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Multiple Choice - (C1) Advanced Certificate of English

For Questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Wildcams

Inside (0) THE Hopkins Marine Station's Gilly Lab, Dr. William Gilly (1) ............ at black-and-white footage of a Humboldt squid. The new footage was (2) ............ using a wildcam, a camera designed to be mounted on a wild animal. The clip shows a squid (3) ............ with other members of its species. In the distance, other squid flicker and flash like disorienting strobe lights. Gilly, a professor at Stanford University, often works out of his lab at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California. Hopkins is a Stanford-affiliated marine laboratory (4) ............ about 80 kilometers south of the university's Palo Alto campus. In 2009, Gilly (5) ............ to the Gulf of California to attach soda-bottle-sized wildcams to Humboldt squid, which can be up to two meters long. According to Gilly, the first wildcam (6) ............ to a Humboldt squid's body didn't stay secure for very long. So they (7) ............ the camera off and disconnected the whole sleeve that held the camera onto the squid and just tore the whole thing off the squid. (8) ............, the whole camera assembly was buoyant, and was saved.

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