i-Ready 6 Lesson 2 Part 5

Which sentence should not be included in a summary of the article?

• It is fun to watch the spiders in the backyard

• It is common to find spiders in outdoor areas

• Spiders spin webs that help them catch their prey

• Spiders are useful because they consume harmful insects

Which is the best summary of paragraph 4-6

• The garden spider weaves an elegant orb web. The web looks like a bicycle wheel. Other species of spiders also create webs with silk spun from their abdomen.

• Spiders spin silk to weave their webs. When an insect encounters the silky thread, it might become the spiders meal. Different sorts of spider spin different types of webs

• The spider uses its rear legs to reel out its silk and then weaves a web. Spiders silk is even stronger than steel. The garden spider makes tow kinds of silk to trap its insect prey.

• Spider silk is made of protein. The silk creates a strong web that might have a tripwire. Spiders have oily feet. A spider's bite is full of venom.

According to the article where do spiders live

• only outdoors

• in trees

• dessert, caves, high mountain peaks and under water

• in wet dark places

Why are spiders important?

• they control frog population

• spiders eat ants that annoy us

• they eat mosquitoes and yellow flies

Spiders are in the same family as

• scorpions, ticks and mites

• daddy long legs, caterpillars and ants

• ants, Beatles and caterpillars

• roaches, beetles and lady bugs

Spiders produce silk in their

• hing legs

• abdomen

• tentacles

• head

How are arachnids and insets different?

• Arachnids eat insects and insects eat arachnids

• Arachnids are well adapted and insets are not

• Arachnids have exoskeletons , while insects don't

• Arachnids have two main body parts and eight legs, while insects have three main body parts and six legs

What does "reel out" mean as used in the text

• pass by

• to unwind

• trap

• tangle up

Which claim from the text is not well supported?

• "spiders live everywhere"

• "most spiders are small and harmless to humans"

• "spiders have a cleaver tool for catching prey"

• "Spiders make different kinds of silk"

Wandering spiders are different because

• they do not eat insects

• their eye sight is poor

• they do not build webs to catch their prey

• they are harmful to humans