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The human population of Sri Lanka is now believed to be over 20 million. As a result, large areas of trees are being turned into farmland, highways are being built over centuries—old elephant migration(遷徙) routes, and elephants are being driven out of their habitats. This change causes turmoil, resulting in an increased number of uncontrollable events between elephants and humans.

   The good news is that there is one place called the Elephant Transit Home(ETH) in Udawalawe National Park, the main purpose of which is to protect and care for baby elephants that are found injured or living without their mothers in the wild. A day at the ETH begins early in the morning when the baby elephants are given their first feeding of milk. During the course of the day, each baby will drink an average of 13 gallons of milk. Older elephant are fed mostly coconut leaves as well as other native plants. Then the elephants are set free to wander in the park, eating growing grass and forming a herd.

   The ETH spends almost $125,000 each year on powdered milk for these baby animals. To help pay for food and medical supplies, the ETH has a foster（領養）parent program. Anyone, even schoolchildren, can help a lot by giving money to care for a baby elephant. While some foster parents are too faraway to visit the baby elephant being cared for at the ETH, local schoolchildren play an important part in the program. Foster parents can name their elephants, take photographs of them, and even help send them back into the wild.

   Now visitors are not encouraged to get close to the elephants. The goal of the ETH is for the elephants to return to the wild in the end. It usually takes three years for a baby elephant to be sent back into its natural habitat. The elephants are often set free together with other animals with whom they have close relationships. This program helps them return to the wild as members of a herd that will communicate with each other and take care of each other.

32. What does the underlined word ”turmoil” most probably refer to?

A. a lack of order                                                         B. a sense of well-being

C. a condition of illness                                                       D. a feeling of loneliness

33. As a foster parent in the ETH , you may              .

A. give the elephant you care for a name                           B. visit the baby elephants anytime you want

C. take photographs of elephants twice a month                D. visit Udawalawe National Park free of charge

34. The last paragraph mainly deals with          .

A. the cost of raising a young elephant                              B. the life of the baby elephants in the ETH

C. the future of the elephants in the ETH                           D. the requirements of being a foster parent

35. What would be the best title for the text?

A. Migration Habits of Asian Elephants                               B. Volunteer with Elephants in Sri Lanka

C. Traveling in Udawalawe National Park                            D. The Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka

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