1) Which animal has difficulty passing the test detailed in this passage?
A) Sheep
B) Dolphins
C) Crows
D) Monkeys
2) According to the introduction to the article what is the common perception of sheep?
A) They are intelligent.
B) They are clever.
C) They are stupid.
D) They are cute.
3) Why were the sheep given these tests?
A) Because sheep will be used to test treatments.
B) Because sheep are underappreciated.
C) Because sheep will be genetically modified.
D) Because sheep are getting cleverer.
4) How many sheep were used in the tests?
A) 3
B) 7
C) 17
D) 23
5) What was used to get the sheep to choose a specific bucket?
A) Food in the bucket
B) Water in the bucket
C) Something pretty in the bucket
D) The colour of the bucket
6) What ‘requires a high level of mental control’?
A) The ability to remember where food is.
B) The ability to get stuck.
C) The ability to shift their attention.
D) The ability to remember colours.
7) Which part of the brain is used in ‘set-shifting’?
A) The prefrontal cortex
B) The cerebellum
C) The hypothalamus
D) The temporal lobe
8) According to the article what should we stop doing to sheep?
A) Underestimating them
B) Making fun of them
C) Eating them
D) Trusting them
Exercise 2 – Pollution-trawling voyage finds ocean's plastic 'soup'
Read the long reading passage 2 on page 71 of the course book and answer the following questions.
1) How large are the plastic particles found in the globe's five subtropical gyres?
A) No larger than your fingernail.
B) No larger than your head.
C) No larger than your finger.
D) No larger than your hand.
2) What are ‘POPs’?
A) persistent orange plumbs
B) persistent oligo-nucleotide particles
C) persistent organic pollutants
D) persistent organic particles
3) Where had the team just been?
A) The South Atlantic subtropical gyre
B)The Indian Ocean gyre
C) The South Pacific gyre
D) The North Atlantic gyre
4) Why might the samples not be representative of the total plastic content?
A) They can only collect plastic from below the surface
B) They can only collect bits they can see.
C) They can only collect plastic from the surface.
D) They can only collect when it is day time.
5) How many Lanternfish were collected?
A) around 600
B) around 65
C) around 660
D) around 1000
6) What did the plastic enriched diet result in, in the laboratory raised fish?
A) weight gain and stomach damage
B) weight loss and liver damage
C) weight loss and stomach damage
D) weight gain and liver damage
7) What do the Lagrangian drifting buoys resemble?
A) Jellyfish
B) Fish
C) Debris
D) Small bits of plastic
8) What would make the plastic in the oceans less of a problem?
A) If it collected in certain areas.
B) If was distributed evenly.
C) If it degraded faster.
D) If the pieces were bigger.