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Jane Goodall had no training in science when she arrived in Africa from England. But she was a very good observer. In Goodall's first encounters with chimpanzees, the animals shrieked and ran away from her. Slowly, though, she gained their trust by seeing them again and again. Goodall spent years watching how chimpanzees behaved in the wild. She was the first to discover that chimpanzees hunt and eat meat. She was also the first to see a chimpanzee use a stick to catch and eat insects. Until that time, people believed that only humans made tools.
What is the meaning of encounters as used in the passage?

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Jane Goodall had no training in science when she arrived in Africa from England. But she was a very good observer. In Goodall's first encounters with chimpanzees, the animals shrieked and ran away from her. Slowly, though, she gained their trust by seeing them again and again. Goodall spent years watching how chimpanzees behaved in the wild. She was the first to discover that chimpanzees hunt and eat meat. She was also the first to see a chimpanzee use a stick to catch and eat insects. Until that time, people believed that only humans made tools.
What is the meaning of encounters as used in the passage?

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Roger Bannister ran into the record books in 1954. Before Bannister, the record for a mile (1.6 kilometre) run was 4 minutes, 1.3 seconds. Experts said that the human body was not able to run any faster. But Bannister proved them wrong, running a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. Though other runners have run even faster since then, this doesn't detract from Bannister's record. In history books, Bannister will forever be the first to break the 'limit' of four minutes.
What is the meaning of detract as used in the passage?

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Roger Bannister ran into the record books in 1954. Before Bannister, the record for a mile (1.6 kilometre) run was 4 minutes, 1.3 seconds. Experts said that the human body was not able to run any faster. But Bannister proved them wrong, running a mile in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds. Though other runners have run even faster since then, this doesn't detract from Bannister's record. In history books, Bannister will forever be the first to break the 'limit' of four minutes.

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The first time basketball was played, the players used a football and peach baskets. A Canadian-American college teacher named James Naismith invented the game in 1892. Naismith nailed the baskets high above his students' heads. First, he formed two teams of nine players each. Then, he explained the objective: each team had to throw the ball into the other team's basket and stop the other team from making a basket. When play began, the players hit and kicked their opponents to stop them from scoring. Later, Naismith added rules to stop this kind of rough play. The first game's final score was 1 to 0.
What is the meaning of objective as used in the passage?

Select the text from the paragraph that best helps you understand that encounters means meetings. There may be more than one correct choice:

The first time basketball was played, the players used a football and peach baskets. A Canadian-American college teacher named James Naismith invented the game in 1892. Naismith nailed the baskets high above his students' heads. First, he formed two teams of nine players each. Then, he explained the objective: each team had to throw the ball into the other team's basket and stop the other team from making a basket. When play began, the players hit and kicked their opponents to stop them from scoring. Later, Naismith added rules to stop this kind of rough play. The first game's final score was 1 to 0.


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Every spring on the beaches of America's northeastern coast, the horseshoe crabs gather. Crowds of them make nests on the beach, and the females lay their eggs. Soon the crabs are joined by a multitude of shorebirds. Thousands of birds stop at these beaches each year. The birds stuff themselves with small green horseshoe crab eggs. The birds depend on these eggs to get enough energy for the long flight ahead. Many of them are flying from South America to the Arctic. Scientists say that this gathering of crabs and birds has been occurring for thousands of years.
What is the meaning of multitude as used in the passage?

Select the text from the paragraph that best helps you understand that encounters means meetings. There may be more than one correct choice:

Every spring on the beaches of America's northeastern coast, the horseshoe crabs gather. Crowds of them make nests on the beach, and the females lay their eggs. Soon the crabs are joined by a multitude of shorebirds. Thousands of birds stop at these beaches each year. The birds stuff themselves with small green horseshoe crab eggs. The birds depend on these eggs to get enough energy for the long flight ahead. Many of them are flying from South America to the Arctic. Scientists say that this gathering of crabs and birds has been occurring for thousands of years.

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