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      Choose the best answers.  Step  Fill in the blanks with the words from the box.
               1
   1.  What is the main idea of this passage?

 a. Prairie dogs need many rooms.

 b. Prairie dogs like to live together.

 c. Prairie dogs live in underground burrows.     Prairie Dog Burrows


                                  underground   holes
 2.  What do prairie dogs use to dig burrows?
                                       two      to three meters deep
 a. their teeth          b. their claws         c. their tails     two   holes   for going   in   and out


                                   tunnels and many useful         rooms
 3.  Prairie dog burrows are about    meters deep.

 a. two to three          b. four to five        c. six to seven

                                   in     underground         two       rooms       holes

 4.  Why do prairie dogs have listening rooms?

 a. to sleep in

 b. to care for their babies

 c. to listen for danger


             Step      Complete the summary with the words from the box.
               2

      Check true or false.
 T      F
                   Prairie dogs       make       underground homes. Their underground homes
 5.  Prairie dog burrows have long tunnels.
                   are called     burrows     . They are about two to three meters deep. There

 6.  Each burrow has a room for caring for prairie dog babies.             are also many rooms and   tunnels   inside them. The prairie dogs eat,


                       sleep     , and take care of their babies in different rooms. They also

                   listen for     danger     in the listening room.
      Write the correct answers.


 7.  Where is the prairie dogs’ listening room?
                                   danger      burrows       sleep     make      tunnels
 It is close to the   exit     hole  .



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