COMPREHENSION 2

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1. From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of a short-period comet?

• a. It returns at regular intervals.
• b. It is never seen but once.
• c. It is made of solar particles.
• d. It lasts less than a year.

2. Where do comets form?

• a. near the sun
• b. near Jupiter
• c. in the Oort Cloud region
• d. near Earth

3. Which of the following is a topic sentence?

• a. Then it slingshots away and races once more toward the outer solar system.
• b. A comet begins as a small, icy mass far beyond Pluto in a region called the Oort Cloud.
• c. The most ancient record of Halley’s Comet comes from 1057 BCE.
• d. Comet Encke goes by every 3.3 years

4. Which event occurred after Halley’s death and was seen as proof that the comet returned every seventy-six years?

• a. The appearance in 1984.
• b. The appearance in 2061.
• c. The appearance in 1057 BCE.
• d. The return of the comet in 1758.

1. From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of itinerary?

• a. a list of books
• b. a list of destinations on a trip
• c. a list of steamships
• d. a list of people to meet

2. What do you think Nellie did on the trip so that people knew where she was and how she was doing?

• a. She sent dispatches and articles to her newspaper to be published.
• b. She sent letters to the president of the United States.
• c. She gave interviews to television reporters.
• d. She made telephone calls to her parents.

3. What did Nellie and Jules Verne discuss?

• a. how he wrote the book
• b. the route around the world
• c. people to meet on the way
• d. how to write a novel