Summary and Central Idea

1) Which sentence from the passage expresses the MAIN idea?

• a) In poorer countries, these methods may be out of reach due to the price.

• b) Cheap filters for home use are probably the best solution.

• c) They placed the bottle in sunlight and found that the sunlight was able to kill the C germs in six hours once the clay was out of the way.

• d) It appears that research teams have become the best way to solve these problems D and make sure everyone has clean water to drink.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

2) Which idea is introduced in Paragraph 1 and then is restated in Paragraph 6?

• a) Nature provides answers to problems.

• b) The lack of clean water is an emergency.

• c) Water is a resource that people both need and enjoy.

• d) Scientists experiment to find new ways of doing things.

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2