Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of thirty-one acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including The Hummingbirds' Gift, the National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, and the memoir The Good Good Pig, which was a New York Times bestseller.The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane . In 1958, scientists at the CDC made their first trip overseas. They are covered with modified scaleswe call them feathers. show chronological order. 25 Ned stared hard at the shed. A. so draw conclusions about the epidemiologists mentioned in the case study. Dr. Dowell will try to find out if the girl and her mother died of bird flu. The tracks had frozen and they crunched under Neds weight, but the cat didnt raise its head. food safety. Reading Terry Tempest Williams words, I gave thanks for all the many birds I have loved in my life: my parakeet Jerry; a cockatiel named Kokopelli who liked to sit on my head and whistle the National Geographic theme song when I was on the phone; my beloved Ladies. D. Ned read the lines several times before copying them down in his copybook. (line 61). Why hadnt he gone right up to it, looked at it close, touched its fur? Their active ingredient is a substance called capsaicin. C. Chili peppers are related to tomatoes and eggplants. Then answer questions 8-14. Beat the devil The nation -Alexander Cockburn. The plot. 9th Grade Lexile: 1190. That may be difficult to see when youre watching a fluffy chickadee at the feeder; but it is abundantly clear when you are crashing through the rainforest of Queensland, Australia, pursuing a 150-pound cassowary, a bird as tall as a man crowned with a helmet of bone on its head and a killer claw on each foot. Since the rescue is about Dr. X's heroism, the viewer is intended to learn about Dr. X and his work. If your nest is on the ground, as most game birds are, its a good idea to get your babies out of there as quickly as possible before someone comes to eat them. His name was Jerry. To settle any contest, a scoring system is required. The bottom line: Human beings send out sounds at much slower rates and lower frequencies, so the objects people can picture with echolocation must be much larger than It is organized point by point, to let servers know the consequences for failing to follow the rules. It was this that had made his hours in school so hard ever since he and Mr. Scully had seen the cat last autumn, this drawing away of his attention from everything that was going on around him. A. Gretchen gives the author advice, and the author learns from it. Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1416569848. The use of the words pinched look contributes to the tone of the story by making the house seem, A. tense If bats can distinguish prey as small as mosquitoes with echolocation, and some dolphins can detect small targets a hundred yards away, what are the ultimate capabilities of human beings like Ben and Kish? After the cow was killed, she was cut up. Night. We shared a common ancestor with even the most distant of our fellow placental mammals as recently as 100 million years ago. Chromatography can determine how much capsaicin is in a pepper. When my husband, Howard, The viewer gets a deeper understanding of the same topic. The viewer gets overwhelmed by conflicting information. implies that a breakthrough for AIDS is also possible. Specifically, these molecules target pain receptors of the type known as TRPA1. Their hearts look like those of crocodiles. So newborn game birds hatch covered in down, eyes open, and leave the nest within twenty-four hours. In scientific experiments, researchers have trained days-old chicks to find hidden food using both distant and nearby landmarks as cues. Identify two smilies located in the first paragraph of "The Fly." For each simile, explain its significance to the story. because it killed so many people 41. They've efficiently solved a sequence of puzzles that led them up to now, however they're now confronted with a puzzle that seems to be unsolvable. endobj The epic simile in this excerpt shows how helpless Odysseus's men are in the clutches of the Cyclops. Echolocation creates its own images. Chilies have since taken the culinary world by storm. A second fundamental truth of birds lends a title to the second chapter: Birds Are Dinosaurs. safety guides Red-hot romances, poolside fiction, and blockbuster picks, oh my! D. Experts now rely on a scale based on measuring consumer pain responses to wasabi and chili peppers. To show (Must give at least 4 valid terms), Vocabulary from the Questions on the Test. D. It provides a scientific explanation for the effects of consuming wasabi and chili peppers. If I was hanging out the laundry, they would check what was in the laundry basket. Verified . A team of scientists has solved an 87-year-old mystery. That's a U.S. government agency that tracks and combats deadly diseases around the world. 0l^~28K19[T@o|q$7["#kEqC4oi C. In school, Ben recognizes his classmates by their voices. (lines 41) She did so to describe the person whounlike the ornithologist, with his fancy university degreehasnt completed a formal course of avian study. 40 gone past Mr. Scullys place, thinking his own thoughts, while he, Ned, only a few yards away, had been searching for the cat. Read the passage from When Birds Get Flu by John DiConsiglio. B. Ned to be left behind by the other children They are related to the tomato and the eggplant. by John DiConsiglio. Dr. Dowell is an epidemiologist. We are only now starting to understand how birds accomplish these extraordinary feats, by way of one of our most ordinary and unappreciated birds, the pigeonthe hero of yet another chapter. Thanks that the worst is now over. <>/Metadata 590 0 R/ViewerPreferences 591 0 R>> When I was in seventh grage, my family had Then answer questions 29 through 35. endobj The men scribbling furiously on their notepads so they can publish every stumble, sprain, and sniffle.This was the world of the female athletes in the 1928 Amsterdam . Birds teach us reverencea virtue which, writes classicist and philosopher Paul Woodruff, begins in a deep understanding of human limitations. No beings show us our limitations better than do the birds. B. Chili peppers are used in many different countries. Cause-and-effect signal words help the reader to add