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Cloze Passage (4.9) Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the most suitable word. Primates

Monkeys, apes and humans are mammals which fall ________ the primate category. Primates are ________ most intelligent group of animals. To _______ their environment, they have characteristics like forward ___________ eyes for judging distances and opposing thumbs for ____________ things. Gorillas live in ____________ lowland rainforests or high up in the mountains. Gorillas are heavy in __________. They spend most of their time on the __________ walking on their feet and fore limbs knuckles. Although gorillas look big and fearsome, they _________ are vegetarians. Orang utans, like gorillas and gibbons, are __________. They are shy solitary primates. They are _______________ mainly in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra in Asia. They ____________ all their lives living on trees.

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