Reading comprehension

Read our article about the history of Indigenous Australians on pages 26-29 of English Now No 110. Then drag and drop the dates and numbers below into the correct spaces to complete the sentences, which are adapted from the article.
1788190029786,68919501.2519581140024.61,50050,0001770315,0001,000

  1. It was April
    ______
    th
    ______
    when British Captain James Cook became the first known European to arrive in Australia.
  2. Nobody knows for certain how many Indigenous Australians lived there at the time, but the estimated number ranges from
    ______
    to
    ______
    million.
  3. They represented more than
    ______
    different nations.
  4. Eight years later, in January
    ______
    , the First Fleet arrived in Australia from England.
  5. It consisted of
    ______
    ships, including Royal Navy ships, store ships and convict ships.
  6. On the ships were between
    ______
    and
    ______
    convicts, marines, seamen, civil officers and free people.
  7. The introduction of policies of ‘Assimilation’ in the
    ______
    s facilitated the forcible removal of thousands of Indigenous children from their homes.
  8. By the early 1900s, the population of Indigenous people was only about
    ______
    .
  9. Around the
    ______
    s, the world developed a sense of moral outrage about the way countries, including Australia, were treating their Indigenous populations.
  10. This resulted in the introduction of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement in
    ______
    .
  11. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that
    ______
    Australians identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and that number is growing.
  12. The total population of Australia is around
    ______
    million.

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