Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 1 to 5.
 
Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in the world’s oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.
When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive, which motivated her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 metres.
In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater ‘house’. The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and especially to coral reefs. Her team also studied the problem of overfishing. Fishing methods meant that people were catching too many fish. Earle warned, and many species were in danger of becoming extinct.
Since then she has written several books and magazine articles about ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world’s oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. Although she no longer eats seafood herself, she realises the importance it plays in our diets. However, people need to reduce the impact they are having on the ocean’s supplies.
(Adapted from Complete IELTS Workbook by Rawdon Wyatt)
 
Question 1:  The word “record-breaking” in paragraph 2 mostly means _______
                  A. unbelievable             B. impressive                C. dangerous                 D. unprecedented
Question 2:  The word “it” in paragraph 4 refers to _______
                  A. impact                      B. fishing                      C. seafood                    D. importance
Question 3:  Which best serves as the title for the passage?
                  A. Sylvia Earle, First Female Diver
                  B. A New Book on Coral Reefs
                  C. Sylvia Earle, Underwater Hero
                  D. A study on Marine Species
Question 4:  According to the passage, Sylvia Earle was well known worldwide _______
                  A. from an early age                                           B. at the age of 35
                  C. when she was 16                                            D. in 1935
Question 5:  Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Sylvia Earle?
                  A. Some of her books and magazine articles are about how to reduce the damage done to the oceans.
                  B. She grew fond of the world’s oceans after making her first dive.
                  C. She has spent more than 6,500 hours under water.
                  D. She used to be the captain of the first all-female team to live under water.
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