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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. What are the characteristics of mammals?
a. They have hair.
b. They feed milk to their young.

c. They are warm-blooded.
d. all of the above

2. What is mentioned first in the article?

a. Most mammals are born alive from their mother’s body.
b. They can live in various places because they are warm-blooded.
c. Evaporation of perspiration cools the skin and keeps the body

temperature in its normal range.
d. Mammals breathe with lungs.

3. Why is hair so important to mammals?

a. Hair cools or warms the skin and keeps the body temperature in its
normal range.
b. Hair is there to protect the mammal against any predators.
c. Hair helps the mammal camouflage into its environment.
d. all of the above

4. The article says mammals are different from other vertebrates
because
a. they have skin

b. they have fur
c. they have nails
d. they have lungs to breathe

5. How does perspiring help you keep cool?
a. Perspiring does not help you keep cool.
b. When perspiration evaporates, it cools the skin.

c. Perspiring opens up special glands in your body that keep you cool.
d. The hair on your body traps the sweat and keeps you cool.

6. Which sentence uses the word range in the same way it is used in
the article?

a. Lucas went to a shooting range to test out his new gun.
b. They ranged themselves with the liberals.
c. What price range do you have in mind?
d. They ranged the whole land, but still could not find Toby.

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