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Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 50mins
Paraphrasing, or restating ideas in your own words, helps you check your understanding of what you hear and read.
Read the passage below and decide which sentence best restates the ideas presented:
"Although television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s, small, experimental television images were broadcast in the 1920s."
Television was not widely used in American homes until the 1950s.
Television became popular in the 1950s, but the first televisions were used thirty years earlier.
Television became popular in the 1920s, and again in the 1950s.
Read the passage below and choose the best paraphrase:
Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, people in Sauri, Kenya, have much better lives today than in years past. Their hospital now has a generator and running water, and it provides free medications for diseases that are widespread in the community. Cases of malaria have declined as people have been given mosquito nets for beds.
Their hospital now has a generator and running water, and it provides free medications for diseases that are widespread in the community.
Cases of malaria have declined as people have been given mosquito nets for beds.
Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, people in Sauri, Kenya, have much better lives today than in years past. Their hospital now has a generator and running water, and it provides free medications for diseases that are widespread in the community.
Life in Sauri has recently improved.The hospital offers electricity and plumbing, and Free medicine and mosquito nets help prevent common diseases and malaria.
Brazil is the largest country in South America and Suriname is the smallest.
A type of shark called a shortfin mako can leap 20 feet above the surface of the water.
Rugby football is the most popular sport in New Zealand. Most villages, towns, and districts have their own teams.
(World Book Atlas page 212)
A high school student usually has summer reading assignments.
Paraphrase the text above, making sure to identify all the writer's main points. Don't forget to look up any unfamiliar words.
Choose the best paraphrase.
Choose the correct paraphrase of the following sentence:
During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in factories.
In the time of the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in the factories.
Factories employed children-even three-year-olds-in the Industrial Revolution.
During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as three worked in factories.
Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has been an important market and trading place for hundreds of years.
(World Book Illustrated Atlas page 103)
Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing striker for La Liga's Barcelona team.
(Scholastic Book of World Records 2011 page 99)
The giant rafflesia, also known as "the stinking corpse lily" has blossoms that can reach three feet in diameter and weigh up to twenty five pounds. The flowers give off a smell similar to rotting meat.
Three issues are especially crucial to understanding the possible uses of the human genome.
Three things are especially crucial to understanding the possible uses of the human genome.
Understanding potential uses of the human genome is linked to three vital issues.
While most people are aware of such medical possibilities, they are less aware of the fact that genes can also uncover a great deal about humankind's history and culture.
Many persons are aware of such medical possibilities, but they are less knowledgeable about people's history and culture.
Most people know that genes are linked to potential medical advances.However, what they do not realize is genes can also tell us about a society and its past.
On June 26 Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, and Craig Venter, head of Celera Genomics, announced that they had completed thereading of a "rough draft" of the human genome - the complete set of human DNA.
On June 26 two scientists stated they had finished the initial reading of the human genome.
It was announced by two researched that they had read the first reading of the complete set of human DNA.
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Amir worried about passing the very difficult test.
Receiving a passing grade on the difficult exam concerned Amir.
Amir was worried about receiving good marks on the test, which was very hard.
Anxiety is a feeling. It occurs when someone dreads something unknown.
Anxiety, which is a feeling, is felt by people who do not know why they are uneasy.
The feeling of anxiety results when someone is uneasy but doesn't know why.
Select the best paraphrase for the following excerpt: "His life lasted many winters; Wise men all over the Earth surely remember him still."
He lived a long life and is considered famous even now.
He survived the difficult winter months, and hopefully others know of him too.
Many men know of him.
He was killed in the winter by wise men.
