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That is an owl, one of nature's quietest killers, and it does its best work when most animals are asleep. With a flat, round face and eyes that seem to stare straight into you, an owl looks a little spooky, which is exactly why it turns up in so many autumn stories. But the real bird is far stranger than any legend, and every part of its body is a tool built for the hunt.  \nThose creepy nighttime stories start with a sound, or rather, the lack of one. Most birds whoosh when they fly, but an owl glides in near silence because the front edges of its wing  \nfeathers are broken into soft, comb-like teeth. These fringes chop the rushing air into tiny swirls instead of one loud rush, and a velvety coating on the feathers muffles the noise even more. The result is a hunter that can hear its prey while the prey cannot hear the hunter, an advantage few animals get.  \nSilence would be useless, though, if the owl could not find dinner in the first place. That is where the face comes in: those wide, dish-shaped feathers around the eyes act like a satellite dish, funneling faint sounds toward the ears on either side of the head. Even weirder, in some species such as the barn owl, one ear sits higher than the other. Because the sounds reach the lopsided ears at slightly different moments, the owl's brain can pinpoint a rustling mouse in total darkness, judging both its direction and its height.  \nIf the ears are doing the searching, the eyes handle the aiming, and they come with a strange rule. An owl's eyes are so huge and tubeshaped that they are locked in their sockets and cannot roll around the way yours do. To make up for it, the bird swivels its whole head, turning it about 270 degrees, roughly three-quarters of the way around, without hurting itself. Extra bones in the neck and a clever blood-vessel layout let it spin that far and still keep blood flowing to the brain.  \nAll that hunting leaves a messy problem: what happens to the parts  \nof a mouse an owl cannot digest? Instead of passing bones and fur through its body, the owl coughs them back up as a tightly packed lump called a pellet. Scientists and students love these gray, fuzzy pellets, because pulling one apart is like opening a tiny time capsule of everything the bird recently ate. Careful pickers have found whole rodent skulls, beetle shells, and even the bones of small birds inside a single pellet.  \nGiven all these tricks, it is no wonder people once wove owls into their tales. In ancient Greece the owl was linked to Athena, goddess of wisdom, which is why we still call a thoughtful person \"wise as an owl. \"Elsewhere, people told stories that a hooting owl carried messages or warnings, simply because it appeared at night when imaginations run wildest. The bird itself was never plotting anything, of course; it was just using silent wings, a sound-catching face, and eyes that never blink away from a hunt.  \nOwls: Hunters of the Night  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which two central ideas are developed throughout the passage?\u003Cbr>A. That owls migrate long distances, and that they are endangered in most countries\u003Cbr>B. That owls build unusual nests, and that they compete with hawks for food\u003Cbr>C. That owls sleep during the day, and that they raise their young in autumn\u003Cbr>D. That owls are built as expert night hunters, and that they appear in human stories and folklore |  |  |  |  | Answers\u003Cbr>1.  \u003Cbr>2.  \u003Cbr>3.  \u003Cbr>4.   |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2) How did the ancient Greek connection between owls and Athena influence the way people speak today?\u003Cbr>A. It is why a thoughtful person is still called \"wise as an owl\"\u003Cbr>B. It is why we describe someone alert late at night as a night owl\u003Cbr>C. It is why owls are used as symbols on ancient Greek coins\u003Cbr>D. 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