Summarizing Practice

What is the best summary of the selection?

• A At six o’clock, when the narrator is having tea, he begins to hear a distant battle begin. However, then there is a terrible crash very close to his house, and he begins to wonder if they are safe.
• B The battle with the Martians began in the evening. It started at the college but then progressed to the narrator’s home.
• C The narrator can hear the beginnings of a battle. But quickly it becomes very close to his own home. The narrator realizes they must leave and runs out of the house with his terrified wife.
• D The narrator’s home is right in the middle of a battle. When his chimney is hit by something, he decides it is time for his wife and him to leave home.

What is the best summary of the paragraph?

• A The brain receives input from the cranial nerves and the medulla. Many of these signals are conscious, like emotions, being touched, or reading information.
• B The brain can and does control most of our body. Some of it we think about, and others we do not.
• C The brain is constantly receiving signals. Some are conscious that you feel or think about. While others are sub-conscious, you do not have to think about, like digestion.sub-conscious, you do not have to think about, like digestion.

The paragraph is mainly a description of -

• A Towers being too sleepy to care about the Gingerbread man
• B Towers the dog trying to catch the Gingerbread man
• C the cook trying to catch the Gingerbread man
• D how the Gingerbread man kept getting away

Select the sentence that best summarizes what the article is mostly about.

• A With the list of unexplored places on Earth growing smaller and smaller every day, the odds of us finding new evidence pointing to our planet’s origins decreases.
• B It is possible that the Moon’s surface holds an unprecedented fossil record of life on Earth or from our surrounding planets.
• C The oldest evidence of life on Earth dates back to 3.5 billion years ago.
• D Now we are all focused on our next major objective, Mars, but are we skipping over a key to our past?

What is the best summary of the article?

• A Parents should help their kids in difficult situations but not solve every problem for them. Studies show that kids need experience handling stressful situations in small doses, so they learn independent skills. However, this is a tricky balance of offering the right amount of help.
• B Parents need to protect their kids. It is their job to help them deal with difficult or stressful situations. However, some parents are a little too overprotective.
• C Parents have a difficult job figuring out if they should help their kids in a difficult situation or if they should let them practice handling it themselves.
• D Parents are doing their kids a disservice by trying to solve all their problems. It is better if parents let their kids learn how to handle things all by themselves.

Which sentence best summarizes the text?

• A The narrator left the zoo and is now in a fancy room with chairs full of apes all around.
• B The narrator is very confused about the new room with apes.
• C The narrator describes a detailed carved piece of wood.
• D The narrator touches a carving and is suddenly transported to a fancy room with apes.

Which sentence best summarizes the text?

• A All humans have the right to healthcare, but this is not happening.
• B Healthcare is sometimes private, and not everyone has access.
• C Healthcare is better in some other countries.
• D All humans have inherent rights, like life and liberty.

What is the best summary of the selection?

• A The children use to play in the Giant’s garden. They loved the soft green grass and the songs of the birds. They were very happy in the garden.
• B One day a very selfish Giant can home to find children in his garden. He decided to put up a tall wall and a sign so no one would enter.
• C The children use to play in the Giant’s beautiful garden. One day, the Giant returned home, and selfishly kicked everyone out, building a wall around the garden.
• D The children use to play games in the Giant’s garden. They all use to get along, but then one day, the Giant decided to build a wall and not let anyone in.

Select the sentence that best states the main idea of the article.

• A The key to overcoming procrastination, one study suggests, is changing the way you think about your work.
• B Participants who received CBT were encouraged to challenge their thoughts, set goals, and work on time management skills.
• C The ACT group "introduced acceptance by experiential exercises, which helped members to realize that not only are efforts to manage and control our thoughts and emotions futile, but they also prevent us from doing valued life activities.
• D The good news: both methods worked.