Short Circuits

When was the transistor invented?

A. 1947

B. 1945

C. 2007

D. 2000

• 1947

• 1945

• 2007

• 2000

How does the author describe the changes transistors have undergone over time?

• Transistors haven't changed much since they were invented.

• Transistors have shrunk in size and become less useful.

• Transistors have shrunk in size but increased in usefulness.

• Transistors are used for the same things they were used for when first invented.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How do you think the author feels about the future of transistors and nanotechnology? A. hopeful and excited B. concerned and worried C. cautious and uncertain D. to little information to determine

• hopeful and excited

• concerned and worried

• cautious and uncertain

• to little information to determine

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Read the following sentences and answer the question below: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, consider the amazing shrinking transistor! Watch it contract a million times until it becomes a tiny dot visible only under a powerful microscope!" What does the word contract mean?

• agreement or pact

• form an agreement

• shrink

• to get or incur, as in a virus or disease

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This passage is mostly about...

• technology

• nanotechnology

• transistors

• science

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The question below is an incomplete sentence. Choose the word that best completes the sentence. If scientists can figure out how to etch transistors onto graphene, __________ they will be able to create much smaller and much faster computer chips.

• but

• then

• so

• however

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A