Mimimi

LANGUAGE ARTS – UNIT 1
8th Grade A B C D E
Teachers: Ana Lucía Celada and Angela Galiano

Name: _________________________________ READING COMPREHENSION – Unit 1Directions: Your choices will show how well you understood the reading selections. You may reread all or part of the selections to help you answer correctly.

The BBC isreporting that Harry Potter is responsible for the dwindling number of wild owls in India. One of the reasons that owls are being trapped and sold as pets is that parents’ arebuying them as gifts for their kids who are fans of the fictional wizard. As you may already know, Harry has his own pet owl, Hedwig.

1. What does “dwindling” mean?
a. havingfeathers
b. becoming less
c. flying
d. appearing in movies

2. Many children in India want owls _______.
a. as pets
b. to become extinct
c. as a special food item
d. to use theirfeathers in hats

3. From the above selection, we can see that _______.
a. Everyone loves Harry Potter movies
b. Owls don’t taste as good as chickens
c. People want to wipeout owls
d. being popular can be harmful

Volvo is building a car that will use gasoline without burning it. CNet Car Tech reports that Volvo will use a fuel cell thatconverts the hydrogen in gasoline into electricity to run the vehicle’s electric motor when the battery is low. The plug-in hybrid will go farther on the same amount of fuel becauseregular gasoline engines waste much of the fuel’s energy as heat.

4. To fill this car with fuel, _______.
a. you’ll have to find a station that sells hydrogen
b. you’ll be ableto go to any regular gas station
c. you must plug it in overnight
d. you only need to add water

5. What does “converts” mean?
a. frightens
b. burns
c. loses
d. changes