Questions 12-22 are based on the following passage by Jean-Henri Fabre.
The Glow Worm and Other Beetles
Few insects in our climes compete in popular fame with the Glow-worm, that curious little animal which, to celebrate the little joys of life, kindles a beacon at its (12) tail-end, who does not know it, at least by name? Who has not seen it roam amid the grass, like a spark fallen from the moon at its full? The Greeks of old called it [Greek: lampouris], meaning, the bright-tailed. Science employs the same term: it calls the lantern-bearer, Lampyris noctiluca, LIN. In this case, the common name is inferior to the scientific phrase, which, when translated, becomes both expressive and accurate.
(13) The Lampyris is not a worm at all, not even in general appearance. He has six short legs, which he well knows how to use; he is a (14) gad-about, a trotabout. In the adult state, the male is correctly garbed in wing-cases, like the true Beetle that he is. The female is an ill-favoured, (15) ground-bound thing who knows naught of the delights of flying: all her life long, she retains the larval shape, which, for the rest, is similar to that of the male, who himself is imperfect so long as he has not achieved the maturity that comes with pairing-time. Even in this initial stage, the word “worm” is out of place. We French have the expression “Naked as a worm,” to point to the lack of any defensive covering. Now the Lampyris is clothed, that is to say, he wears an epidermis of some consistency; moreover, he is rather richly coloured: his (16) body is dark brown all over and set off with pale pink on the thorax, especially on the lower surface. Finally, each segment is decked at the hinder edge with two spots of a fairly bright red. A costume like this (17) having never been worn by a worm.
1. Before he begins to feast, the Glow-worm administers an anæsthetic: he chloroforms his victim, rivalling in the process the wonders of our modern surgery, which renders the patient insensible before operating on him.
(18) 2. It is essential the Glow-worm administers this in order to ensure its prey is unable to move. (19) 3. It is in some such resting-place as this that I have often been privileged to light upon the Lampyris banqueting on the prey which he had just paralyzed on its shaky support by his surgical (20) movements. 4. The usual game is a small snail hardly the size of a cherry, such as, for instance, Helix variabilis, DRAP., who, in the hot weather, collects in clusters on the stiff stubble and on other long, dry stalks, by the roadside, and there remains motionless, in profound meditation, throughout the scorching summer days.
But he is familiar with other preserves. (21) He frequents the edges of the irrigating-ditches, with their cool soil, their varied vegetation, a favourite haunt of the mollusc. (22)