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It was past midnight. We were walking ___1___
the beach enjoying the cool sea ___2___.
Then one of us spotted ___3___
we had come to look for. ___4___
of the sea came a giant leatherback turtle, crawling
slowly ___5___
the beach. It had a great hard shell upon its ___6___
and used its huge flippers to ___7___
about effortlessly.
The turtle ___8___
the middle of the beach and began digging ___9___
at the sand. Large scoops of ___10___
were flung everywhere as the turtle worked ___11___
deep concentration, oblivious ___12___
our prying eyes. When a deep ___13___
had been dug, the turtle settled over it ___14___
ten minutes. As it got up, it began ___15___
the hole with sand again.
In the bright moonlight, we could see numerous
round, white ___16___.
In a month's ___17___,
tiny turtles will hatch ___18___
them. These baby turtles would all crawl to the ___19___
as if guided by instinct and swim away. When they
reach adulthood, they ___20___
would return to this spot to lay their eggs.
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