activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about elephants. Let's get to know these animals better? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
When in danger, elephants form a circle where the strongest protect the weakest. They are very attached to each other, and seem to grieve over the death of a member of the group.
These mammals have keen hearing and can easily detect the footsteps of a mouse.
Its tusks weigh over 100 kilograms.
An elephant eats 125 kilograms of plants, grass and foliage, and drinks 200 liters of water a day. Its trunk sucks up 10 liters of water at once.
These animals are very sociable. When they cross their trunks, they are showing signs of mutual affection.
[…]
The elephant's gestation is the longest among mammals: it takes 22 months (almost two years!).
Elephants are fascinated by the bones of other dead elephants. They spend hours admiring and exploring the material. There has never been any record, however, of the existence of an “elephant graveyard”, as the popular myth claims.
[…]
Marcelo Duarte. "Guide for the Curious". (With cuts and adaptations).
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Question 1 - In the passage “They are very attached to each other, and seem to suffer from the death of a member of the group.”, the author of the text refers to:
Question 2 – The excerpt “These mammals have keen hearing […]” is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 3 – In the segment […] and can easily to detect the steps of a mouse.”, the underlined verb could be replaced by:
( ) "delete".
( ) "identify".
( ) "to accompany".
Question 4 – Watch:
“An elephant eats 125 kilograms of plants, grass and foliage, and drinks 200 liters of water a day.”
In this fragment, the word “e” indicates:
( ) facts that add up.
( ) facts that alternate.
( ) facts that contrast.
Question 5 – In the part “These animals are much sociable.”, the highlighted term was used for:
( ) to define.
( ) intensify.
( ) additional.
Question 6 - The exclamation point, after “The elephant's gestation is the longest among mammals: it takes 22 months (almost two years!).
( ) relief.
( ) fear.
( ) admiration.
Question 7 - In "Never there was no record, however, of the existence of an ‘elephant graveyard’ […]”, the underlined word expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 8 - In the fragment “[…] as the popular myth preaches.”, the word “how”:
( ) introduces an example.
( ) expresses a conformity.
( ) establishes a comparison.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.