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1. Fill in the gaps with a/an or the or put a cross if no article is needed.
…local legends say that … Borneo’s few thousand wild elephants are descendants from those brought to … from India or Malaysia as … gift to … sultan in … eighteenth century. Biologists from … Columbia University’s Centre for Environmental Research and Conservation compared DNA samples from Borneo elephants with Asian elephants in Sumatra, India and elsewhere. … findings confirmed their suspicions: Borneo’s elephants are genetically different. In fact … DNA differences are so great between them and their closest relatives (elephants in Peninsular Malaysia) that … populations may have separated up to 300,000 years ago, say … scientists. The animals became isolated when … island became totally cut off from the mainland due to … rise in sea level. Borneo’s elephants are, therefore, … important, separate population.
2. Complete using a/an, the or – (zero article).
… tea is …evergreen plant. It was accidentally discovered by … Emperor … Shen Nung of … China. Whilst on … trip, he was boiling … pot of … water when … tea leaf fell into it. … British sailors, returning from … Far East, brought packets of … tea back …home as presents for their relatives. … first advertisement for … tea appeared in … newspaper called Mercurius Politicus in 1660. … advertisement in … newspaper said that … tea could cure … colds and other illnesses. … poor were prepared to pay as much as … third of their weekly wage to have tea. … tea has been … most popular drink in … Britain for three hundred years. … average Briton drinks thirty cups of … tea … week. In fact, … British import almost twenty-five percent of all … tea exported in … world.
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