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Reading Skill: Summarizing Information                                                                                                                      Summarizing information refers to
                                                                                                                                                                  finding the major information and
                                                                                                                                                                  the main details of a passage and
                                                                                                                                                                  writing them down. A summary is
                                                                                                                                                                  usually a short explanation of the
                                                                                                                                                                  events in the passage. It focuses
      Complete Yash Gupta’s answers with the correct words or phrases.                                                                                            only on the important information
                                                                                                                                                                  and ignores minor points.

              Questions                                                                                                                                            Answers


                                                               Sight Learning is a nonprofit organization that  provides used                                                               .
      What is Sight Learning?                                      eyeglasses                 to students in need.




      Why did you create Sight                                 I wanted to help students who need glasses  but cannot afford                                                                .

      Learning?                                                     to buy them                 .


      How does Sight Learning                                  We                 collect                  used glasses and                           distribute                  them

      help others?                                             to students in many places.


      What do you gain from                                    I get an inspiring experience from watching kids’                                                      joy and               .


      running Sight Learning?                                      gratitude              when they can first see with their glasses.


      How can people contribute

      to Sight Learning?                                      People can donate their old glasses  instead of discarding them                                                              .



                    distribute               instead of discarding them               but cannot afford to buy them

                    collect                    joy and gratitude                             provides used eyeglasses



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