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Lost and Found

STAAR Questions

Multiple Choice

9. Which sentence best states the main idea of the SELECTION?

• All this information was available because of the microchip that had been place under Scrub's skin many years earlier.

• Microchips have helped thousands of owners get their lost pets back.

• However, thanks to her microchip, Roxy was returned to her grateful owner.

• However, tags and collars can fall off and become difficult to read

Multiple Choice

10. The diagram of the microchip is included to show -

• a detailed view of a microchip

• how the scanner locates information

• where to place a microchip

• the differences between pet collars and microchips

Multiple Choice

11. Why is it surprising that Roxy was found?

• Roxy had wondered away from her owner.

• Roxy was lost for several years.

• Roxy was on a busy street.

• Roxy was far from home.

Multiple Choice

12. The purpose of the questions in paragraph 2 is to -

• interest readers in learning how microchips help reunite owners with lost pets

• tell readers about service available at the animal shelter

• give readers details about what is happening in the photograph of Scrub

• share with readers how it feels to lose a pet

Multiple Choice

13. To learn when pets can be microchipped, the reader should refer to the -

• diagram of th microchip

• caption under the photograph after paragraph 3

• photographs of the animals

• boxed information after paragraph 6

Multiple Choice

Look at the diagram on your paper.

Which of these completes the diagram?

• Why it was difficult for George's owners to find him.

• How George's owners were about to Locate him.

• What George's owners did to try to find them.

• Where George's owner eventually found him.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence from paragraph two

"Once the chip is in place, the pet does not feel it anymore."

The sentence helps the reader infer -

• where microchips are located

• that microchips do not bother pets

• how microchips are inserted

• that microchips are helpful for pets