Comprehensive Reading Comprehension Answer Key

Sweet as Sugar

1. b) Not known in Europe until the 16th century.
2. a) Honey was collected.
3. b) Help make a better supply of nectar.
4. b) Reflect the original taste.
5. a) There would be less green stuff.
6. b) The number of people working.
7. c) Comes from hives looked after.
8. a) You will live a much healthier life.

The Best-Seller Connection

1. b) You can see people reading it everywhere.
2. c) Simply enjoys observing them unnoticed.
3. c) She knows that some readers like.
4. a) Accurate.
5. b) Florence, Torino, and the Sorbonne in Paris.
6. a) They were doing works of maintenance.
7. c) The information wasn’t there.
8. a) The information wasn’t extremely.

Threatened Prehistoric Paradise Reveals Its Secrets

1. c) Is the closest place to Conan.
2. d) Found many new species.
3. a) Species are disappearing as.
4. c) Biologists have been fascinated.
5. a) Added the Paedocypris micromegethes.
6. c) Malaysia and other Asian countries.
7. d) Appears like a cross.
8. b) Has more species of plants.

No Longer Just Child’s Play

1. a) Has gone up.
2. b) Some people collect toys to earn money.
3. c) Men do.
4. c) They have some free time.
5. d) Dolls.
6. b) Are meeting places.
7. a) Some toys are fake pieces.
8. d) It is the only shop that.

Organic Farming

1. b) Wanted to grow their own food.
2. c) Was not used to grow.
3. c) The use of farming methods that.
4. d) Decides whether produce.
5. c) Your farming practices.
6. a) When the Soil Association.
7. b) Had some problems meeting.
8. c) Of a general tendency towards.

Gourmet Garbage

1. d) Even though they are in brand new.
2. c) He eats the food that he has in his.
3. a) A market where people donate things.
4. b) It is a way to fight the system.
5. c) By using bicycles.
6. b) Doesn’t eat meat, eggs, or milk products.
7. b) Are not animal friendly.
8. d) Are serious people, not freaks.

Is Text Messaging Making Our Kids Illiterate?

1. a) A teenager can solve most problems.
2. d) People.
3. d) Have a richer social life.
4. b) May behave violently in real life.
5. a) Phonetic shorthand.
6. d) Instant Messaging shows that.
7. d) Disagree about the influence.
8. b) An adult who reflects on the use.

A Better World

1. b) The excessive use of coal and oil.
2. c) Some people from the entertainment.
3. b) The director, David Guggenstein, who often.
4. a) Won't be much more important than it is.
5. c) Made mainly from waste.
6. d) Are quite responsive to the production.
7. b) Some cities do.
8. d) To change people's point of view about.