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1 What is the best title for the passage?

An Exciting Activity
✔ 1... 2... 3... Bungee!

Test Your Courage
New Zealand

2 Which of the following is NOT true about the bungee jump?

The most famous bungee jumps are in New Zealand.
There are many places to go bungee jumping.
✔ New Zealand had the first bungee jumps.
The biggest bungee jump is the Pipeline.

3 Why is bungee jumping much safer today?

Because the bungee jumps are not as tall
Because bungee jumpers use parachutes
✔ Because bungee jumpers use special ropes
Because bungee jumpers do not use wood towers

4 What can be inferred from the passage?

✔ Bungee jumpers need to be brave.
Bungee jumpers live only in New Zealand.
Bungee jumpers today need vines.
Bungee jumpers didn t need a lot of courage in the past.

Summarize the Text

Complete the summary with the words in the box.

on the Pentecost Islands the best and most famous a test of courage
one kind of punishment did not start there tied vines to their feet

Bungee jumping is popular. New Zealand is place for it. But bungee

jumping . It started in the Pacific Ocean.

Jumpers and jumped off the towers. Though bungee jumping is

safer now, it is still .

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