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Humans rarely

encounter frilled sharks, which prefer to


remain in the oceans' depths, up to 5,000 Thought to be the largest arthropods on
feet (1,500 meters) below the surface. Earth, giant spider crabs spend their time
Considered living fossils, frilled sharks foraging on the ocean floor up to a
bear many physical characteristics of thousand feet (300 meters) deep. These
ancestors who swam the seas in the time rare, leggy behemoths, native to the
of the dinosaurs. This 5.3-foot (1.6-meter) waters off Japan, can measure up to 12
specimen was found in shallow water in feet (3.7 meters) from claw tip to claw tip.
Japan in 2007 and transferred to a marine This five-foot (1.5-meter) specimen was
park. It died hours after being caught. photographed in Japan's Sagami Bay.

The sinister-looking Atlantic wolffish The nightmarish fangtooth is among the


makes its home in the rocky coastal deepest-living fish ever discovered. The
depths up to 1,600 feet (500 meters) fish's normal habitat ranges as high as
below. Reaching 5 feet (1.5 meters) long, about 6,500 feet (2,000 meters), but it
wolffish have conspicuous dentition suited has been found swimming at icy, crushing
to a diet of hard-shelled mollusks, crabs, depths near 16,500 feet (5,000 meters).
and sea urchins. This mated pair was found Fangtooth fish reach only about six inches
in a deep-sea den off the coast of Maine. (16 centimeters) long, but their namesake
teeth are the largest, proportionate to
body size, of any fish.
Answer the following questions:

Can humans easily find frilled shark? Why?


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Where do Giant Spiders live?

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What is the deepest fish ever found?

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4. What do wolffish eat?

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B. True or False and correct the false sentences:

1. Frilled shark was found in deep water in Japan. ( )

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2. Giant spider crab can measure up to 12 meters. ( )

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3. Fangtooth's teeth are extremely large. ( )

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C. Find from the text D. Choose the correct answer:

(a) Two adjectives: (1) sinister means :

……………………..………., ………………………….. a. bad b. scare c. evil

(b) Two adverbs: (2) nightmarish means:

……………………….……, ………………………..……. a. frightening b. awful c. dangerous

(c) Two proper nouns: (3) discovered antonym:

……………………………, ………………………………. a. found b. lost c. disappeared

(d) White shark grow to …………………….. (4) distinction means:


feet.
a. difference b. similar c. important

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