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1 What is the best title for the passage?
✔ Banana Power
Making Electricity
Australian Farmers
Good Ideas in Science
2 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
✔ Old bananas are good for the land.
Farmers couldn’t sell old bananas.
Each year farmers throw away 20,000 tons of bananas.
Bananas could give electricity to over 500 families.
3 The word extra in the passage is closest in meaning to
vital
exact
✔ surplus
necessary
4 Which of the following best fits in the blank of the passage?
to cultivate land
✔ to make electricity
to improve food product
to clean up the environment
Summarize the Text
Complete the summary with the words in the box.
generated electricity grew too many bananas produced poisonous gases
are testing the idea provide hundreds of families the extra bananas
Australia’s banana farmers and had to throw many of them away.
Then scientists wanted to find a way to turn
Chemicals in the bananas into electricity.
If they succeed, Australia’s extra bananas could
. Now scientists .
with electricity.
Unit 3 Electricity 125
✔ Banana Power
Making Electricity
Australian Farmers
Good Ideas in Science
2 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
✔ Old bananas are good for the land.
Farmers couldn’t sell old bananas.
Each year farmers throw away 20,000 tons of bananas.
Bananas could give electricity to over 500 families.
3 The word extra in the passage is closest in meaning to
vital
exact
✔ surplus
necessary
4 Which of the following best fits in the blank of the passage?
to cultivate land
✔ to make electricity
to improve food product
to clean up the environment
Summarize the Text
Complete the summary with the words in the box.
generated electricity grew too many bananas produced poisonous gases
are testing the idea provide hundreds of families the extra bananas
Australia’s banana farmers and had to throw many of them away.
Then scientists wanted to find a way to turn
Chemicals in the bananas into electricity.
If they succeed, Australia’s extra bananas could
. Now scientists .
with electricity.
Unit 3 Electricity 125
