CFU #2: Unit #3 Test REVIEW

Which sentence from the excerpt from the text Hope for Animals and Their World best supports the idea that it is important to protect endangered species?

• ” Some, such as butterflies, are admired and loved for their beauty (though people tend to be less interested in or even repelled by their caterpillars)." (paragraph 1)

• "Unfortunately the weapons of choice have been chemical pesticides—and this has led to horrific damage of all too many ecosystems..." (paragraph 1)

• "In many places people feast on termites, locusts, and beetle larvae—even I have tasted these things!" (paragraph 4)

• "The American burying beetle is but one of the millions of insects

  and other invertebrates1

  that play such a major, though seldom

  acknowledged, role in the maintenance of habitats and ecosystems." (paragraph 1)

Why does the author of the excerpt from the article "Hope for Animals and Their World" include rhetorical question and an answer in the second section, paragraph 10?

• To introduce the importance of the beetle.

• To prove that the beetle is not endangered.

• To demonstrate the beetle's way of life.

• To reveal the various kinds of bettles.

How does the author organize the excerpt from the article "Hope for Animals and Their World"?

• The author outlines the ways in which the beetle contributes to our ecosystem so that we are able to function.

• The author offers statistics about the beetle's contribution to our ecosystem and how they are necessary.

• The author describes why the beetle is important and then explains the lack of interest in preserving them.

• The author explains how beetles are part of the ecosystem and then appeals to the reader's senses with imagery.

Based on the selection from the excerpt Hope for Animals and Their World, with which statement would the author most likely agree?

• Nature is terrifying, yet it is essential to the cycle of life.

• Nature is magical and necessary for our survival.

• The most important thing about nature is that it is always changing.

• The movement to protect endangered species is becoming obsolete.

In paragraph 16 from Hope for Animals and Their World:

Lou told me that he really enjoys teaching children about insects. We agreed that it does not take much to trigger their interest—children are naturally curious. And “creepy-crawlies,” although they may elicit fear and horror, hold a real fascination for them. I told Lou I had spent hours as a child watching spiders, dragonflies, bumblebees, and the like. My son was fascinated as a little boy to watch ants as they set out in an orderly column to raid a termite nest, and returned each bearing an unfortunate victim in its mandibles. And my sister’s three-year-old grandson, after watching a snail crawling over the ground, suddenly placed it on the windowpane and rushed indoors to look through the glass, clearly fascinated and curious about the mechanism that enabled the creature to glide forward, as if by magic.

Why does the author point out that Lou enjoys teaching children about insects?

• To understand why children are curious about endangered species.

• To explain how educating children is the solution to preserving endangered species.

• To show the impact a child's curiosity can have in the preservation of endangered species.

• To prove that children and make a difference in the preservation of endangered species.

Which change should be made in the sentence below?

Bees pollinate the vast majority of our food crops, and the current devistation of hives in North America and Europe is causing real anxiety.

• Change our to are

• Change devistation to devastation

• Change Europe to europe

• Delete the comma after crops

How should the sentence below be change?

As he begins talking about the beetles, it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect spokesman!

• Change begins to began

• Change it to their

• Delete the comma after beetles

• Change spokesman to Spokesman

What is the correct way to rewrite the sentence below?

As he began talking about the beetles it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect spokesman!

• As he began talking about the beetles it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect spokesman.

• As he began talking, about the beetles, it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect Spokesman!

• As he began talking about the beetles, it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect spokesman!

• As he began, talking, about the beetles it was immediately apparent that they had the perfect spokesman.

What change is needed in the sentence below?

How absolutely amazing—an insect species' in which mother and father care for their young together!

• Change which to whitch

• Delete the dash between amazing and an

• Change species' to species

• Change care to caring

What change should be made in the sentence below?

“Somebody needs to be out there saving this critters [the burying beetles],

• Change needs to need

• Delete the brackets

• Change this to these

• Change critters to Critters