SPM Reading Test ( Part 2 )

Pitcher plants grow in ______ where the soil lacks some nutrients.

• points

• extents

• positions

• areas

Therefore, they get the nutrition they need by ____ insencts like flies, ants, and moths or even small frogs or reptiles.

• collecting

• consuming

• hunting

• digesting

Pitcher plants can be _____ in the rainforests of Borneo and the northern parts of Australia and Southeast Asia.

• given

• taken

• found

• shown

Petcher plants have a special structure called 'trap' taht ____ them to catch and digest insects!

• get

• allow

• obtain

• support

As its name suggest, the ____ iconic feature of the pitcher platn is a long, pitcher-shaped trap.

• very

• more

• extra

• most

The trap ___ from the plant's leaves.

• crawls

• closes

• moves

• extends

The Netpenthes, the tropical species of pitecher plants, is well-known for traps or 'pitchers' of increadible ______. Some of them are longer than 15 centimetres in diameter.

• sizes

• looks

• designs

• patterns

So how to pitcher plants catch their food? The walls of the pitcher cup produce nectar that _____ insects.

• interests

• attracts

• warns

• repels

Inside the cup is a liquid that kills the insect and dissolves its soft parts. The plant then ____ the nutrients through the walls of the cup.

• stores

• produces

• releases

• absorbs

If you get close enough to a pitcher plant, you might ____ the smell of rotting insects! The pitcher plant is truly such a unique plant.

• miss

• catch

• study

• view