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Question 1
Which of the following represents fact(s) from the text?
Answer: Correct!
Answer: Incorrect. The answers are:
A. Humans have existed for 200,000 years on Earth.
C. The passenger pigeon, the Tasmanian tiger and, most recently, the baiji, a freshwater dolphin in China are all gone forever.
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A. Humans have existed for 200,000 years on Earth.
C. The passenger pigeon, the Tasmanian tiger and, most recently, the baiji, a freshwater dolphin in China are all gone forever.
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Answer: Incorrect. Try again.
Question 2
Which of the following represents reasoned judgement(s) from the text?
Answer: Correct!
Answer: Incorrect. The answers are:
B. Early man helped hunt the biggest animals — woolly mammoths, giant kangaroos and giant sloths — to extinction.
D. According to the study in Science, their numbers fell by half over the past 35 years.
E. This the fastest extinction event on record, even if it is not yet a mass die-off.
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B. Early man helped hunt the biggest animals — woolly mammoths, giant kangaroos and giant sloths — to extinction.
D. According to the study in Science, their numbers fell by half over the past 35 years.
E. This the fastest extinction event on record, even if it is not yet a mass die-off.
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Question 3
Which of the following represents reasoned speculation from the text?
Answer: Correct!
Answer: Incorrect. The answers are:
F. The biggest animals still left on the planet — elephants, tigers, whales, among others — are most at risk.
G. And we humans have shown no desire to stop the activities that drive extinction.
F. The biggest animals still left on the planet — elephants, tigers, whales, among others — are most at risk.
G. And we humans have shown no desire to stop the activities that drive extinction.
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