Tofel Skills

1. Mark twain called the years after the civil war the “gilded age”
2. Early horses had toes instead of hooves on their feet
3. Tundra plants grow close to the ground in the short Arcticsummer.
4. In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.
5. Between 1725 and 1750, New England witnessed an increase in the specialization of occupations.
6.The large carotid artery carries blood to the main parts of the body.
7. Marconi developed radio as the first practical system of wireless telegraphy.
8. In 1975 the first successful spaceprobe to Venus was beginning to send information back to earth.
9. The two biggest resort towns in Arkansas are hot springs and Eureka springs.
10. NASA’s Lyndon b. Johnson space center was thecontrol center of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo flights.

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1. The topic of the passage is the calm in the center of a hurricane.
2. The passage indicates that in the eye of ahurricane it can be sunny.
3. According to the passage, what causes the calm spot? The air circling around the center.

Passage two p 166

4. What is the best title for the passage? An accidentalinvention.
5. According to the passage, the invention of the phonograph was quite unplanned.
6. In what year did the invention of the phonograph occur? 1876.
7. According to the passage, how was thephonograph made? From a combination of telephone and telegraph parts.
8. According to the passage, how did Edison test his new invention? He read a children’s rhyme.

Passage three p167
9. Thispassage mainly discusses shopping through the Sears and Roebuck catalogue In the past.
10. The passage indicates that items ordered though the Sears and Roebuck catalogue were delivered by mail-
11.According to the passage, why was the Sears and Roebuck catalogue important to people in remote areas? It had a lot of products they could not get in their local areas.
12. The passage mentions that...