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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, home to 300 species of coral and over 1,500 species of fish, but it faces environmental threats such as pollution and crown-of-thorns starfish. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, despite poor planning and unexpected challenges, became a historic success, attracting around 500,000 attendees and featuring iconic musicians. Both passages highlight the significance of natural and cultural landmarks, emphasizing their beauty and the challenges they face.

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, home to 300 species of coral and over 1,500 species of fish, but it faces environmental threats such as pollution and crown-of-thorns starfish. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, despite poor planning and unexpected challenges, became a historic success, attracting around 500,000 attendees and featuring iconic musicians. Both passages highlight the significance of natural and cultural landmarks, emphasizing their beauty and the challenges they face.

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Practice

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.
(1) Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest network of coral reefs, stretching 2,010 km (1,250 miles) off
Australia’s northeastern coast. (2) Although coral looks like a plant, it is the limestone skeleton of a tiny
animal called a coral polyp. (3) The reef’s 300 species of coral create an underwater garden of brilliant
colors and intricate shapes. (4) From microorganisms to whales, diverse life forms make their home on
the reef. (5) Over 1,500 fish species, 4,000 mollusk species, 200 bird species, 16 sea snake species, and six
sea turtle species thrive in the reef’s tropical waters. (6) The reef is also a habitat for the endangered
dugong (sea cows), moray eels, and sharks. (7) Although protected by the Australian government,
Great Barrier Reef faces environmental threats. (8) Crown of- thorns starfish feed on coral and can
destroy large portions of reef. (9) Pollution and rising water temperatures also threaten the delicate
coral.
1. How many species of coral are there in the Great Barrier Reef?
a. 30 b. 200 c. 300 d. 3,000
2. Which of the following NOT a threat to the Great Barrier Reef?
a. dugong (sea cows) b. crown-of-thorn starfish c. pollution d. rising sea temperatures
3. In which sentence does the author describe the coral polyp? a. sentence (1) b. sentence (2) c.
sentence (4) d. sentence (5)
Read the passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Passage 2
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair—better known to its participants and to history
simply as “Woodstock”—should have been a colossal failure. Just a month prior to
its August 15, 1969 opening, the council of Wallkill, New York, informed the fair’s
organizers that it was withdrawing
its permission to hold the festival. Amazingly, the organizers found a new site, a
large field in Woodstock, New York, owned by a local dairy farmer. Word spread to
the public of the fair’s new location. The event drew a larger audience than the
organizers had expected. On the first day of the fair, crowd estimates of 30,000
kept rising; traffic jams blocked most roads leading to the area. Some musicians
could not reach the site to appear at their scheduled times. In addition,
fences that were supposed to facilitate ticket collection never materialized, so the
organizers abandoned all attempts at taking tickets. But that was not all: as the
large crowd gathered, so did summer storm clouds. It started raining on opening
night and continued for much of the three-day event. To deal with the crowd, which
reached an estimated 500,000 by the third day, helicopters flew in food, doctors,
and medical supplies. Despite all of its problems, the festival featured some of the
greatest musicians of the 1960s, including Janis Joplin; Joan Baez; Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young; Sly and the Family Stone; Creedence Clearwater Revival; and Jimi
Hendrix. Today many people think of Woodstock not only as a milestone for rock
music but as the defining moment for an entire generation.

1. The main idea of this passage is best expressed in which sentence?


a. Most Americans think of Woodstock as a bunch of kids dancing to music in the
mud.
b. The organizers underestimated how many people the festival would attract.
c. Despite poor planning, Woodstock was a success and a high point for a
generation of Americans.
d. The organizers succeeded in their goal of creating a historically significant
event.
2. What was the final crowd estimate?
a. 20,000 b. 30,000 c. 50,000 d. 500,000
3. Which of the following was NOT a problem faced by the event’s organizers?
a. blocked access to the site b. attracting musical talent c. bad weather
d. finding a location for the festival
4. The phrase defining moment in paragraph 4 could best be replaced by which
word or phrase?
a. symbol b. belief c. anecdote d. fun time
5. Where in the passage does the author describe the weather conditions during
the event?
a. at the end of paragraph 2 b. at the beginning of paragraph 3
c. at the end of paragraph 3 d. at the beginning of paragraph 4
6. The word facilitate in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to
a. make easier. b. make more difficult.
c. build a facility. d. increase.
7. What does the author mean by the statement the Woodstock Music and Art Fair
should have been a colossal failure?
a. Woodstock should not have happened.
b. Woodstock was a financial failure because the organizers did not collect tickets.
c. When you mix dairy farmers with young rock fans, you are asking for trouble.
d. The large crowd and other problems could easily have resulted in a crisis.
8. The passage suggests that
a. a free concert would never happen today. b. area residents thought the rock fans
were weird.
c. the impact of the event exceeded expectations. d. music brings people together
in a way other art forms cannot.

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