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In the following passage, there are blanks that have been numbered. Select the correct option to fill in the blanks. The seemingly hummingbird (1)_ is one of the toughest beasts in the animal kingdom. Some 330 species (2)_ in diverse and often brutal environments. Mysteriously, the birds are found only in North and South America. 'They're living (3)_ the edge of what's possible for vertebrates, and they're mastering it,' says Karl Schuchmann, a German (4), who studied a captive hummer that lived 17 years. 'Imagine the (5) of an organism of only five or six grams to live that long,' he says.
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- 11-delicate, 2-survive, 3-in, 4-geologist, 5-persistence
- 21-fragile, 2-thrive, 3-at, 4-ornithologist, 5-endurance✓
- 31-robust, 2-sustain, 3-by, 4-antiquarian, 5-stamina
- 41-vulnerable, 2-endure, 3-on, 4-ophthalmologist, 5-durability
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1-fragile, 2-thrive, 3-at, 4-ornithologist, 5-endurance
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