STAAR Reading Review

The word outlandish in paragraph 3 means -

• with no distinctive features

• looking bizarre or unfamiliar

• normal; ordinary

• not successful

Which of the following would the author most likely agree with?

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa is an ugly tower.

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa should not be preserved for any longer.

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa needs to be preserved for as long as possible.

• Preserving the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a piece of cake.

What was the major difficulty in the selection with The Leaning Tower of Pisa?

• Humans are destroying the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa is breaking down.

• The Leaning Tower of Pisa is tilting more and more.

• Humans couldn't go inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa to look at.

What was the Author's Purpose for making this selection?

• To show how the Cutty Sark was displayed.

• To show how long it took to restore the Cutty Sark.

• To show that the Cutty Sark was advanced for its time.

• To explain how the Cutty Sark was important in history.

The photo at the end of the selection, "Cutty Sark", was used to show-

• That the hull of the Cutty Sark was very big.

• How the Hull is being displayed.

• That many people came to see the Hull.

• That it took a long time to restore the ship.

In which sentence or phrase does the author make a factual claim?

• Some records claim that the clipper sailed from London to Sydney, Australia, in 77 days and made the return trip in just 73 days, a remarkable pace at the time.

• "Today the Cutty Sark attracts visitors from around the world and remains a significant part of London’s history."

• “ Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the Cutty Sark was the clipper’s speed.”

• "it was clear that the tower was going to be a magnificent structure—except for one problem."

Read this sentence from The Cutty Sark:

“Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the Cutty Sark was the clipper’s speed. The clipper set new speed records in the 1880s. Some records claim that the clipper sailed from London to Sydney, Australia, in 77 days and made the return trip in just 73 days, a remarkable pace at the time. However, as faster steam vessels began to rise in popularity, the Cutty Sark soon became obsolete. The clipper was later used for training officers who served in the Royal Navy in World War II.”

Which of the sentences do NOT help the cause of the story?

• “Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of the Cutty Sark was the clipper’s speed.”

• “The clipper set new speed records in the 1880s.”

• “However, as faster steam vessels began to rise in popularity, the Cutty Sark soon became obsolete.”

• The clipper was later used for training officers who served in the Royal Navy in World War II.”

According to the selections, The Cutty Sark is similar with Reinforcing the Past because…

• Both of the passages are about efforts to save the historical sites.

• Both of the sites are in South America.

• Both of the sites were made recently.

• Both of the sites set records at some point in history.

One difference between the attempts to preserve The Leaning Tower of Pisa and the attempts to preserve The Cutty Sark is that the Cutty Sark attempts involved…

• Making the display of the Cutty Sark different than before.

• Changing how the Cutty Sark should be preserved.

• Trying to increase the amount of visitors that come to the Cutty Sark

• Trying to fix a part of the historical artifact.

Read this sentence from "The Cutty Sark"

Unfortunately, during the renovation in 2007, the ship caught fire when a vacuum cleaner was left on. Luckily, 90 percent of the ship’s hull and most of the ship’s fabric and fittings were saved from the fire.

Which of the following sentences from "Reinforcing The Past" is similar to the sentence above?

• "By the time construction on the tower had reached the third and fourth floors, it was clear that the tower was going to be a magnificent structure—except for one problem. It had started to tilt."

• "In 1990 experts determined that the tower was dangerously close to toppling over, and public entry into the tower was prohibited."

• "These efforts to protect and maintain the tower are not obvious to the untrained eye; the tower still leans about 13 feet."

• "In 1934 an attempt to stabilize the tower included injecting concrete into the stone foundation, but some of the concrete seeped under the foundation, causing the tower to lean even more."