Read the text about oil spill and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 56 to 65.
On an ecologist’s list of nightmares, this (56)_______ looked like an easy member of the top five. An Ecuadorian fuel tanker, the Jessica, ran aground in the Galapagos Archipelago and slowly spilled its (57)_______ of 240.000 gal of fuel oil into the surrounding ocean. The disaster threatened to choke a unique and delicate (58)_______, the islands whose giant tortoises and 15 related species of finch inspired Charles Darwin’s “the origin of Species” in 1859.
he emergency began when the captain of the Jessica, a 30 year old boat, (59)_______ a buoy for a lighthouse and ran aground off the shore of San Cristobal Island. The ship’s cargo was 65% diesel oil (60)_______ for Baltra Island and 35% bunker fuel, a heavier form of oil used by tour boats. Rescue teams from Ecuadorian navy and the state-owned fuel company began (61)_______ fuel from the damaged vessel, but after three days of battering by waves up to 2 meters in (62)_______, the Jessica began leaking oil into the sea and would (63)_______ pour out over 180,000 gallons.
One week later, the government declared a state of (64)_______ in the Galapagos archipelago, setting (65)_______ an initial $2 million for cleanup operation.
(62)_______
A.length
B.range
C.height
D.strength