2018/19학년도 7학년 학력평가시험문제 R2 (캐나다 비씨주)

최신 샘플 정보를 원하시는 분은 이곳을 클릭하십시요.

 

캐나다 비씨주 2018/19학년도 7학년 학력평가시험문제 (R2)

Foundation Skills Assessment 2018/19 (Province of British Columbia)

 

PART 1: READING

Importance of Observation

 

An Island of My Own

 

Fifteen-year-old Rowan spends the summer monitoring the progress of an endangered group of sea otters.

 

Rowan woke feeling uncomfortable. The sun was beating in her face, sweat trickled down her neck, and her backrest had developed a prominent spike that was digging into her back. She stretched stiffly, stood up and looked out across the water. A flash caught her eye. There seemed to be something splashing out by the kelp bed near the entrance to the cove.

 

Rowan mentally crossed her fingers, grabbed her binoculars and pack, and headed up the headland path to watch.

 

It was the otters. Full of wonder, Rowan lay on her stomach high above the kelp bed, pulled out her notebook and carefully wrote down what she saw.

 

Suddenly, Rowan’s hands tightened on the binoculars in excitement. one animal came up with a sea urchin in one paw and a flat rock in the other. It rolled onto its back and began hammering the sea urchin against the rock, then slurped out the innards as though eating ice cream from a cone. Rowan pulled out her camera, focused the zoom lens and started clicking.

 

 

 

 

This was not river otter behavior!

 

“Go slowly,” she told herself.“Document carefully, or people aren’t going to believe you.”

 

If she could prove this kelp bed was the home of an endangered species maybe she could prevent the island from being sold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday July 3rd

Five otters in the kelp bed.

Lots of activity. Otters swimming up to the surface of the water

and back down under the shiny brown kelp. They seem to be feeding.

Their mouths are constantly in motion chewing fish and clams. They use

their hands like we do, but they’re pretty messy eaters.

As I watched, one otter came up with a sea urchin and a flat rock.

He (I don’t know how to tell) placed the rock on his chest then started

hammering the sea urchin on it to crack open the shell.Then, he slurped

out the inside (poor sea urchin) and obviously loved it.      The otters roll around in the kelp until they are wrapped in it like

seat belts. Then, they lie on their backs and groom each other. They

make me laugh.

Another sea otter in the middle of the kelp is not quite as active as

the main group. It looks as if there is something wrong.

It’s a funny shape. It’s a mother with a baby lying on her chest!

They are both sleeping in the sunshine. While I watched, she gently

detached the baby, rolled it rapidly in kelp, then dived down into the

water. I didn’t know what was happening because the baby started

shrieking. I thought something must be wrong, but the other otters

didn’t seem disturbed. A few minutes later the mother popped up with

some fish. She ate, then washed, then unrolled the baby and placed it on

her chest again. It instantly stopped screaming and nuzzled with its head.

I guess it was nursing.

This has been a most astonishing day. . .

 

Katrina Vasey’s powerboat puttered into the Jenner’s landing. Bevan poked his head out of his boat’s cockpit and looked across questioningly.

 

“Hi, I’m Katrina Vasey, a wildlife biologist from Vancouver Aquarium. Are you one of the Jenner family?” Katrina stuck out her hand.

 

“Yes, I’m Bevan Jenner. How did you get here so soon? I only e-mailed the aquarium last night.”

 

An excited Rowan met them on the beach.

 

“So, what do we do now?” Rowan asked.

 

“I need to make some observations and do a head count,” Katrina smiled across at Rowan. “I’d like to see your notes and photos too.”

 

 

 

 

Rowan nodded happily. “Of course.”

 

“And I need to dive to check out the health of the kelp bed. But that will have to wait as I’m on my own.”

 

“We could help there,” Bevan interjected. “Both Rowan and I dive and I can handle a boat. We could come with you as support.”

 

Sunday July 7th

Today I acted as Katrina Vasey’s diving partner, and Bevan crewed the

boat. Bevan noted the surface activities of the otters from the deck,

while Katrina and I dived.

We were able to ascertain there are actually seven sea otters living

together as a raft, and Katrina thinks it’s a group of females. All look

healthy but unfortunately the pup that died seems to be the only

offspring this year. However, it’s impossible to tell if any of the females

are pregnant and one may have a late pup. This means there must be a

group of males not far away.

We officially listed all the types of sea life we observed in and

around the kelp forest, and did a sea urchin count. I helped Katrina

measure the forest’s length and breadth. She feels it can support the

otters that are there and that it should grow as the group grows.

Sea otters and sea urchins are intertwined. The otters eat the sea

urchins, sea urchins eat the kelp. As long as the otters are keeping the

urchin population under control, the kelp forest will expand.

Katrina says we lost thousands of kelp forests around our coast

when the sea otters were hunted and wiped out. Because the sea urchins

had no predator, they just ate the kelp unchecked. once the kelp forests

were gone, the safe habitat for many sea creatures was gone.

Until I dived with Katrina I had never thought of the kelp as a

forest. It’s changed my whole perception and view of the ocean.

 

Rowan closed her field notes and sat, gazing thoughtfully over the glade. The evening shadows were closing in, but there was still an air of frantic activity as a bat and a couple of swallows swooped and dove, vying with each other for the evening insect hunt.

 

Not even a week, that’s all it had been, but this tiny island had already changed her life.

 

 

“An Island of My Own.” by Andrea Spalding. Ecozone: How Do Our Actions Affect the Natural World? pp. 54-63. eds. Kloss & Schwalbe. Published by Pearson Education Canada. Toronto, on, Canada. 2008.

 

1. What can you learn about Rowan’s personality through her observation of the otters?Use information from the text, and your own ideas, to show your thinking. 
2.   
3.  
4.