Question

Getting in Sync by Mira D'Angelo

Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:

1)

What is the main idea of this passage?

A) Making the Olympic team is every high school diver's dream.

B) Sometimes you have to put aside your ego in order to achieve greatness.

C) When diving, it is important to try to make as small a splash as possible.

D) Synchronized diving is a sport that isn't given enough respect by other divers.

2)

Which of these is an accurate and appropriate summary of paragraph 6?

A) Briony and Camilla worked well together from the start.

B) Briony and Camilla had to learn a completely new way to dive.

C) Briony and Camilla had to work on the dive alone before diving together.

D) Briony and Camilla argued with each other from the start of their practice.

3)

What is the BEST way to summarize paragraph 8?

A) Camilla and Briony had to learn

Answer 1

A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive.

Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it. More soil is poured.

It shakes it off and steps up. The more the load was poured, the higher it rose. By noon, the donkey was grazing in green pastures.

After much shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will graze in GREEN PASTURES.