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NEED Secondary Comprehension

Form Three 
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Swaha Hindu College

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Amanda Seebaran

3. Form Class e.g. 3;2/3G *

3 Shanti

Instructions: Read the passage carefully and select the best

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choice from A,B,C or D. 

Endangered

    Tigers are the largest of all cat species. They grow up to eleven feet long and
weigh as

      much as 670 lbs. This makes tigers the third largest land carnivore. The only
larger land

      carnivores are polar bears and brown bears. Tigers are not only large they
are also fast

      and can sprint as fast as 40 miles per hour for short distances and leap as
far as 30 feet 

5    horizontally. This makes for an extremely dangerous pounce. You might not

think that 

      such large, fast, and ferocious creatures need help to survive, but they do.
The tiger is an        endangered species.

      Despite all of the tiger’s strengths, the future of the species is uncertain.
Tigers face a 

      very high risk of extinction and it is estimated that at the start of the 20th
century, there 

10  were over100,000 tigers living in the wild. By the turn of the century,
however, the 

      number of tigers outside of captivity dwindled to just over

3,000.Interestingly, the most 

      serious threats that tigers face come from a much smaller species, one with

an average 

      weight of around 140 lbs. That species is Homo sapiens, better known as

humans. 

      Humans threaten tigers in primarily two ways: hunting and destroying

habitat.

15  Humans have done considerable damage to the world’s tiger population
through 

      hunting, but perhaps more damage has been caused through the

destruction of habitat.        Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, all the way
from Turkey to the eastern coast of 
      Russia but over the past100 years, tigers have lost 93% of their historic
range. Instead of        spanning all the way across Asia, the tiger population is
now isolated in small pockets in  20  south and south-eastern Asia.

      This is because humans have drastically changed the environments. They

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have built 

      towns, cities and road and transit systems were created to connect these
towns and 

      cities. To feed the people living in these areas, forests and fields have been
cleared to 

      create farmland and large tracts of land have been strip-mined to yield

metals and other  25  materials used in manufacturing. All of these activities
have consumed habitats that at

      one time supported tigers.

4.     What “makes for an extremely dangerous pounce” (line 5)

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(1 Point)

A. That tigers are large and fast

B. They can sprint as fast as 40 miles per hour

C. They can leap as far as 30 feet horizontally

D. They grow up to eleven feet long

5. Why is the tiger considered an “endangered species”? (line 7)

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(1 Point)

A. The selfish behaviour of humans

B. The number of tigers outside of captivity has dwindled

C. The tiger faces risk of extinction

D. The tiger population is now isolated

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6. What does “strip-mined to yield metals” (line 24) indicate? *

(1 Point)

A.  Metals are extracted from the land

B. Metals are stored within the mines

C. The land is barren and bare

D. The land is fertile and productive

7. Which word is a suitable synonym for ‘primarily’(line 14) as

used in

 paragraph two? *
(1 Point)

A. Considerably

B. Mainly

C.  Significantly

D. Unlikely

8. Which line best illustrates the human as the main threat to the
tiger? *
(1 Point)

A. Humans destroyed habitats

B. Humans created transit systems

C. Humans drastically changed the environments

D. Humans have done considerable damage to the tiger population

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9. Where might this article most likely be found ?

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(1 Point)

A. Environmental Journal

B. Medical Journal

C. Science Magazine

D. Veterinarian Magazine

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