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Test: HSPT Reading
Adapted from "Some Strange Nurseries" by Grant Allen in A Book of Natural History (1902, ed. David Starr Jordan)
Many different types of animals employ one of two strategies in raising their young. Certain animals, called “r-strategists,” turn out thousands of eggs with reckless profusion, but they let them look after themselves, or be devoured by enemies, as chance will have it. Other animals, called “K-strategists,” take greater pain in the rearing and upbringing of the young. Large broods indicate an “r” life strategy; small broods imply a “K” life strategy and more care in the nurture and education of the offspring. R-strategists produce eggs wholesale, on the off chance that some two or three among them may perhaps survive an infant mortality of ninety-nine per cent, so as to replace their parents. K-strategists produce half a dozen young, or less, but bring a large proportion of these on an average up to years of discretion.
| 1. | Which of the following is suggested by the passage's wording? |
Most animals abandon their young to fend for themselves.
Many r-strategists reproduce by laying eggs.
Biology is only the author's hobby, not the field in which he works.
It would benefit the environment to ensure the survival of the entire brood of r-strategists.
K-strategist animals are in short supply.
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