Text Structures Quiz

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Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors.  Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate.  Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not.

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Which text structure is used in the passage that describes the differences between strawberry and chocolate ice-cream?

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Freezer burn may have wasted more ice-cream than sidewalks.  If you don't know, freezer burn is when ice crystals form on the surface of ice-cream.  These ice crystals can ruin the texture and flavor of the ice cream.  But you can prevent freezer burn.  Since freezer burn is caused when melted ice-cream is refrozen, rather than eating your ice-cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice-cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately.  Doing this ought to help you solve your issues with freezer burn.

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What is the text structure used in the passage that provides a solution to prevent freezer burn?

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No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in "Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts," a cookbook that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream.  Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!

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Which text structure is used in the passage that discusses the history and inventions related to ice-cream?

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Have you ever had an ice-cream headache?  That's when a painful sensation resonates in your head after eating something cold (usually ice-cream) on a hot day.  This pain is produced by the dilation of a nerve center in the roof of your mouth.  The nerve center is overreacting to the cold by trying to heat your brain.  Ice-cream headaches have turned many smiles to frowns.

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What is the text structure used in the passage that talks about ice-cream headaches?

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• Information is organized by time order.

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• An action and its “effect” is described.

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• Differences and similarities between two or more things.

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• Something difficult is described and answered.