SUMMARIZING SENTENCE AND PARAGRAPH

Read the sentence. Choose the best summary that keeps the meaning but is shorter!

Sentence:
“Although the weather was very hot, the students continued to play football until it got dark.”

• The students stopped playing because of the heat.

• The students played football in hot weather.

• The students played football at night.

• It was too hot to play football.

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Sentence:
“Despite the heavy rain, the children played outside until dinner time.”

• The children played outside in the rain.

• The children stayed inside because of the rain.

• The children played outside until it rained.

• The rain stopped before dinner.

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Sentence:
“Even though it was late, the team worked hard to finish the project on time.”

• The team worked late to complete the project.

• The project was not finished on time.

• The team finished the project early.

• The team took a break from the project.

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Sentence:
“Although he was tired, Ahmad decided to go for a run in the evening.”

• Ahmad ran in the morning.

• Ahmad chose to run despite being tired.

• Ahmad was too tired to run.

• Ahmad skipped his run because of fatigue.

Read the sentence. Choose the best summary that keeps the meaning but is shorter.

Sentence:
“Because of the heavy traffic on the highway, they arrived at the airport too late and missed their flight.”

• They missed their flight because of traffic

• They went to the wrong airport.

• The plane left early.

• They took a train instead.

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Sentence:
“Even though he had a fever, he went to work because he had an important meeting.”

• His boss told him to go home.

• He canceled the meeting.

• He stayed home and missed work.

• He went to work sick for a meeting.

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Sentence:
While rushing to catch the morning bus because she overslept and didn’t hear her alarm clock, Nadia tripped on her shoelaces, spilled her coffee, and had to go back home to change her stained clothes.

• Nadia didn’t drink her coffee.

• Nadia missed the bus on purpose.

• Nadia went back home after spilling coffee on herself.

• Nadia stayed home all day.

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Sentence:
After spending hours trying to fix his printer, restarting it several times, checking the ink cartridges, and reading the manual cover to cover, Juna eventually gave up and submitted his homework by email instead.

• Juna emailed his homework because the printer didn’t work.

• Juna finished fixing his printer.

• Juna forgot to do his homework.

• Juna didn’t try to fix the printer.

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Sentence:
Because his favorite shoes were dirty and his backup pair had a broken sole, Andi had to wear his father’s big black leather shoes, which were clearly too large for him, to the graduation photo session.

• Andi cleaned his shoes.

• Andi wore his dad’s shoes to the photo session.

• Andi skipped the photo session.

• Andi bought new shoes.

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Sentence:
“Although he had a lot of homework, Sam decided to go out with his friends for a movie.”

• Sam had no homework to do.

• Sam stayed home to do his homework.

• Sam finished his homework before going out.

• Sam chose to go to the movies instead of doing homework.