Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the bagrinho. Be careful when stepping on any seemingly lifeless puddle, it can be the home of some animated ones, like the catfish! Are we going to meet this species of fish, which is very difficult to find? Then read the text "Don't step in the puddle!" Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Carefully read the text below. Then answer the proposed questions:
Oops! Be careful when stepping on any seemingly lifeless puddle, it can be the home of some animated ones, like the catfish! To give you an idea, this fish is so rare that only one specimen of this species, collected in 1940, in the Ribeira do Iguape river basin, in São Paulo, was known by the researchers. In 2007, however, a new population was discovered in a small stream in the same region.
But what makes this species of catfish so hard to find, to the point of being considered endangered? First, he prefers small, shallow streams, small pools that can easily be polluted. Another problem is that these streams are usually found in lowland forests in the Mata region. Atlantic and most of what's left of the biome is in the mountains, where the species naturally doesn't occurs.
The bagrinhos need preserved streams to live and the vegetation around it too, because it prevents the water temperature from getting too high on hot days and prevents sand and mud from entering the Water.
O Field stripe it lives in a small stream of clear water about a meter wide and only four inches deep and many leaves that have fallen from the vegetation. The small fish uses these dead leaves to hide, and can even bury itself at the bottom of the stream when it feels threatened. There, it feeds on small invertebrates, like some insects that can fall into water.
The conservation of nature makes all the difference for any kind of living being, be it for a plant, a catfish or even for us humans. Think about it!
Sergio Maia Q. Lima, Jean Carlos Miranda and Leandro Villa-Verde. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 264. Available in: .
Question 1 - In the passage “[…] this fish is So rare that only one specimen of this species […]”, the underlined term was used for:
( ) define a catfish characteristic.
( ) intensify a characteristic of the catfish.
( ) complement a characteristic of the catfish.
Question 2 - Reread this text fragment:
“Oops! Be careful when stepping in any seemingly lifeless puddle, _________ it could be the home of some animated ones, like the baginho!”
In view of the relationship of meaning established in the above fragment, the space could be filled with:
( ) "but".
( ) "because".
( ) "therefore".
Question 3 - In the segment "Baggettes need preserved streams to live […]", the underlined part indicates:
( ) condition.
( ) goal.
( ) consequence.
Question 4 – The expression Field stripe appears in italics because:
( ) is little known.
( ) is of foreign origin.
( ) is misspelled.
Question 5 - According to the text, “There, it feeds on small invertebrates, like some insects that can fall into water.”
( ) "in the mountains".
( ) “in a small stream of clear water”.
( ) “at the bottom of the stream”.
Question 6 – The authors close the text with:
( ) an alarming fact.
( ) an invitation to reflection.
( ) a hypothesis about the subject discussed.
Question 7 – The text "Don't step in the puddle!" performs function:
( ) didactic.
( ) scientific.
( ) journalistic.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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