TOEFL JR Practice -Exit ticket October 6th

Questions 26-33 refer to the following magazine article.

26. Unlike some other sharks, the basking shark is_____________ humans.

• (A) no threat to

• (B) no threatening

• (C) not to threaten

• (D) a threat is not to

27. humans. Growing to a size ______________

than that of the average human,

this giant fish simply ignores divers who swim up to it.

• (A) as large

• (B) is larger

• (C) many large

• (D) much larger

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The diet of a basking

28. shark__________ of fish and small animals such as squid, shrimp, and crabs.

• (A) resists

• (B) insists

• (C) consists

• (D) persists

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29. When it is hungry, it looks for places_____________

great numbers of these small animals can be found. Once

• (A) what

• (B) where

• (C) which

• (D) whose

30. of these small animals can be found. Once it locates an area________________ with fish, a basking shark simply opens its huge mouth and slowly swims through it.

• (A) a crowd

• (B) crowded

• (C) has crowded

• (D) it is crowded

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31.____________ into its mouth and continues out through a special filter structure that traps the small fish and other creatures.

• (A) Water flows

• (B) Flowing water

• (C) To flow water

• (D) Water flowing

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Although 32. this method ________________ the shark to move quickly,

• (A) does require not of eating

• (B) does not require of eating

• (C) of eating does not require

• (D) not of eating does require

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33. it still requires a lot of effort. _______________a basking

shark will filter up to two thousand tons of water per hour.

• (A) Enough food is obtained,

• (B) To obtain enough food,

• (C) Enough food obtaining,

• (D) It obtains enough food,

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CCSS.RI.11-12.3

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CCSS.RI.9-10.3

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