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Google
Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer to the text to check your
answers when appropriate.
You know that you're doing something big when your 1. Which event happened last?
company name becomes a verb. Ask Xerox. In 1959
they created the first plain paper copy machine. It was a. Lycos released their search engine.
one of the most successful products ever. The company b. Yahoo! released their search engine.
name Xerox grew into a verb that means "to copy," as c. Google released their search engine.
in "Bob, can you Xerox this for me?" Around 50 years d. Xerox released their copy machine.
later, the same thing happened to Google. Their
2. Which best explains why the author
company name grew into a verb that means "to do an discusses Xerox in this text?
internet search." Now everyone and their grandma
knows what it means to Google it.
a. He is discussing big companies that came
before Google.

Unlike Xerox, Google wasn't the first company to

b. He is explaining how companies must
invent their product, not by a long shot. Lycos released change with the times.
their search engine in 1993. Yahoo! came out in 1994. c. He is showing how companies can affect
AltaVista began serving results in 1995. Google did not our language.
come out until years later, in 1998. Though a few years d. He is comparing and contrasting Google
difference may not seem like much, this is a major head and Xerox.
start in the fast moving world of tech. So how did
Google do it? How did they overtake their competitors 3. How did Google improve search
who had such huge leads in time and money? Maybe quality in 1998?
one good idea made all the difference.

a. They counted how many times queries

There are millions and millions of sites on the internet. appeared on each page.
b. They looked more closely at the words in
How does a search engine know which ones are
search queries.
relevant to your search? This is a question that great
c. They linked to more pages.
minds have been working on for decades. To
d. They studied the relationships of links.

understand how Google changed the game, you need to

know how search engines worked in 1998. Back then 4. Which was cited as a reason why
most websites looked at the words in your query. They Google became so popular?
counted how many times those words appeared on each a. Google's homepage was clean.
page. Then they might return pages where the words in b. Google provided catchy news stories on
their homepage.
your query appeared the most. This system did not
work well and people often had to click through pages c. Google homepage loaded quickly.
d. Google provided useful stock quotes on
and pages of results to find what they wanted.
their homepage.

Google was the first search engine that began

considering links. Links are those blue underlined
words that take you to other pages when you click on
them

5. Which title best expresses the

author's main purpose in writing this
text?
a. Xerox Vs. Google: Battle of the Titans
b. Search Engines: How They Work and Why
They're Important
c. A Better Way: How Google Rose to the Top
d. Search Engines: A Short History of

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Tigers | Nonfiction Reading Test 2

Who would win in a fight, a lion or a tiger? Well, if size

has anything to do with the matter, the tiger would win. 1. Which animal does not grow larger than the tiger?
Thats because tigers are the largest of all cat species. a. Brown bear
They grow up to eleven feet long and weigh as much as b. Lion
670 lbs. This makes tigers the third largest land
c. Polar bear
carnivore. The only larger land carnivores are polar
d. All of these animals grow larger than a tiger
bears and brown bears. Tigers are not only large, they
are also fast.
2. Which number is closest to the estimation of the wild
Tigers are hunted for many reasons. People have long Tiger population in 2003?
valued the famous striped skins. Though trading tiger a. 3,000
skins is now illegal in most parts of the world, tiger
b. 100,000
pelts are worth around $10,000 on the black-market.
c. 140
d. 30,000
Tigers have also been hunted as game. In other words
people hunted tigers solely for the thrill and
3. Which best explains why tigers have lost so much of
achievement of killing them .
their
habitat according to the text?
Humans have built towns and cities. Road and transit
systems were created to connect these towns and cities. a. Because humans are afraid of tigers
b. Because tiger skins are extremely valuable
To feed the people living in these areas, forests and
c. Because humans have changed the land
fields have been cleared to create farmland.
d. Because tigers need so much space to survive
Because tigers need so much territory, it is difficult for
4. Which of the following is an opinion?
conservationists to acquire land enough to support a
a. Tigers can grow up to eleven feet long.
large population of tigers. Even when such these
b. Saving the wild tiger population is important.
considerable spaces are allocated, it is even more
difficult to patrol such large areas to prevent poaching. c. South China tigers were brought to live in South Africa.
There is no easy way to preserve the wild tiger
d. Humans have endangered the worlds wild tiger
population without making large sacrifices
population.

5. Based on context, which best defines the term

Though tiger population faces many threats and
rewilded as used in the last paragraph?
obstacles to recovery, there have been some successes a. To preserve animals by keeping them in zoos
in conservation and preservation efforts. For example, b. To teach animals to coexist with humans
Save Chinas Tigers, an organization working to restore c. To teach humans to coexist with animals
the wild tiger population, successfully rewilded a small d. To bring animals born in zoos back to nature
number of South China tigers. These tigers were born
into concrete cages from parents who were also captive 6. Which of the following could be best supported by
and unable to sustain in the wild.
information from the text?
a. Efforts to save tigers have had some success, but there
are many obstacles to recovery.
b. Efforts to save tigers have failed in the past, but there is
reason to continue trying.
c. Efforts to save tigers have been so successful that they
saved tigers from endangerment.
d. Efforts to save tigers have failed completely.

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