Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 31 to 35..

One of the most wondrous and iconic animals to walk the Earth, Bengal tigers, (31)______ are majestic and rare. They’re also one of the biggest cat species in the world. On average, Bengals are larger than (32)______ other tiger species, but the largest tiger ever (33)______ was a Siberian. As such, Bengals are considered the second largest tiger species.
Today, wild Bengal tigers are animals that only live in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal. (34)______ there are more Bengals than any other tiger subspecies on the Indian subcontinent, the populations are endangered. Conservation efforts are working to some degree, but they’re not (35)______ the poaching, deforestation, and human encroachment that has devastated wild tiger habitats over the past 50 years.