Read the text and complete gaps A-F with the parts of the sentences marked by numbers 1-7. Pay attention to the highlighted words. One part is extra. Listen and check. TSINGY BEMARAHA NATIONAL PARK Botanist Nick Leaver talks about a scientific expedition to one of the world’s most remote and biodiverse nature reserves. Botany may not be regarded by many as the most exciting of careers, but I can honestly say that I have never found it anything but enthralling. I have had the great fortune to travel virtually the entire world for my job looking for plant species A) . Last year, my research took me to Madagascar, one of the most beautiful and fascinating countries I have ever had the good fortune to visit. Madagascar is an island about the size of France off the south-east coast of Africa. It is a biologist’s dream B) . What is more, an estimated 80% of these are found nowhere else on Earth. With such a tremendous collection of species under its care, the Madagascar government has set aside about fifty areas of special interest as national parks. One of the most beautiful is the Tsingy Bemaraha National Park, C) . Tsingy consists of deciduous forests and mangrove swamps sitting on towering, jagged limestone rocks. Below ground, there is an enormous network of caves, rivers and streams. There are bird, reptile, lemur and frog species in the park D) . The aye-aye, the world’s largest nocturnal primate, lives there too. It has a very odd appearance – luminous, beady eyes and a very long middle finger on both its hands. It was in this truly incredible wildlife habitat that I gathered the majority of my plant samples. Getting to many of the plants in Tsingy can be a struggle because of the terrain. You have to be prepared to climb and scramble over this wonderful rocky landscape. The plants cling precariously to the sharp peaks and towering cliffs. Those on the tops of the rocks have had to adapt to extreme conditions – burning heat and long periods of drought – so they do not have leaves, but instead are covered in thorns E) . To date, we botanists have counted roughly 650 plant species in Tsingy. Most of these have not been investigated, but research in laboratories, like the one I work in, will hopefully discover if any are of medicinal value. I have high hopes. Madagascar is home to the Rosy Periwinkle, F) . I suspect there are many more Madagascar plants with potential disease-curing properties.

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Read the text and complete gaps A-F with the parts of the sentences marked by numbers 1-7. Pay attention to the highlighted words. One part is extra. Listen and check.

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TSINGY BEMARAHA NATIONAL PARK
Botanist Nick Leaver talks about a scientific expedition to one of the world’s most remote and biodiverse nature reserves.
Botany may not be regarded by many as the most exciting of careers, but I can honestly say that I have never found it anything but enthralling. I have had the great fortune to travel virtually the entire world for my job looking for plant species A) ...
. Last year, my research took me to Madagascar, one of the most beautiful and fascinating countries I have ever had the good fortune to visit.
Madagascar is an island about the size of France off the south-east coast of Africa. It is a biologist’s dream B) ... . What is more, an estimated 80% of these are found nowhere else on Earth.
With such a tremendous collection of species under its care, the Madagascar government has set aside about fifty areas of special interest as national parks. One of the most beautiful is the Tsingy Bemaraha National Park, C) ... . Tsingy consists of deciduous forests and mangrove swamps sitting on towering, jagged limestone rocks. Below ground, there is an enormous network of caves, rivers and streams. There are bird, reptile, lemur and frog species in the park D) ... .
The aye-aye, the world’s largest nocturnal primate, lives there too. It has a very odd appearance – luminous, beady eyes and a very long middle finger on both its hands.
It was in this truly incredible wildlife habitat that I gathered the majority of my plant samples. Getting to many of the plants in Tsingy can be a struggle because of the terrain. You have to be prepared to climb and scramble over this wonderful rocky landscape. The plants cling precariously to the sharp peaks and towering cliffs. Those on the tops of the rocks have had to adapt to extreme conditions – burning heat and long periods of drought – so they do not have leaves, but instead are covered in thorns E) ... .
To date, we botanists have counted roughly 650 plant species in Tsingy. Most of these have not been investigated, but research in laboratories, like the one I work in, will hopefully discover if any are of medicinal value. I have high hopes. Madagascar is home to the Rosy Periwinkle, F) ... . I suspect there are many more Madagascar plants with potential disease-curing properties.

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