Never Retreat

The author wrote this selection most likely to —.

• tell people that the entire earth is reliant on fossil fuels

• show people how some have adapted in the past

• persuade people to move to farms and grow their own food

• help people see that they can do more than they think to help the earth

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The author’s use of a subjective first-person point of view in this selection enables the reader to —.

• feel what it is like to live in developing countries

• find out why people want to move to rural communities

• understand how some people feel about energy consumption

• see how everyone on the planet shares in the need to solve this problem

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Read this sentence from paragraph 3.

With fossil fuels, new uses multiplied madly until we wove them into every corner of our lives.

What does the author imply with this subjective point of view?

• People started finding more fossil fuels around the world.

• People started adding fossil fuels to carpets and other textiles.

• People started thinking of fossil fuels as dangerous energy sources.

• People started using fossil fuels for too many products.

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Which words in paragraph 6 help you understand the meaning of scarcity?

• effects, humankind’s

• decline, limited

• maintain, lifestyle

• resistance, path

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Read these sentences from paragraph 8.

We’d save hugely on resources as well as on the energy needed to make them into products. We’d also lose large numbers of jobs.

How can these sentences be combined correctly using subordinating conjunctions?

• Because we’d save hugely on resources as well as on the energy needed to make them into products, we’d also lose large numbers of jobs.

• Supposing we’d save hugely on resources as well as on the energy needed to make them into products, we’d also lose large numbers of jobs.

• Even though we’d save hugely on resources as well as on the energy needed to make them into products, we’d also lose large numbers of jobs.

• We’d save hugely on resources as well as on the energy needed to make them into products, so we’d also lose large numbers of jobs.

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Which two phrases are ways the author supports the claim that people try to maintain their standard of living at any cost?

• By telling about the Japanese and the Bluefin tuna

• By explaining what people do with freshwater aquifers

• By describing the way developing countries once lived

• By showing how rural societies have a decentralized system

• By reporting how many consumer products are made with fossil fuels

What is the most likely reason the author included paragraph 9 in the selection?

• To tell how some people used to live in more traditional societies

• To convince people that society should have less reliance on fossil fuels

• To persuade people to change their lifestyles to better take care of the planet

• To explain how some people suggest solving energy consumption problems

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Which words from paragraph 13 help you understand what adaptability means?

• periods, times

• warmer, ice

• flexible, evolved

• humankind’s, hallmarks

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How do paragraphs 13 through 14 support the author’s position about adaptability?

• They show that adaptation is always gradual.

• They show that people can adapt if they need to.

• They show that natural events can often be the cause of adaptations.

• They show that those who adapt are concerned about the planet.

In paragraphs 1–3, the author argues that ____________.

• our dependence on coal is the result of a plot by energy companies

• we invent only those things that we know will be useful to everyone

• sometimes we unexpectedly find new uses for a discovery or invention

• fossil fuels have always been useful for powering machines