View Passage I Disable Passage Scrolling Seaplanes
Roberto Barerra
Read the passage on the lefl to answer the following questions:
3) Which BEST describes the organization of this passage?
A)
cause and effect
B)
sequence of events
Have you ever wondered how
people travel to islands without
any airports? Perhaps you have
pondered how the coast guard
rescues people from a sinking ship. Seaplanes are often the
best solution to these challenges. Seaplanes are airplanes
designed to take off from and land on top of a body of water.
The three different types of seaplanes are flying boats,
floatplanes, and amphibians.
problem and solution
D)
main idea and details
4) Which sentence from the passage is the BEST example of the author's
attempt to develop interest and engage his audience?
2 Flying boats have a fuselage, or body, that looks and acts like
a ship's hull. This hull enables them to float on water very
easily. Two small floats underneath its wings keep the flying
boat stable in rough water. These seaplanes are usually larger
and more stable on water than floatplanes are. A floatplane is a
seaplane that has two long floats, called pontoons, under the
fuselage. This is the only part of the plane that touches the
water. Unlike flying boats, floatplanes often come in a wide
A)
This is the only part of the plane that touches the
water