Ants Part 2

6. What is the author's purpose in paragraphs 5-7?

• A. to persuade the reader to stay away from some types of ants

• B. to describe the different types of insects that can come into ant homes

• C. to describe the way that some ants can be hard to see because of their speed

• D. to inform the reader about certain types of fluids that ants can get from insects

7. What does carnivorous mean as it is used in paragraph 9?

• A. feeding on grass and plants

• B. feeding on animals

• C. feeding on animals and plants

• D. feeding on vegetables

8. Look at the photograph and caption below.

Which aspect of an ant does the photograph best help you to understand?

• A. the way the ant uses its feelers for communication

• B. the way the ants retrieve saccharine juices from aphids and plant lice

• C. the way the ants can maintain odd positions to clean themselves

• D. the way the ants sometimes collect grains and store them for food

9. Which quotation provides evidence for the claim in paragraph 1 that ants can be "shrewdly deceptive"?

• A. "One Asiatic ant species constructs summer houses of leaves by using the sticky fluid from larvae." (paragraph 3)

• B. "These ants guard each entrance to the nest, with the ant's head filling the opening and camouflaging itself by resembling the nearby bark." (paragraph 4)

• C. "The fact that they are practically blind does not seem to interfere with their destruction." (paragraph 9)

• D. "Some of the American species are thought to choose what they want, winnowing their grain." (paragraph 10)

10. Using the information from the passage, match each word listed on the top with its meaning on the bottom.

• eat up

• facilitate (paragraph 11)

• help with

• devour (paragraph 6)

• bond

• inhibit (paragraph 8)

• leave

• cement (paragraph 3)

• restrict

• deposit (paragraph 10)