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Sand cats live solitarily, except for the mating season. It is its common habit: digging burrows to escape the desert heat and come out after dusk to hunt rodents. lizards, birds, and insects. Its large ears are used to listen for prey, digging rapidly when they hear it underground. Since the sand cat obtains all the water it needs from eating its prey, it mostly stays far away from watering points. Sand cats congregate only for mating, so numbering them is a difficult task. However, it seems that their numbers have been declining in the Arabian desert following an erratic prey found.
Threats to the Sand cat include humans, wolves, and snakes. Although solitary animals sand cats do not have their territories like most of the other cats and may even "take turns" over burrows with others. Cites list the Sand cat as endangered, although IUCN only lists it as near threatened as of 2001.
Very few zoos keep Sand cats. They are Wuppertal Zoo (Germany. and the park specializes in wild cats, Le Parc des Félins. They have a very successful breeding program for this sort of cat.
Source hitps://wildcatsmagazine.nl/wild-cats/sand-cat-felis-margarita/
14. The text mostly talks about ....
A. the category of wild African cat
B the fact of small African wild cat
C. the classification of small African cat
D. the common habit of wild African cat
Kunci jawaban: B
15. From the text, we may conclude that ....
A. the sand cats like living near water sources
B. human's threat is the main cause of the sand cat's extinction
C. Wuppertal Zoo, Germany, is the only breeding place for Sand cat
D. the sand cat's deteriorating number in the Arabian desert due to its rare prey
Kunci jawaban: D
16. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A Only a small number of zoos keep the Sand cat.
B. Le Parc des Félins is a place for domestic cats.
C. Special wild cat park is a place for cat breeding.
D. Sand cats are commonly kept in zoos.
Kunci jawaban: A
17. "Sand cats congregate only for mating, so ..." (Par.2)
The underlined word is closest in meaning to
A. separate
B. disperse & gather
D. part
