​Orphan Elephants: Multiple Choice Grammar Test

(1) _______ children, young elephants need discipline if they are to grow up (2) _______ responsible mem­bers of society. Orphan bull elephants in (3) _______ Game Reserve have turned delinquent because they (4) _______ taken in hand by their. (5) _______ . Earlier this month, a young bull (6) _______ at a group of tourists on a photo-safari, attacked and killed a profes­sional hunter who (7) _______ in to shoot it. Two years ago another tourist (8) _______ , chased out of his battered car and trampled to death in the reserve, was not the only victim (9)_______ : in the past three years, nineteen white rhino­ceroses (10) _______ to death by elephants.

Scientists think they can explain the (11) _______ abnormaland unacceptable behaviour. The stress these animals have been subjected to, (12) _______ with the fact that they have never been subjected to the discipline and (13) _______ of a ma­triarchal cow, which is a central feature of normal elephant family life, (14) ________ for their behaviour, Elephants are among those animals (15) _______ patterns of behaviour are acquired largely by experience. Some elephants are suffering from the lack of some­one (16) _______ them a good example, older bull elephants, who are known (17) _______ aggressive young bulls during the mating season. Only in a whole elephant family young elephant bulls receive the strict parentaldiscipline they need.