Spaceship One Comprehension

From SpaceShipOne: Which is the main idea of the passage?

• Stinemetze always dreamed of going to space

• Stinemetze became a project engineer at Scaled Composites.

• Stinemetze earned his bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

• Stinemetze created a spacecraft that helped develop the private spaceflight industry.

What text structure is this passage?

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Sequence

What's the theme of this story?

• Teamwork makes the dream work

• If you want to accomplish your dream, do it yourself

• You don't need a team

• Teamwork doesn't make the dream work

The central idea of paragraphs 9 through 10 is-

• How it was overwhelming

• What Matt feels at the start of the flight

• How the crowd gathered to watch the flight

• Why he wanted to make it a reality

How is paragraph 11 organized and how do you know?

• Cause and effect, because it describes how it feels.

• Sequence, because its says "countdown" and "it took over an hour"

• Description, because it describes it.

• Compare and contrast, because it talks about similarities and differences about the topic.

What is the best summary for paragraph 12?

• They cheered that they made it back to Earth

• They cheered when they made it to space

• They circled the sky until they heard mission control say they made it to space, then they celebrated.

• The dog ran up the stairs.

What is the way paragraph 15 is organized?

• Cause and effect

• description

• problem and solution

• sequence

What is the central idea of paragraph 18?

• What happened when the spacecraft landed

• The practice tests of the spacecraft

• The making of the spacecraft

• When the spacecraft went to rest after the flight

Read the sentence from page 114.

"A hybrid rocket fueled by a mixture of two substances-in this case, laughing gas and synthetic rubber."

What does hybrid mean as it is used above?

• Rocket

• Something that is mixed together

• synthetic rubber

• none of them

Why does the author include the sidebar on page 114?

• to show how another person feels about spaceship one

• to inform the reader about spaceship one story but another point of view

• to give information about spaceship one

• not here