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Summary Practice 1
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Which BELONGS in a summary of the text?
W.C. Coup partnered with P.T. Barnum in 1871.
Elephants travel on a circus train too.
Trains made circuses more profitable.
Some circuses used to have more than 600 horses.
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Trains made it easier for circuses to travel.
Circuses grew larger by making more money.
W.C. Coup is credited as one of the first to use a circus train.
Circuses made more money using trains.
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Which best describes that MAIN IDEA of the text?
Small towns are not a great place to bring your circus.
Moving a circus to another town is fast and easy.
P.T. Barnum was a magnificent showman.
Circuses grew larger because of trains.
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TGV trains move so fast that they are dangerous.
April 3rd, 2007 was a historic day for trains.
TGV trains have set many speed records.
TGV is short for 'Train a Grande Vitesse'
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Petrol powered trains can travel pretty fast too.
TGV are the fastest trains in the world.
TGV are French passenger trains.
Electricity powers TGV trains.
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The TGV, a French passenger train, is the fastest in the world.
Electricty is much safer and more efficient that petrol fuel.
A TGV test train reached speeds of up to 357.2 MPH.
The French have no translation for the phrase 'Holy Cow.'
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Cows used to graze on the open range.
Cowboys fought with cattle rustlers to protect their herds.
Trains allowed cowboys to ship cattle across the country.
The Yankees lived in the Northeast, far from the Southwest.
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Easterners paid high prices for beef.
Facing extreme weather was one of the greatest risks of being a cowboy.
Cowboys brought cows to train stations.
Trains brought cows to the East.
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Cowboys lived a very dangerous life but made a lot of money.
Barbed wire ended the open range and the cowboy lifestyle.
Trains helped to grow the beef market and create cowboys.
Cowboys robbed trains and stole easy money from passengers.
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Which BELONGS in a summary of the text?
Busses can drive anywhere but a tram has to stay on a track.
Trams require electric tracks and cables to run.
Auto companies tried to destroy the public tram system.
Labor strikes helped to end the public tram system.
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The Great Depression was another reason the tram system ended.
Car companies worked together to destroy the tram system.
The trams were replaced by busses.
Trams used to be the main form of public transportation.
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Which best describes that MAIN IDEA of the text?
The Great Depression was a very hard time for most Americans.
Car companies made public transportation worse to boost their sales.
Electric trolley cars were inconvient due to needing cables and tracks to run.
The bus system was a great improvement over the electric trolley system.
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