Main Idea Review

Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have nine thousand taste buds just on our tongues alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of our mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.

What does the author want you to learn when he wrote this passage?

• Why we have taste buds

• Where taste buds are found

• Why we can only taste sweet things

• Without taste buds, life would be boring.

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Carson's older sister, Madison, is a very good student. She isn't satisfied with just getting by in school. She is involved in extra activities at school, including the school's music program and the math club. She also always tries to answer the teachers' questions in class.

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• Madison was born before Carson.

• Madison likes music and math.

• Madison is a very good student.

• Madison likes to show off.

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Soccer (also known as football in some countries) is a very popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and then from 1938 to today.

The main idea of this paragraph is...

• Soccer is an important Olympic sport.

• Soccer is played by men and women.

• Soccer is also called football

• Soccer is a popular worldwide sport.

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Have you ever wondered how we see colors? The human eye can see millions of colors thanks to special cells in our eyes called cones. These cones are sensitive to red, green, and blue light, and all the colors we see are just combinations of these three colors.

What does the author want you to learn when he wrote this passage?

• Why we see colors

• How many colors the human eye can see

• What cones are

• Why we can only see three colors

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An important farm crop in the United States is cotton. Cotton is used for making clothing. Cotton is still a popular choice for clothes because it is easy to clean and last a long time.

• Cotton is the most important U.S. crop.

• Cotton is not used today.

• Cotton is important for making clothes.

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You can make all sorts of things with Legos. (Which detail doesn't belong?)

• You can very easily build a column.

• You can make a castle, a monkey, or a car.

• It hurts to step on Legos with bare feet.

• There are even kits available to make Star Wars ships.

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Emma desperately wanted the silky baby blue scarf that stared back at her from the shop window. When Mrs. Marple called to ask her to babysit, Emma knew this was her chance to earn the money to buy the scarf. After babysitting, Emma counted out her cash. She had enough to buy the scarf! The next afternoon, she raced to the store and bought the scarf, the perfect gift for her Mom! 
What's the main idea of this passage?

• Emma is an excellent babysitter.
• Emma babysits regularly for Mrs. Marple.
• Babysitting helped Emma buy her Mom the perfect scarf.
• Emma was shopping for a gift for her Mom.

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In 2012, Instagram made its 26-year-old creators, Stanford grads Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, instant multimillionaires when they sold their app company to Facebook developer, Mark Zuckerberg, for $1 billion. In fact, all 13 employees became millionaires. How popular is the millionaire-making app? If you printed off the 21.9 billion photos uploaded to Instagram in a year, it would span 4,693 miles - farther than Orlando is from the North Pole!
Which supporting detail would best fit into this paragraph?

• All 13 joined the company in its first year.
• Facebook is most popular among moms.
• Stanford University, like Harvard College, is an Ivy League school.
• Santa and the elves reside at the North Pole.

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Now you're ready to download photos for your Animoto video book trailer. To avoid breaking copyright rules, you will download all your photos--except the book cover--from the website, www.photosforclass.com. This site only contains photos that are approved for use by the photographers who snapped the pictures. Using photos without permission is illegal and breaks copyright laws.
What is the main idea of this passage?

• Every book trailer needs at least five photos plus the book cover.
• For Animoto book trailers, copyright laws don't matter.
• Copyright means I have the right to copy anything I want.
• Photos used in Animoto book trailers must come from photosforclass.com.

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Thomas Alva Edison is remembered because of the huge number things he invented which are still used today. He invented the light bulb. The storage battery was invented by him. Motion pictures (movies) were another of his inventions.

• The storage battery was invented by him.

• Thomas Alva Edison is remembered because of the huge number things he invented which are still used today.

• Motion pictures (movies) were another of his inventions.

• He invented the light bulb.

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