Reading Review M5

We're Racing, Racing Down the Walk

We're racing, racing down the walk,

Over the pavement and round the block.

We rumble along till the sidewalk ends-

Felicia and I and half our friends.

Our hair flies backwards. It's whish and whirr!

She roars at me and I shout at her

As past the porches and garden gates

We rattle and rock

On our roller skates.

What makes the sound of 'whish and whirr'?

• Turning skates

• Flying hair

• Clapping hands

What type of information does this chart show?

• why people buy bread

• why people bake bread

• how to make bread

• why bread is healthy

What is this passage mostly about?

• a group of students

• the life of James Naismith

• how James Naismith invented basketball

• a special group of teachers

Where was basketball first played?

• in Maryland

• on a soccer field

• in a home

• at a school

What type of letter is this?

• Graduation invitation letter

• Party invitation letter

• Thank you letter

• Farewell letter

In the philosophy of John Dewey, a sharp distinction is made betwveen "intelligence" and "reasoning." According to Dewey, intelligence is the only absolute way to achieve a balance between realism and idealism, between practicality and wisdom of life. Intelligence involves "interacting with other things and knowing them," while reasoning is merely the act of an observed, "...a mind that beholds or grasps objects outside the world of things. ..." With reasoning, a level of mental certainty can be achieved, but it is through intelligence that control is taken of events that shape one's life.

Question:

What is the topic of this passage?

• The intelligence of John Dewey

• Distinctions made by John Dewey

• Dewey's ideas on the ability to reason

• How intelligence differs from reasonings in Dewey's works

Nitrogen fixation is a process by which nitrogen is continuously fed into biological circulation. In this process, certain algae arid bacteria convert nitrogen into ammonia (NH₃). This newly created ammonia is then for the most part absorbed by plants.

The opposite process of denitrification returns nitrogen to the air. During the process of denitrification, bacteria cause some of the nitrates from the soil to convert Into gaseous nitrogen or nitrous oxide (N20). In this gaseous form the nitrogen returns to the atmosphere.

Question:

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

• The Process of Nitrogen Fixation

• The Return of Nitrogen to the Air

• Two Nitrogen Processes

• The Effect of Nitrogen on Plant Life

If asked who invented the game of baseball, most Americans would probably reply that it was Abner Doubleday. At the beginning of this century there was some disagreement over how the game of baseball had actually originated, so sporting-goods manufacturer Spaulding inaugurated a commission to research the question. In 1908 a report was published by the commission in which Abner Doubleday, a U.S. Army officer from Cooperstown, New York, was given credit for the invention of the game. The National Baseball Hall of Fame was established in Cooperstown in honor of Doubleday.

Today, most sports historians are in agreement that Doubleday really did not have much to do with the development of baseball. Instead, baseball seems to be a close relation to the English game of rounders and probably has English rather than American roots.

Question:

The second paragraph...

• provides examples to support the ideas in the first paragraph

• precedes the ideas in the first paragraph

• outlines the effect of the idea in the first paragraph

• refutes the idea in the first paragraph

Williamsburg is a historic city in Virginia situated on a peninsula between two rivers, the York and the James. It was settled by English colonists in 1633, twenty-six years after the first permanent English colony in America was settled at Jamestown. In the beginning the colony at Williamsburg was named Middle Plantation because of its location in the middle of the peninsula. The site for Williamsburg had been selected by the colonists because the soil drainage was better there than at the Jamestown location, and there were fewer mosquitoes.

Question:

According to the passage, Williamsburg is located ...

• on an island

• in the middle of a river

• where the York and the James meet

• on a piece of land with rivers on two sides

Williamsburg is a historic city in Virginia situated on a peninsula between two rivers, the York and the James. It was settled by English colonists in 1633, twenty-six years after the first permanent English colony in America was settled at Jamestown. In the beginning the colony at Williamsburg was named Middle Plantation because of its location in

the middle of the peninsula. The site for Williamsburg had been selected by the colonists because the soil drainage was better there than at the Jamestown location, and there were fewer mosquitoes.

Question:

The passage states that the name Middle Plantation ...

• is a more recent name than Williamsburg

• refers to the middle part of England that was home to the colonists

• derived from the location of the colony on the peninsula

• was given to the new colony because it was located in the middle of several plantations