26 Language in use Read the text about a celebrity animal. Some parts are missing. Choose the correct part (A–R) for each gap (1–15). There are two extra parts that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 2 Banked gap-fill Jumbo The story of how a word got its meaning is often interesting. (0) the word ‘jumbo’, which describes an enormous jet plane. (1) this is the meaning we are probably most familiar with, the word is also widely used in advertising. For instance, we select a jumbo pack from the supermarket shelf (2) of good value for money. But why ‘jumbo’? The answer is a worldfamous 19th-century zoo and circus elephant called Jumbo. Jumbo was gigantic, even for an elephant, which is why his name (3) be used to describe anything much larger than average. (4) , he was around 4 metres tall. (5) where the word ‘jumbo’ itself comes from is uncertain, but it (6) be most probably of African origin. (7) , Jumbo spent almost his entire life with humans. His mother having been killed by hunters in his native Sudan, he was captured, sold, and transported across sea and land, eventually ending up in a Parisian zoo. (8) how stressful this must have been for a young wild animal. He was (9) of the mother who, in his natural habitat, he (10) have left for many more years to come. It was during his time at London Zoo, to which he was later transferred, that Jumbo started to gain fame. No trip to the zoo was complete without a ride on Jumbo, and he was a great favourite, (11) . However, in 1882 London Zoo made the (12) decision to sell Jumbo. They feared that, as an adult male, he may become too dangerously (13) and therefore a problem to handle. In response to the public protests that followed, the zoo tried to reverse the business deal, (14) , and Jumbo crossed the Atlantic to join an American circus. (15) his reputation had gone before him, Jumbo was also hugely successful in America, participating in many events, such as the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. His life came to a tragic end one night in 1885, when he was hit and killed by a train at a railway station. But Jumbo’s name lives on. A Although G Exactly M Needless to say B Astonishingly H hardly ever respectful N Since C but in vain I hardly surprisingly O Take D came to J Imagine P taking care E controversial K in expectation Q unpredictable F deprived L is thought to R would not 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 O Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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