supplemental information that explains the situation Ben doesnt remember how or when he began clicking, but hes developed his abilities to such an extent that aside from echolocation, he can rapidly *. Be creative and honest. As a child she got lost in her own backyard after her family moved to a new house, so she is wondering how six-week old chicks could be expected to recognize a new place as their home and not stray from it. H, 100 Definition of "mesa". This text is considered to be worthy of students' time to read and also meets the expectations for text complexity at grade 9. My heart was filled with awe. Pepper pungencies are also compared by using chromatography. The last ancestor we shared with the birds, however, traces back 220-240 million years ago. B. Hed pierce the husk with his lower mandible and peel the outer husk away by forcing the seed against his ridged palate and twirling it with his strong, muscular tongue. The mother died, too. D. has not planned how she will teach the chicks to adjust to a new environment. a subheading A team went to Southeast Asia to respond to an epidemic of smallpox and cholera. B. Gretchen gives the author advice, and the author learns from it. Could an illness from birds cause another flu pandemic? Excerpt from . 4 0 obj Then answer questions 36 through 42. why epidemics are dangerous. Taking a bribe is no _____ but a serious infraction of ethics. Daily life 2a A Travel information office Open 24 hours B Please arrive at least 10 minutes before Food poisoning is uncomfortable for people but not a very serious illness. How do lines 51 through 53 develop a key concept of the article? xYs+g$5c;4c;QVU4* ]]X[X}w-u/X\wzOi][7?}=h^/b^g/je=t?j[c*vuW^i2W}. {^IPWS}!bWYSLZxf h Y)-j^}1xi6I2Boy_7uw5kVZlMFx@ X5U%%P;@zl7l}L6osm_oz{=SVi1}ldV|'d RJy"85(Pco-wU_3 Lob's Girl by Joan Aiken <> Remove the word that makes it a dependent clause. What is "A daughter wanted to eat dinner with her dad. A. by using a comparison to suggest the echolocation potential of humans He was raised to believe he could do pretty much anything. (lines 44 and 45) D. what he can tell you about an objects qualities is sometimes astonishingly thorough. (lines 49 and 50). endobj Once we let them out, would they even recognize their space in the barn and go back in it? They share more than ninety-eight percent of our DNA. And of course I loved that Jerry could fly. It is organized step by step, to help servers understand the process for requesting new attire. Part of the process for evaluating a video is Read this sentence from lines 17 and 18. The flu is spread by soldiers returning home from World War I. That came later and it was not the result of any physical change in the landscape, but the outcome of a change in social relationships among their human friends. show different locations. Just as I was beginning to research this book, my friend Gretchen Vogel called me with an unusual suggestion: that we should go to church together. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/TrimBox[ 0 0 612 792]/Type/Page>> They create curiousity by inviting the reader to provide an opinion on the two condiments D. comparing descriptions of the heat a human subject feels while drinking chili pepper juice. [ 8 0 R ] You must state 4 important things. B. distinguish among more sounds Gretchen and I joined six other people in the congregation that Sunday. Under the normal growing conditions, this ingredient is completely harmless. safety manuals Japan, for example, tests a sample from every cow that will be used for food. by John DiConsiglio. More than 25 million people worldwide have died of the AIDS pandemic since 1981. An 11-year-old girl had fallen ill after playing with some sick chickens. Unfortunately, Scoville ratings are not applicable to wasabi. Hughes knew that the meat from a single cow couldn't make very many people sick. AE|E`&[X to emphasize the drop in life expectancy in Africa due to HIV/AIDS How does the authors attitude toward the chickens change from the beginning of the passage to the end? Presiding was a visiting pastor, Reverend Elaine Bomford. +kZdY v)2KyAn.UKWW,>XEMl^!% j^}wbUN= {;/W!sr+RBnA4.-K]_Z 1996 A Bad Burger B. a numbered list 15 But how do they know? I asked. An eruption of It is time to move again. by Mary Beth Cox. by John DiConsiglio. show different kinds of data at once. We dont know them as individuals. Which phrase from the passage contains the central idea? Bomford asked us to speak with her words fromTerry Tempest Williams book, Refuge. Read the excerpt from the supporting text "Disease Central" in When Birds Get Flu by John DiConsiglio. 23. to alert the reader about the dangers of mad cow disease If two chili peppers have the same amount of capsaicin, it be assumed that those peppers are equally hot. C. by describing why using echolocation benefits bats and dolphins in unique ways D. by describing how each species uses echolocation differently, 31. You can see with your nose and your ears.You cant use your eyes anymore, but you have your hands and your nose and your ears.. reinforce the case study's point that chickens are dangerous. Mr. Scullys shades were drawn the house had a pinched look as though it felt the cold. The author uses this passage to help the reader focus on ]J But they changed his mind. D. It cautions that wasabi causes an intense repeated attack occuring over time. There are birds who can even speak to us meaningfully in our own languagesomething that, many scientists believe, even our close hominid cousins, the Neanderthals, probably could not do. endobj bold words In the hospital, her mother held her for hours. But instinct is not stupidity. To avoid food poisoning, prepare food properly. understand the subjects of a text. Lines 20 through 24 contribute to the development of the plot by, A. showing that Ned and Mr. Scully are friends Lines 49 through 59 develop the key idea that chickens raised by humans, A. are curious about the activities of their caregivers The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is serious. It doesnt work for allyl But no one noticed, and she was later sold to a ranch in Washington State. 50 Capsaicin molecules interact with pain receptors of the type TRPV1. I have waited a long time to write this book. D. Some animals are known for using echolocation to find food. 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