activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about the praying mantis. Let's get to know this insect better? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Unlike crickets, barnacles and grasshoppers, praying mantises belong to another animal order and therefore do not have the typical jumping legs. However, they acquired a decisive limb: a kind of arm covered with “thorns” with very strong muscles, capable of grasping and capturing prey. Faced with such a sudden change in appearance, there are marked differences in the menu of these animals as well.
According to mantis biologist César Favacho, the animals are voracious predators capable of eating even individuals of the same species. “Of course, they eat everything they can subdue, but they usually feed on smaller insects and arachnids. There are some records of praying mantises eating even small amphibians, lizards or birds (such as hummingbirds)”, he defines.
As in most species, only males have wings, they become, in the majority, totally dependent on the area where they occupy. In these environments, unlike other beings, they do not hide: they remain motionless at the slightest sign of prey or predator. Another difference lies in the praying mantis' triangular and extremely flexible head, which guarantees them the possibility of even “looking over their shoulders”, as the specialist defines it.
Gabriela Brumatti. "People's Land".
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Question 1 - Watch:
“[…] they don’t have the typical jumping legs.”
In this passage, the author refers to:
( ) to crickets.
( ) to praying mantises.
( ) to hopes and locusts.
Question 2 – Underline the term used to intensify below:
“Faced with such a sudden change in appearance […]”
Question 3 – The segment “[…] a kind of arm covered in ‘thorns’ with very strong muscles […]” is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 4 – According to the text, the praying mantises:
( ) commonly “feed on smaller insects and arachnids”.
( ) exclusively “feed on smaller insects and arachnids”.
( ) occasionally “feed on smaller insects and arachnids”.
Question 5 – In the text, the information in parentheses is an example of:
( ) “birds”.
( ) “amphibians”.
( ) “lizards”.
Question 6 - Read back:
“As in most species, only males have wings., become, for the most part, totally dependent on the area where they occupy.”
The highlighted passage reads:
( ) a cause.
( ) a purpose.
( ) a consequence.
Question 7 - In “In these environments, unlike other beings, they do not hide: they remain immobile at the slightest sign of prey or predator.”, the colon introduces:
( ) a deduction.
( ) a conclusion.
( ) one explanation.
Question 8 - According to the expert quoted in the text, what assures praying mantises “the possibility of even ‘looking over their shoulders’?
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
