We Are Ready - Day Without Oil

15. The author asks questions in the passage because she wants the reader to think about which of these?

• how to find different sources of energy

• how to start saving energy

• how oil is used in real life

• how oil is manufactured

16. In which sentence does the author MOST clearly explain why people cannot spend a day without oil?

• The world is now consuming roughly 77 million barrels of oil a day.

• Today more than 250 million cars drive on American roads each day.

• If you were to go into a hospital, you would see plastic materials used to care for sick people and to ensure safe and clean working conditions for nurses and doctors.

• However, oil touches almost every industry, every technology, every business, and every home every day of every week.

17. What is the MAIN purpose of Paragraph 6?

• to list different goods made with oil products

• to tell how people use the most amount of oil

• to describe how oil is used in transportation

• to explain why people need more oil today.

18. In Paragraph 4, the author write that cars and trucks "make it much easier to travel from point A to point B." Where does a person go when traveling "from point A to point B"?

• around in a circle

• from one place to another

• from the left side to the right

• back and forth among many places

19. A history teacher at The Winsor School, Jennifer P. Baker has her master's degree in social studies from Teachers College, Columbia University

What is the purpose of this note?

• to give more current facts about the topic

• to provide background information about the topic

• to explain why the author is qualified to write about the topic

• to persuade readers to perform more research about the topic

20. Check the two facts that the author connects in Paragraph 2.

• the length of the roads in the United States

• the number of cars that drive on American roads

• the amount of oil Americans use for transportation

• the year that cars were first driven in the United States

Check the two methods the author uses to organize the ideas in Paragraph 2.

• listing facts by importance

• showing steps in a process

• giving the time order of events

• comparing the past to the present