Unit 1 Week 4 Comprehension "The Boy Who Invented TV"

Read the following questions carefully.

Which two inventions most interested young Philo?

• telephone and television

• phonograph and telephone

• electric generator and radio

• electric generator and phonograph

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the following questions carefully.

How was Idaho different from Utah?

• There were trains.

• There was electricity.

• There were televisions.

• There was running water.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Read the following questions carefully

What did Philo see while plowing fields that helped

him invent the television?

• view of the open country

• light reflected off the field

• parallel lines in the field

• overturned earth

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Read the following questions carefully.

Philo thought that the best thing about television was that it would...

• make him famous.

• establish world peace.

• allow people to see one another.

• permit people to share the same stories.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Read the following questions carefully.

All of the following tell how Philo learned EXCEPT

• he graduated from college.

• he asked a lot of questions.

• he read a lot of magazines.

• he tinkered with all kinds of machines.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2