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There were no electric lights, running water, or telephones. Huts with leafy roofs stood near the ocean’s edge. By the edge of the thick rainforest, a wooden outhouse rested on the sand. Papayas hung from the great trees. Huge watermelons sprouted under swaying hammocks. As our boat pulled up to shore, Audley James, an Arawak native, came out to greet us. With a warm smile and soft voice, he said,“Welcome to Shell Beach.”  \n2 I had just landed on a protected beach in British Guyana.  \nWhen the sea turtles who were born here come back to lay their eggs, eager poachers try to steal the eggs and sell them for profit. But that is changing.  \n3 James was once a poacher, but now he works to save thesea turtles from extinction.1 Twice every night, he and others walk the beach and gather all the eggs that they can find. They carry the eggs to the base camp and bury them in sand until they hatch. Little turtles, the size of a hand, climb up through the sand. Then they are carried to the ocean in a bucket. For two weeks, I would join James on these treks, helping him save the turtles.  \n4 Sea turtles lay their eggs at night. I rested in my hammock until James was ready to go. We began the fourmile hike up the beach. A warm wind carried the smell of salt. Soft moonlight showed the way.  \n5 Once there, I waited for a sea turtle to return to her birthplace. Suddenly, I spotted something shimmering on the surface of the water, then dipping below, and slowly moving with the crest of each ocean wave. She looked like a smooth stone skipping toward us.  \n6 She landed gently. Working hard, she used her flippers to push her 2,000-pound body up the sand. This made a trail  \nMississippi Academic Assessment Program—Sample Test Items 3  \nthat could lead poachers right to her eggs. Slowly, the greenback turtle began to dig a large hole with her hind flippers. When the digging stopped, she laid her fist-size eggs one by one.  \n7 We forgot to bring a bag to gather the eggs, so I used my bright yellow raincoat. Lying on the sand, I caught every egg and carefully placed it on the yellow plastic. . . .  \n1extinction: to be gone or no longer living  \n♦ ♦ ♦  \n“Saving the Sea Turtles” by Nicole Lundrigan, AppleSeeds, April 1, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Cricket Media. Used with permission of Cricket Media, Inc.  \n4 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program—Sample Test Items  \nAnswer the following questions for “Saving the Sea Turtles .”  \n1. Why do sea turtles need saving?  \n People take them from the beach at night.  \n Sea turtles have a hard time digging holes.  \n People like to put their eggs in yellow plastic.  \n Poachers try to steal eggs and sell them for profit.  \n2. What is the meaning of rested as it is used in the sentence from paragraph 1?  \nBy the edge of the thick rain forest, a wooden outhouse rested on the sand.  \n built  \n grown  \n settled  \n slept  \nMississippi Academic Assessment Program—Sample Test Items 5  \n3. The following question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.  \nPart A  \nWhat is the meaning of poachers as it is used in paragraph 2?  \n people who explore  \n people who help  \n people who destroy  \n people who take  \nPart B  \nWhich quotation from the passage helps the reader determine the meaning of poachers?  \n “. . . steal the eggs and sell them for profit.” (paragraph 2)  \n “. . . works to save the sea turtles from extinction.”  \n(paragraph 3)  \n “. . . helping him save the turtles.” (paragraph 3)  \n “. . . on the sand, I caught every egg. . . .” (paragraph 7)  \n6 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program—Sample Test Items  \n4. 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