Passage Completion Questions and Answers

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A method by which an animal's colour or shape matches its surroundings is known as camouflage. To put it another way, it refers to an animal's capacity to conceal itself from its prey and predators. (1) ______. One notable example is the narrow-headed Madagascar frog Paradoxophylapalmata. The frog can blend in with the mud and tree trunks in its environment due to its brown and yellow colouring and rough texture. The leopard's spots and the tiger's stripes are so well disguised that it is difficult to tell if they are there until they move. (2) ______. In a similar vein, the praying mantis of Malaysia has the ability to change colour and appear to be a flower. The sloth that lives in the jungles of South America has a unique way of hiding. It has grooved hair that is coarse. Algae that are simple and green live in these grooves. This gives the sloth a green appearance and helps it hide from predators.

A. Animals can disguise themselves in a variety of ways to avoid detection by their enemies.
B. The shingleback lizard has a head-like appearance due to its short, bulky tail which makes the predator unsure which side to attack because the creature appears to have two heads.
C. The chameleon has the ability to change colour in order to blend in with its surroundings.

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A rabbit is a weak, timid animal that is always surrounded by numerous enemies. It is small, has fur, has a short tail, and has pointed ears. As a result, it has large ears that help it hear even the smallest sounds. (1) ______. Because of this, the rabbit is able to spot its enemies in time and flee to a safer location. By repeatedly licking its forepaws and rubbing them against the surface of its ears, a rabbit cleans its ears. To keep its ears clean, it does this. The desert is very hot during the day and very cold at night for the jackrabbit as he lives there. (2) ______. By controlling the flow of blood through the many blood vessels in its large, thin ears, it can lose heat when it is hot or take in heat when it is cold.

A. A rabbit has 28 teeth that never stop growing as it grows.
B. The jackrabbit's long ears not only let it hear enemies, but they also help it regulate its body temperature.
C. Nearly every sound wave that enters the air is picked up by the large ear and carried into the inner ear.

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Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Halvaceal. It is quite large, containing several hundred species that are native to warm temperate sub-tropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member species are often noted for their showy flowers and are commonly known as hibiscus sorrel and flor de Jamaica, or less widely known as rose mallow. (1) ________. The leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate, often with a toothed or lobed margin. The flowers are large, conspicuous, trumpet shaped with five or more petals, colour from white to pink, red, orange, purple or yellow and from 4-18 cm broad. Flower colour in certain species, such as H.mutabilis and H.tiliaceus changes with age. The fruit is a dry five lobed capsule, containing several seeds in each lobe, which are released, when the capsule splits open at maturity. It is of white and red colour. (2) ________.

A. The genus includes both, annual and perennial herbaceous plants, as wells as woody shrubs and small trees.
B. Tea is made from the Hibiscus flower, which is called Bissap in West Africa and Karkade in Egypt.
C. Hibiscus is an example of a complete flower.
D. These flowers attract humming birds and butterflies.

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To illustrate how yoga can lead to one's attainment of God, Patanjali uses a beautiful analogy. He compares our mind to the surface of a pond. We do not see the divine in ourselves because our mind is constantly agitated, just as we cannot see the jewel at the bottom of the pond because the breeze disturbs its surface. (1) ______. Also, one can see God within themselves if the mind is kept closed to the outside world. Scientists have only recently begun to acknowledge yoga's benefits. Experiments have now demonstrated that yoga practice can treat a variety of mental and physical ailments. Yoga practitioners do indeed acquire extraordinary powers, according to tests. For instance, they can survive for a very long time without food or oxygen. (2) ______. Several centuries later, Patanjali's ideas are finally getting the attention they deserve.

A. Currently, laboratories all over the world are conducting research to investigate the benefits of yoga further.
B. The human body has channels and centres that Patanjali refers to as nadi and chakra, respectively.
C. The jewel at the bottom can be seen if the surface of the pond is unaffected.

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In each of the following paragraph, a part of sentence is left unfinished. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of completing the sentence are indicated choose the best alterative among the four.