1 . Borneo is home to some of the most extraordinary wildlife. Several years ago, I decided to go there for a visit. A local person offered to be my guide, which was a great bonus for me. One day, my guide turned off the smooth road and took me across a _________ hillside instead. We picked our way carefully when _________ a charming flower popped into my view among those stones. Oh, dear! More than _________, I bent down and put my nose practically inside the flower’s core.

_________, to my surprise, it was only one of the _________ during the trip. As I _________ the end of my trip, there was still something I had yet to see. We planned to _________ most feared creature there, the saltwater crocodile, which can grow to a _________ of 6 meters or more. When we shone a flashlight towards the muddy shore, little sounds _________ in the darkness as if something unseen underwater had broken the __________. Taking a second look, we spotted two greedy __________ just above the water line. As we drew near, it __________ and we saw clearly it was a crocodile. With great caution, we neared it and finally could __________ its true dimensions. It was a baby — no more than 0.6 meter long. Aha, whatever, I could now report to the __________ back home, who had never been to Borneo, that I had __________ a hungry crocodile in the wild and lived to tell the tale.