Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

What was the author’s main purpose in writing To Drill or Not to Drill?

• to entertain

• to persuade and entertain

• to inform and persuade

• none of the above

What are imports?

• people who study Earth’s origin

• goods brought in from another country or state

• the disorganized spread of development into an area

• a cold, treeless Arctic region

Which of the following sentences shows that the author tried to persuade readers?

• You can help decide the future of ANWR.

• Drilling in ANWR is against the law.

• ANWR is nearly 20 million acres

• All of the above

Which word means freedom from the control, influence, support, or help of others?

• Interdependence

• endangered

• independence

• preserve

Which of the following sentences shows that the author informed readers?

• They estimated that the area holds about 10.4 billion barrels of oil.

• Thanks to new science, the drilling “footprint” in ANWR would be smaller.

• In 1973, some countries chose not to sell oil to

  the United States.

• All of the above

Which statement is an opinion?

• By one estimate, the government would make close to $200 billion.

• If drilling in ANWR can’t make the United States energy independent, then the environmental damage is not worth it.

• A thousand square miles of tundra now contain 1,500 miles of roads and pipelines, 1,400 working wells, and

  three airports.

• The supply of oil—foreign or American—will end.

How are Prudhoe Bay and Arctic National Wildlife

Refuge (ANWR) different?

• Prudhoe Bay is a source of oil

• Drilling in Prudhoe Bay is not against the law.

• Prudhoe Bay is located in northern Alaska.

• All of the above

Read the following sentence: Even if Congress allowed drilling in ANWR, only 2,000 surface acres of the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain could be touched. Does this sentence inform, persuade, or entertain readers?

• inform

• persuade

• inform and persuade

• entertain

Which of the following led to the 1973 energy crisis?

• Americans paid prices for oil that they’d thought impossible just a year before.

• Drivers waited in long lines at gas stations.

• A group of countries agreed to stop selling oil to the United States for six months.

• Fuel-efficient cars were produced.

Destroy is to devastate as

preserve is to

• protect

• give

• ruin

• provide