Teacher: You are given a short paragraph, a question and two choices to answer from. Choose the correct answer based on the paragraph and write the answer(not the key).
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
Paragraph: Many of the worlds people live with water scarcity, and that percentage will increase as populations increase and climate changes.
 Question: John's town used to have lots of water, back when there were only a few hundred people. However, now that the town holds several thousand people, the water availability is 
 Choices: A)scarce 
B)plentiful
Solution: scarce
Reason: Based on the information given in the paragraph, population growth will make water more scarce, so that is the correct answer.

Now, solve this instance: Paragraph: Natural selection is the process by which living things with beneficial traits produce more offspring, so their traits become more common over time.
 Question: If the number of offspring of an species is decreased, what happens to the number of traits they have in common with one another? 
 Choices: A)they will have more traits in common 
B)they will have less traits in common
Student:
they will have less traits in common