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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Which of these are not natural substances?

a. pollen
b. dust
c. soot
d. sand

2. Which of these happens last in the passage?
a. Automobiles stream a blue, smelly haze that hangs over crowded cities.
b. Garbage dump incinerators spread black soot.

c. Chemical fumes rise from paper mills and metal working plants.
d. Smoke pours from factory smokestacks.

3. Smog usually causes

a. shortness of breath
b. dizziness
c. watery eyes

d. all of the above

4. How are the substances of pollen and smog the same?
a. They both are unnatural.

b. They both are natural.
c. They both give watery eyes.
d. They both have hazy mist.

5. Predict what will happen if smog increases.

a. People will have breathing problems.
b. People will create more smog.
c. People will burn coal in furnaces.
d. People will go to the beach.

6. The word stream means
a. to flow from
b. to burst or explode

c. to consume
d. to smash

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