Main Idea 1

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What is the main idea of the passage? Beth likes to swim with her friends at the beach. The best part of going to the beach is collecting shells. She likes to use shells to make jewelry.

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Beth likes to collect shells.

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What is the main idea about steel?

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Steel is used for many purposes.

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What is the main idea of the passage about honeybees? Honeybees travel up to four miles to find nectar. When a bee finds nectar, it does a wiggle dance to tell the other bees where the nectar is. Other worker bees head out to the source. All in all, a hive of bees can travel up to 55,00 miles and visit 2,000,000 plants to produce one pound of honey.

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Honeybees are hard workers.

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What is the main idea of Lisa's birthday plans?

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Lisa wants to have a birthday party.

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What is the main idea of the passage? Jean finally had the money to buy something she had wanted for a long time, a skateboard. Today after school, Jean would buy her own skateboard. She was pretty good at using skateboards, because she used those of her friends to practice.

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Jean will get a skateboard.

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What is the main idea of Li's situation?

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Li is having a hard time making friends.

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What is the main idea of the passage? Jim’s family bought a new car. Jim is very excited about it. His father and mother will take him for a ride in it tomorrow. Jim hopes it will be a long ride.

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Jim is happy about the new car.

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What is the main idea about bats? There are about 2,000 kinds of bats. They come in many sizes. Bats are rather strange looking animals. They are soft and furry with large ears. Bats cannot run or walk. They usually eat insects. Bats are the only mammals that fly.

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Bats are unusual mammals.

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What is the main idea of the following passage? Chemicals were placed into bee feeders. Within two days, the bees connected the smell of the chemicals with food. They were able to lead researchers to buried explosives by scents alone. Researchers hope to use honeybees to locate buried land mines. Options: Insects are very intelligent., It may be possible to change insect behavior., All insect behavior can be changed.

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It may be possible to change insect behavior.

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The main idea is:

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John did not want to get up.