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- 1. Multiple Choice
Select the Sentences or phrase from paragraphs 4-5 that shows city foxes "do better" than their cousins in the country.
"San Joaquin kit foxes are endangered."
"but urban kit foxes are doing better than their country kin."
"City foxes weigh more and live longer."
"Dr. Brian Cypher has been studying these tiny cousins of the dag for more than 10 years."
- 2. Multiple Choice
Select the reasons kit foxes survive in the cities.
They live at the edge of town.
They make good pets for people.
They like to play on playgrounds.
There is plenty of food for them to eat.
There are safe places for them to live.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which sentence Best states the main idea of the passage?
Kit foxes eat squirrels, mice, and people's leftover food.
Scientists study kit foxes by tracking them in grasslands.
San Joaquin offers plenty of open space for kit foxes to roam.
Kit foxes do well in cities if they have food and places to live.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Select the word that correctly complete this sentence.
Golf courses make good homes for kit foxes because grass is blank than dirt, because it is blank at night, and because they can find blank to eat.
longer, dark, cats and coyotes
cooler, quiet, squirrels and insects
greener, busy, trees and flowers
cooler, scary, insects
- 5. Multiple Choice
Using the information from the passage, for each kind of animal choose one of the descriptions below.
Kit Foxes
like to eat foxes
are food for kit foxes
can weigh up to 15 pounds
are related to dogs.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Using the information from the passage, for each kind of animal choose one of the descriptions below.
Bobcats
like to eat kit foxes
are food for kit foxes
can weigh up to 15 pounds
are related to dogs
- 7. Multiple Choice
Using the information from the passage, for each kind of animal choose one of the descriptions below.
Squirrels
like to eat kit foxes
are food for kit foxes
can weugh up to 15 pounds
are related to dog
- 8. Multiple Choice
Using the information from the passage, for each kind of animal choose one of the descriptions below.
House Cats
like to eat kit foxes
are fod for kit foxes
can weigh up to 15 pounds
are related to dogs
- 9. Multiple Choice
Read this sentence from the last paragraph of the passage.
If they do, they will help this endangered animal outfox its threats and survive.
Which word from the passage is the best synonym for threats?
areas
citizens
dangers
chambers
- 10. Multiple Choice
How do the first two paragraphs introduce the rest of the passage?
They describe why foxes leave their country homes.
They compare foxes to other animals that live in the city.
They explain the problems facing foxes and their solutions.
They help readers picture Ms. Van Horn Job looking for a fox.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Based on the information from the passage, select the cause for the effect.
Effect: Builders put plastic pipes in new walls.
They need to track the foxes to help them.
Foxes refer to hunt when it is cool at night.
Foxes can get trapped in small areas.
They want to protect kit foxes.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Based on the information from the passage, select the cause for the effect.
Effect: Foxes like to live on golf courses.
They need to track the foxes to help them.
Foxes refer to hunt when it is cool at night.
Foxes can get trapped in small areas.
They want to protect kit foxes.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Based on the information from the passage, select the cause for the effect.
Effect: Golf course owners build underground dens.
They need to track the foxes to help them.
Foxes refer to hunt when it is cool at night.
Foxes can get trapped in small areas.
They want to protect kit foxes.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Based on the information from the passage, select the cause for the effect.
Effect: Researchers put on collars on foxes.
They need to track the foxes to help them.
Foxes refer to hunt when it is cool at night.
Foxes can get trapped in small areas.
They want to protect kit foxes.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Select the sentence from paragraph 1-2 that shows when kit foxes are most active.
"The temperature is 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and the time is not even noon yet."
"Finally, she finds what she is looking for: a hole in the ground."
"Curled up in a chamber several feet underground, the mother and her pups hide from the heat."
"In the cool of the evening, they will crawl from their den and look for food."
- 16. Multiple Choice
Choose the word or phrase for each blank to complete the sentence.
The Seven Oaks Country Club built Blank made of plastic pipes and Blank chambers. They also built new homes for Blank that included plastic pipes under the walls for the foxes.
golf clubs, beautiful, bobcats
fox dens, underground, people
trash cans, enormous, squirrels
fox dens, underground, house cats
- 17. Multiple Choice
Read the sentence from paragraph 2.
This hole does not have a golf ball in it. Instead, it cradles the smallest fox in North America, the San Joaquin ( wakeen) kit fox.
Select the meaning the author suggests by using the word cradles to describe the hole.
The fox is a large animal.
The only food is leftovers.
The hole is deep underground.
The hole is holding something gently.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The following question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.
Part A
Read this sentence from paragraph 1.
The tracker shades her eyes from the bright sun and scans the golf course.
Which word has nearly the same meaning as scans?
searches
darkens
travels
mows
- 19. Multiple Choice
Part B
Which phrase from paragraph 1 Best helps you understand the meaning of scans in Part A?
"temperature is 103 degrees"
"time is not even noon yet"
"finds what she is looking for"
"a hole in the ground"
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