Text Features Practice

Multiple Choice

From the section titled "Killed for Soup", what can the reader infer about sharks?

• A) Sharks are hunted mostly for their teeth.

• B) Shark populations are growing and thriving.

• C) Humans hunt sharks primarily for their fins, which are used in a popular dish.

• D) The demand for shark meat has decreased since the 1980s.

Multiple Choice

What is most likely the reason the author includes the sidebar in the article?

• A) To provide the reader with the ingredients for shark fin soup

• B) To show how people are taking advantage of sharks by hunting them for their fins for food

• C) To explain how sharks attack humans

• D) To show that sharks are not important to the ocean

Multiple Choice

The diagram at the bottom of the article helps the reader understand that

• A) Sharks prefer eating humans over seals.

• B) Humans and seals look similar from a shark's perspective.

• C) Surfboards make humans more attractive to sharks.

• D) Sharks cannot see their prey clearly in the water.