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1. 1.

   Complete these sentences with information found in the text.

   1. It looks different from other crocodiles in having _______________________ snout and _______________________ jaws. (para 5)
   2. Male gharials grow, at the end of the snout, _______________________ through which they produce _______________________. (para 5)
   3. The male gharial also uses the snout to produce _______________________. (para 6)
   4. Unlike other female crocodiles which have to carry _______________________ from the nest to the water, a female gharial just puts her babies outside the nest and moves towards the river. The babies _______________________. (para 10)
   5. Unlike other crocodiles which live in _______________________, gharials live in _______________________, eating only _______________________. (para 12)
2. 2.

   The territory-holder surges forward, churning the water into froth with his tail.

   1. What or who is being talked about?
   2. What does he surge forward towards? With what intention?
   3. What are the two possible results?
3. 3.

   Her thirty-six babies followed, rather like ducklings.

   1. Whose babies? Whom did they follow?
   2. Where did they go from where?
   3. In what way was this unusual?
4. 4.

   What were Whitaker and his team going to do with the eggs? Why? (para 3)

5. 5.

   Was their work part of a larger project? What project? What made it necessary? (paras 12 and 13)

6. 6.

   Did Whitaker and his team succeed in breeding a large number of gharials in captivity? Was their project a success or a failure? What made it so? (paras 13 and 14).