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• ☐ ☐ ☐ vulnerable [adj] - easy to be infected or hurt by something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ motivated [adj] - have a strong reason or desire to do something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hatch [v] - the opening of an egg to produce babies
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a proboscis [n] - the long nose of an animal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a sheath [n] - a long hollow cover that protects something inside
• ☐ ☐ ☐ saw [v] - cut with a blade that has teeth
• ☐ ☐ ☐ barely [adv] - almost nothing
• ☐ ☐ ☐ exude [v] - give, discharge
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a straw [n] - a thin hollow tube used to suck liquid
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a gut [n] - the stomach of an animal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ free up [phv] - create more space or time by removing something
• ☐ ☐ ☐ red blood cells [n] - part of the blood
• ☐ ☐ ☐ stuff [v] - pack, put a lot of something into
• ☐ ☐ ☐ spit [v] - eject saliva (water) from the mouth
• ☐ ☐ ☐ saliva [n] - water from the mouth
• ☐ ☐ ☐ itchy [adj] - the feeling after being bitten by a mosquito
• ☐ ☐ ☐ parasite [n] - an organism that lives in a host organism and benefits by taking nutrients from the host
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a parting gift [exp] - a gift that you give when you leave (part)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hitching a ride [exp] - getting a ride somewhere for free
• ☐ ☐ ☐ welts [n] - a red, swollen mark left on skin after being bitten by a mosquito
• ☐ ☐ ☐ larvae [n] - baby insects
• ☐ ☐ ☐ rain gutters [n] - shallow troughs at the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb,  [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

1. The mosquito is the deadliest animal in the world?
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2. Mosquitoes kill millions of people every year.
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3. Children and pregnant women are mostly immune to mosquito bites.
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4. Only male mosquitoes bite people.
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5. Female mosquitoes need blood to produce eggs.
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6. Mosquitoes need large pools of water to hatch their eggs.
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7. A protective sheath protects the needles inside a mosquito's proboscis.
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8. Mosquitoes have six needles inside their proboscis.
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9. Two of the needles hold the skin apart.
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10. Two of the needles suck up blood from blood vessels.
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11. Mosquitoes separate water from our blood and squeeze it out.
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12. Mosquitoes spit a chemical into our skin to make our blood flow more easily.
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13. Mosquito bites are itchy because of the chemical that mosquitoes spit into our skin.
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14. Mosquitoes purposely infect humans with viruses and parasites.
    True
    False