Read the following passage about nocturnal animals.
Nocturnality is an animal behaviour characterised by activity during the night and sleep during the day. The common adjective is "nocturnal", versus its opposite “diurnal”.
Nocturnal creatures generally have highly developed senses of hearing and smell, and specially adapted eyesight. Such traits can help animals such as the Helicoverpa zea moth to avoid predators. Some animals, such as cats and ferrets, have eyes that can adapt to both low-level and bright day levels of illumination. Others, such as bushbabies and some bats, can function only at night. Many nocturnal creatures, including most owls, have large eyes in comparison with their body size to compensate for the lower light levels at night.
Being active at night is a form of niche differentiation, where a species' niche is partitioned not by the amount of resources but by time (i.e. temporal division of the ecological niche). For example, hawks and owls can hunt the same field or meadow for the same rodents without conflict because hawks are diurnal and owls are nocturnal.
Fill the gaps in the summary using words from the list below it.
Nocturnal animals sleep during the daytime, whereas ______ animals are awake during the day and they ______ at night. Animals that are active at night tend to have ______ hearing and smell, and they may have ______ eyesight. Nocturnality allows animals to hunt for prey without having to ______ with predators that are active during daylight hours.
most, sensitive, asleep, conflict, diurnal, compete, exceptional, sleep
Here are my answers:
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Jessica Zhang | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 00:15
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Nguyen | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 01:39
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Angelina | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 01:55
diurnal
Sleep
Sensitive
Exceptional
Conflict
Posted by: Clare | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 02:38
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Thanh | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 03:03
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: ATITI | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 03:40
most
asleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Linh | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 03:55
1. diurnal
2. sleep
3. sensitive
4. exceptional
5. conflict
Posted by: Akter | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 04:37
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Ha | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 05:16
I think conflict and compete are both acceptable in Q5
Posted by: Aubameyang | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 05:20
diurnal,sleep,sensitive,exceptional,conflict
Posted by: Murad | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 05:50
1. diurnal
2. sleep
3. sensitive
4. exceptional
5. conflict
Posted by: Max | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 07:08
1 diurnal
2 sleep
3 sensetive
4 exceptional
5 conflict
Posted by: Mariya Mirabella | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 08:21
1 diurnal
2 sleep
3 sensitive or exceptional
4 exceptional or sensitive
5 conflict
Posted by: paul | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 10:56
1 MOST
2 SLEEP
3 SENSITIVE
4 EXPECTIONAL
5 CONFLICT
Posted by: Ankit Joshi | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 11:13
1.most
2.sleep
3.sensitive
4.exceptional
5.conflict
Posted by: Ngoc Ninh | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 11:24
1 diurnal
2 sleep
3 sensitive
4 exceptional
5 conflict
Posted by: Pachu | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 11:37
1 diurnal
2 sleep
3 sensitive
4 exceptional
5 compete
Posted by: Prasad Gandham | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 12:52
Nocturnal animals sleep during the daytime, whereas (DỈURNAL) animals are awake during the day and they (SLEEP) at night. Animals that are active at night tend to have (SENSITIVE) hearing and smell, and they may have (EXCEPTIONAL) eyesight. Nocturnality allows animals to hunt for prey without having to (CONFLICT) with predators that are active during daylight hours.
Posted by: Anna Nguyễn | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 14:13
I think both compete and conflict must be acceptable for question 5.
Posted by: Brs | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 14:25
diurnal
sleep
exceptional
sensitive
conflict
Posted by: Tinh | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 14:32
diurnal
sleep
exceptional
sensitive
conflict
Posted by: Ameet | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 15:57
most
sleep
exceptional
sensitive
compete
Posted by: nom | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 16:38
Please help me
In one of the Simon's essays I read the sentence: There are AT LEAST AS MANY celebrities whose accomplishments make them excellent role models for young people. The problem is that I couldnt understand entirely the part that I wrote in capitals. Please who can explain it in a bit different way?
Posted by: Shakhzod | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 17:31
Diurnal
Sleep
Sensitive
Exceptional
Compete
Posted by: Hang | Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 21:43
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
conflict
Posted by: Jason Heo | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 01:06
@Shakhzod
At least as many is the exaggeration of amount.
There are a lot of, numerous celebrities whose achievements make them excellent role models for young people
Posted by: Murad | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 04:21
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
compete*
*Most people chose 'conflict', but in the verb form 'to conflict' usually means 'to be incompatible' (e.g. the date of the celebration conflicted with a business meeting that I had to attend).
It is much more natural to use 'compete' in the summary above.
Posted by: Simon | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 09:44
Hi Simon,
Could you please explain why you chose sensitive not exceptional for num 3 and exceptional not sensitive for num 4?
Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you!
Posted by: Sana | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 16:14
diurnal
sleep
sensitive
exceptional
compete
Posted by: Haithem | Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 14:16
diurnal
sleep
developed
large
conflict
Posted by: tom | Sunday, December 02, 2018 at 01:17
1.diurnal
2.asleep
3.sensitive
4.exceptional
5.Compete
Posted by: Franca | Monday, December 03, 2018 at 15:05
Sana,
It would be ok to change those two answers around.
Posted by: Simon | Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 13:54
Diurnal
Sleep
Sensitive
Exceptional
Conflict
Posted by: Sita Thapa | Tuesday, January 08, 2019 at 11:07
Diurnal
Sleep
developed
adapted
Conflict
Posted by: Choi | Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 12:43
Hi Simon - a bit of topic:
if the answer should contain 'pin' and 'ball' - will it make a difference, if I write 'pin and ball' instead of 'ball and pin'?
Posted by: Yuls | Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 19:59
Nocturnal animals sleep during the daytime, whereas diurnal animals are awake during the day and they ______ at night.
Guys why isn't second "awake". namely, Is "They" means "Nocturnal". Can anyone explain it?. I hope that i could tell.
Posted by: Rec | Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 22:05