Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about the American feline. According to the author, he is skittish and prefers to walk and eat at night. What cat is this, huh? The cat, the jaguar or the ocelot? Let's find out? To do this, read the text carefully and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Carefully read the text. Then answer the proposed interpretative questions:
If, by the physical resemblance, you are able to bet that the ocelot is from the same family as the cats and jaguars, you are right on target! This wild feline, with a golden-yellow fur and dark spots, inhabits several regions of North, Central and South America – mainly forests. But coming across an animal like this is not easy, as it is skittish and prefers to walk and feed at night.
In general, whoever meets an ocelot thinks he is facing a baby jaguar. A more careful look, however, realizes that, despite being painted like the jaguar, the ocelot has some stripes black on the neck and near the belly and its ears, eyes and muzzle are more like a cat's domestic.
Sighting an ocelot is increasingly rare, even for animal specialists: hunting and the destruction of its habitat has been reducing the population of this animal, especially outside the Amazon.
Despite all this, two scientists accomplished a great feat: in addition to finding an ocelot, they discovered an individual unlike any other – practically all white! The registration took place in Boqueron, Paraguay. Researchers Rocky McBride and Anthony Giordano spotted a female ocelot with white fur three times between 2004 and 2006. They presented a photo of the animal in 2010.
But what is the explanation for this female being white? Is she albino? In truth no. Generally, albinos have all-white fur, plus pink skin and eyes. The white ocelot seen in Paraguay on leukism, a genetic alteration different from albinism. Leukistic animals have only part of their fur, scales or white feathers, while their skin and eyes are normal in color. A well-known case of leukism is that of white tigers. But in Ocelot no one had seen this type of mutation!
If for us scientists, finding an ocelot in the wild is already a matter of luck, finding an almost all white one is like winning the lottery!
Henrique Caldeira Costa. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 221. Available in: .
Question 1 - In the passage “[…] he is skittish and prefers to walk and eat at night.”, the author of the text refers to the animal:
( ) cat.
( ) Jaguar.
( ) Ocelot.
Question 2 - According to the text, seeing an ocelot is increasingly rare. Because?
A:
Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] two scientists performed a great feat […]”, the underlined word could be replaced by:
( ) “feat”.
( ) “discovery”.
( ) "presentation".
Question 4 – In the segment "Usually, albinos have all white fur, in addition to pink skin and eyes.”, the term underlined was used to:
( ) characterize a being.
( ) explain an expression.
( ) indicate a circumstance.
Question 5 - In the part "But in Ocelot no one had seen this kind of mutation!”, the highlighted expression resumes:
( ) albinism.
( ) leukism.
( ) none of the above.
Question 6 – In “[…] bumping into an almost all white one is like winning the lottery!”, the author:
( ) gives an example of a fact.
( ) indicates the cause of a fact.
( ) makes a comparison between facts.
Question 7 – The text "American Cat" was constructed with a language:
( ) poetic.
( ) didactic.
( ) scientific.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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