Kangaroo

English reading, writing and speaking skills

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Kangaroo

• Kangaroos are found in Australia.

• They are herbivorous animals that eat only grass and small plants.

• They need very little water to survive.

• A male kangaroo is called a buck, a female kangaroo is called a doe and a baby kangaroo is called a Joey.

• Female kangaroos have a pouch.

• Mother’s warm pouch is a safe place for a kangaroo’s baby to grow.

• Kangaroo moves by hopping on its hind legs.

• They are very fast animals.

• A new-born kangaroo is only the size of a peanut.

• In pouch baby feeds on her mother’s milk.

Refer the given composition to answer the following questions:

1. In which country Kangaroos live?

(A) Japan             (B) China              (C) England          (D) Australia

2. What kind of animals are Kangaroos?

(A) slow               (B) jolly                (C) fast                 (D) lazy

3. Which is the safe place for the kangaroo’s baby to grow?

(A) mother’s arms                           (B) mother’s pouch

(C) mother’s lap                               (D) mother’s couch

4. What is the size of the new born kangaroo?

(A) size of a peanut                         (B) size of a potato

(D) size of a cashew nut                  (D) size of a cabbage

5. How is the kangaroo mother’s pouch?

(A) cool                (B) small              (C) tight               (D) warm

6. What does a kangaroo baby feed?

(A) peanut                                        (B) mother’s milk

(C) walnut                                        (D) baby food

7. Which kangaroo has a pouch?

(A) baby kangaroo                          (B) male kangaroo

(C) male kangaroo                           (D) all of them

8. What does a kangaroo eat?

(A) dead animals                            (B) green grass

(C) cooked vegetables                    (D) living animals

9. How does a kangaroo move?

(A) runs                (B) crawl              (C) hop                 (D) slide

10. How much water kangaroo needs to survive?

      (A) 8 buckets       (B) 12 liters         (D) A lot               (D) Very little

Answer keys
1. (D); 2. (C); 3. (B); 4. (A); 5. (D); 6. (B); 7. (C); 8. (B); 9. (C); 10. (D)