun was a (3) …… diver, but she hadn’t ever dived in such cold, deep (4)
………… before.

• A. land
  

• B. sand
  

• C. coral
  

• D. water
  

When Yun had been in the pool for a (5) ………… minutes,
she found that she couldn't move her legs.

• A little
  

• B. many
  

• C. amount

• D. few

Later, Yun said that she had felt very
anxious and afraid (6) ………… that moment. But then a whale called Mila,
which had lived at the zoo for some time and was sociable with humans, swam
towards Yun.

• A. in

• B. at

• C. on

• D. to
  

Mila had seen that Yun was in trouble, and wanted to (7)
………… her.

• A. find

• B. support

• C. help

• D. believe

When the people around the pool saw Mila pushing Yun out of the water, they
(8) ………… that the whale had saved the woman.

• A. understood
  

• B. misunderstood

• C. understanding

• D. outstanding
  

Yun later told journalists
that she had known that there was ‘an incredible force’ pushing her (9)
…………, but that she hadn’t realised it was a whale.

• A. highly
  

• B. up

• C. down
  

• D. disappointed
  

And she said that she was
never going to forget Mila – the whale that saved her (10) ………….

• A. living

• B. vital

• C. life
  

• D. alive