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Passage –F

The West Indian Land Crab makes its home two or three miles from the sea. When the females wish to lay their eggs, they do not carry them attached to their bodies, as most crabs do. Instead, they make their way back to the sea to lay them in the sand. All of them go at once, together, with the males leading the way. There may be enough to form a host a mile long and forty yards wide. Houses and walls and cliffs do not stop them. They never turn aside but keep straight on until, if they survive, they reach the sea.

21.   This story is mainly about-

1.       Where the West Indian Land Crab makes its home.

2.       The egg- laying behavior of a certain type of crab.

3.       A host a mile long.

4.       A terrible trek to the sea.

22.   The West Indian Land Crab-

1.       Lives its life next to the sea.

2.       Lays its eggs on the seaside

3.       Carries its eggs next to its body.

4.       Lays its eggs several miles from the sea.

23.   The trek to the sea-

1.       Can be dangerous.

2.       Is for females only.

3.       Is safe, since there are so many.

4.       Allows the crabs to stop and rest.

24.   The word “ host” is this story refers to-

1.       A large group

2.       An attack on the group.

3.       A group of females.

4.       A powerful group

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Passage-E

What do we mean when we speak of a calorie? Well, we know that the food we eat is burned and provides heat. Some foods can provide much heat and other foods very little. The foods that provide much heat provide many calories. We measure the amount of heat a food provides in calories, just as we measure your height in inches or your weight in pounds. A calorie is a measure of the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree centigrade. One calorie of food can also raise one pound of matter to a height of 40 inches. Two thousand calories a day of food in the body can provide a lot of heat and the ability to do a lot of work.

17.       This story is mainly about-

1.       Calories.

2.       Heat and work.

3.       Measuring

4.       The differences in foods.

18.   Calories –

1.       Are the same as heat and work?

2.       Are measures of heat?

3.       Are the same as food?

4.        Are the measure of heat and work?

19.   Oily foods provide a lot of calories. Therefore , we can say that –

1.       Oily foods provide a lot of heat.

2.       Oily foods must be avoided.

3.       Oily foods have too many calories.

4.       Oily foods provide very little heat.

20.   One degree centigrade is a measure of –

1.       Water.

2.       Temperature.

3.       Weight.

4.        One gram.

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Passage – D

Does a fish drink? All living things must drink, and they require a fresh supply of water often. A person can go without food for many days but he or she cannot go for long without water. Fish drink and fish that live in salt water must drink salt water. However, when we watch them in an aquarium and see them opening and closing their mouths, we must not assume that they are drinking. Fish need water for their oxygen. The water they seem to be gulping gives them oxygen, which is in the water. On the other hand, when a fish drinks, it swallows water, just as we do.

13.       This story is mainly about-

1.       Drinking.

2.       The need of a fish for oxygen

3.       A fish’s uses of water.

4.       Why a fish gulps water.

14.       A fish opens and closes its mouth-

1.       In order to get oxygen.

2.       To drink.

3.       In order to gulp.

4.       To swim in an aquarium.

15.        Person-

1.       Can live for a long time without water.

2.       Can live for a long time without food.

3.       Has no need for food and water.

4.       Has no need for a fresh supply of water.

16.       When fish drink.

1.       They require fresh water.

2.       They swallow water, just as we do.

3.       They require salt water.

4.       They drink water for its oxygen.

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Passage –C

 Where does our warmth come from? We might think that warmth comes from clothes but clothes can only keep the warmth that we already have from escaping into the air, sometimes we get warmth from something outside, such as the sun or a fire or a hot bath. However, we would be badly off it had to depend only on the sun a fire or a hot bath for warmth. The fact is we make the warmth ourselves, and it comes from our food. Our food is burned inside our bodies. Burning requires oxygen, which comes from the air that we breathe. Food and oxygen together burn to create warmth.

9.       This story is mainly about-

1.       Food and oxygen.

2.       Keeping warmth inside.

3.       The importance of burning inside our bodies to keep us warm.

4.       The importance of the sun, a fire, or a hot bath.

10.       Burning requires –

1.       Oxygen

2.       The sun.

3.       Food.

4.       Fire

                       11.       The oxygen in our bodies comes from-

1.       Food

2.       The sun

3.       Fire

4.       Air

12.       Clothes –

1.       Make warmth.

2.       Keep warmth from escaping.

3.       Are like the sun or fire.

4.       Require oxygen.

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