Fireflies are the best insects. They do not bite or sting people. Fireflies eat nectar from plants. They glow at night and are easy to catch. People of all ages enjoy watching fireflies light up the summer nights.  Which statement from the passage best shows the author's point of view?*"Fireflies eat nectar from plants.""They do not bite or sting people.""Fireflies are the best insects.""They glow at night . . ."

Read the following passage to answer Questions 10 to 14We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do moreharm than good. Man continually wages war on them, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases ordevour his crops. They sting or bite without provocation, they fly uninvited into our rooms on summernights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects likespiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases ourunderstanding without dispelling our fears. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organisedsociety does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of themcrawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. No matter how much we like honey, or how much wehave read about the uncanny sense of direction which bees possess, we have a horror of being stung.Most of our fears are unreasonable, but they are difficult to erase. At the same time, however, insectsare strangely fascinating.10. Find a word which means ‘large groups’.A. DevourB. ProvocationC. RevulsionD. Hordes11. Most of man’s fears of insects are?A. UnreasonableB. IllogicalC. ReasonableD. Logical12. Why does man continually wage war on insects?A. They contaminate his food.B. They carry diseases.C. They devour his crops.D. All of the aboveYear 8 – Reading Comprehension © James An College Page413. Insects as creatures are?A. ImportantB. NecessaryC. UnnecessaryD. Essential14. Our attitude towards insects is based on:A. LoveB. HatredC. FearD. Ignorance

In 2017, scientists James Morin and Todd Oakley discovered sea fireflies, a new species of crustaceans that glow in the dark. The ------- are synchronous light displays that act as important courtship rituals.Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?fireflies’ light showseliminatefireflies’ light show’seliminatefireflies’ light shows’eliminatefireflies light shows

Read this excerpt:The chemical, which, by the way, cut down the number of mosquitoes exponentially, had the unfortunate side effect of killing off this little wasp I've got the scientific name for it somewhere in my report here, if you're interested that preyed on a type of caterpillar that in turn ate palm leaves.T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Top of the Food Chain"This excerpt from "Top of the Food Chain" is an example of which type of appeal?A.PathosB.UnreliableC.LogosD.Ethical

How do butterfly and mosquito have their food?

Read the first two stanzas of this poem:I saw my soul at rest upon a dayAs a bird sleeping in the nest of night,Among soft leaves that give the starlight wayTo touch its wings but not its eyes with light;So that it knew as one in visions may,And knew not as men waking, of delight.This was the measure of my soul's delight;It had no power of joy to fly by day,Nor part in the large lordship of the light;But in a secret moon-beholden wayHad all its will of dreams and pleasant night,And all the love and life that sleepers may.This excerpt is an example of what type of poem?A.BalladB.HaikuC.SonnetD.Sestina