Read the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question:
The camel can go without water for a long time. Some people think it store water in its hump. This is not true. It stores food in its hump. The camel’s body changes the food into fat. Then it stores the fat in its hump. It cannot store the fat all over its body. Fat all over an animal’s body keeps the animal warm. Camels live in the desert. They do not want to be warm during the day.
The desert is very hot. The camel gets hotter and hotter during the day. It stores this heat in its body because the nights are cool.
The Arabian camel has one hump. The Bactrian camel of Central Asia has two humps. It also has long, thick hair because the winters are cold in Central Asia.
There is a lot of sand in the desert. The camel has long eyelashes. Then sand cannot go into the camel’s eyes.
Arabic has about 150 words to describe a camel. Arabs need all these words because the camel is very important to them.
1. The camel can go without ________ for a long time.
A. food B. fat C. water D. heat
2. The camel stores ___________ in its humps.
A. water B. food C. heat D. hair
3. Long ___________ keep sand out of the camel’s eyes.
A. eyelashes B. thick hair C. humps D. ears
4. The Bactrian camel has long thick hair because __________ .
A. it lives in a hot desert
B. it stores fat in its hump
C. winters are cold in Central Asia D. the sand gets in its eyes.
5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Fat keeps the animal warm.
B. It is cool in the desert during the night.
C. There is a lot of sand in the desert.
D. All kinds of the camel have two humps.
