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    Questions 12-19
    Section 3 • Guide to Reading Comprehension 329

    AH birds have feathers, and aH animals with feathers are birds.


    No other major group of animals is so easy to categorize. AH birds
    have wings, too, but wings are not peculiar to birds.
    (line) Many adaptations are found in both feathers and wings. Feathers
    (5) form the soft down of geese and ducks, the long decorative plumes
    of ostriches, and the strong flight feathers of eagles and hawks.
    Wings vary from the short, broad ones of chickens, which seJdom
    fly, to the long, slim ones of albatrosses, which spend almost aH
    their lives soaring on air currents. In penguins, wings have been
    (lO) modified into flippers and feathers into a waterproof covering. In
    kiwis, the wings are almost impossible to detect o
    Yet diversity among birds is not so striking as it is among
    mammals. The difference between a hummingbird and a penguin is
    immense, but hardly as startling as that between a bat and a whale.
    (15) It is variations in details rather than in fundamental patterns
    that have been important in the adaptation of birds lO many kinds of
    ecosystems.
    12. The word "categorize" in tine 2 is closest in meaning to
    ___ (A) appreciate
    _ _ _ (B) comprehend
    _ _ (C) classify
    ___ (D) visualize

    13. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase "peculiar to" in line 3?
    ___ (A) Unusual for
    ___ (B) Common to
    ___ (C) Necessary for
    ___ (D) Unique to

    14. The word "slim" in line 8 is closest in meaning to


    _ _ (A) slender
    _ _ (B) powerful
    _ _ (C) graceful
    _ _ (D) soft

    15. The word "detect" in line 11 is closest in meaning to


    _ _ (A) utilize
    _ _ _ (B) extend
    _ _ (C) observe
    _ _ (D) describe
    16. Which of the foHowing is closest in meaning to the word "diversity" in line 12?
    ___ (A) Function
    _ _ (B) Heredity
    _ _ (C) Specialty
    _ _ (D) Variety
    17. The word "hardly" in line 14 is closest in meaning lO
    _ _ (A) definitely
    _ _ _ (B) not nearly
    _ . _ (C) possibly
    ___. (D) not always

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