8TH GRADE TESTING BANK # 3

PART A.From the information in Passage 1, what can the reader conclude about residents of Portland, Oregon?

• They prefer to reuse instead of to recycle.

• They pay high rates for trash pickup.

• They use new kinds of technology.

• They have greatly reduced their landfill trash.

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1. 1. PART B - Which sentence from Passage 1 supports the answer in Part A?

• Some American cities are following the lead of cities abroad and charging residents by the trash bag.

• Computers weigh trash bags and then bill residents accordingly.

• Instead of sending these items to the landfill, people can set aside leftovers and use them for animal feed or compost them for fertilizer.

• Used clothes and household items are now more likely to be donated or given away.

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2.What is the controlling idea of Passage 1, paragraph 2?

• Having to pay to throw away trash encourages people to compost and recycle.

• The high cost of waste removal is leading cities to pass on some costs to residents.

• Waste management companies pick up items at designated curbside locations.

• Residents of most states pay a flat fee for trash pickup.

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3.Which sentence from Passage 1 demonstrates how individuals have a direct impact on reducing the amount of trash?

• Cities are now asking citizens to pay based on how much they throw out as a way to reduce the financial burden and encourage people to recycle more and use less.

• In the PAYT program, residents buy and use official trash bags, stickers to put on their bags, or other official receptacles.

• Residents who need to throw away more can buy additional official blue bags with a giant longhorn printed on them.

• With trash no longer allowed to go hidden in oversized black bags, unwanted and unneeded things are finding second lives outside the garbage can.

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4. Read this sentence from Passage 1.

“But organic trash, like food waste and food-soiled paper, accounts for a lot of the weight

and bulk of trash.” (paragraph 4)

What is the meaning of 'organic' in the sentence from Passage 1?

• recycled metal and plastic

• discarded items that weigh a lot

• substances created by or from living things

• waste resulting from fast-food products

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5.How does the author support the central argument of Passage 2?

• by giving alternatives to having share tables in schools

• by explaining how share tables help students and schools

• by describing students who place food on share tables

• by telling what happens to the unclaimed food on share tables

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6.What is the role of paragraph 8 in Passage 2?

• to offer choices that could save money

• to describe creative ways to use leftovers

• to suggest ways to access nutritional food

• to address concerns about students feeling ashamed

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7.What is the author’s purpose for writing Passage 2?

• to demonstrate the abundance of food available

• to encourage the use of share tables in schools

• to review various trash-reducing strategies

• to criticize people who waste food

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8. 8. Fill in the bubble before the sentence from paragraph 9 of Passage 2 in which the author

   responds to a conflicting viewpoint.

• A. At schools that have implemented share tables, students share mostly fruit and milk,

  but they also often leave chips, nuts, crackers, and candy for others to pick up.

• B. Most

  share tables have restrictions. For instance, shareable food must be unpeeled, uncut, and

  wrapped. In some schools, though, these rules go further.

• C. Because of these strict rules,

  good food is still going into the trash. One worry is that cold food is being left out too long.

• D. A school in Wallingford, Connecticut, uses a donated refrigerator to store cold items.”

9. Read this sentence from Passage 1.

“But organic trash, like food waste and food-soiled paper, accounts for a lot of the weight

and bulk of trash.” (paragraph 4)

Which sentence from Passage 2 is related to this idea?

• A) "A container of milk here, a bag of cookies there, and a box of raisins—it all adds up to pounds upon pounds of food being thrown away in schools each week."

• B) "In June 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a memo stating that share tables were an effective way to reduce food waste in our schools."

• C) "While cafeteria managers try to plan meals that students actually want to eat, not everyone chooses to eat all that is on the plate."

• D) "At schools that have implemented share tables, students share mostly fruit and milk, but they also often leave chips, nuts, crackers, and candy for others to pick up."

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