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Summary Practice 1
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Which BELONGS in a summary of the text?
Trains made circuses more profitable.
Elephants travel on a circus train too.
Some circuses used to have more than 600 horses.
W.C. Coup partnered with P.T. Barnum in 1871.
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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.
Trains made it easier for circuses to travel.
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P.T. Barnum was a magnificent showman.
Circuses grew larger because of trains.
Small towns are not a great place to bring your circus.
Moving a circus to another town is fast and easy.
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April 3rd, 2007 was a historic day for trains.
TGV trains have set many speed records.
TGV is short for 'Train a Grande Vitesse'
TGV trains move so fast that they are dangerous.
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TGV are French passenger trains.
Electricity powers TGV trains.
Petrol powered trains can travel pretty fast too.
TGV are the fastest trains in the world.
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Electricty is much safer and more efficient that petrol fuel.
The TGV, a French passenger train, is the fastest in the world.
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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Trains allowed cowboys to ship cattle across the country.
The Yankees lived in the Northeast, far from the Southwest.
Cows used to graze on the open range.
Cowboys fought with cattle rustlers to protect their herds.
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Cowboys brought cows to train stations.
Easterners paid high prices for beef.
Trains brought cows to the East.
Facing extreme weather was one of the greatest risks of being a cowboy.
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Cowboys lived a very dangerous life but made a lot of money.
Trains helped to grow the beef market and create cowboys.
Cowboys robbed trains and stole easy money from passengers.
Barbed wire ended the open range and the cowboy lifestyle.
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Busses can drive anywhere but a tram has to stay on a track.
Auto companies tried to destroy the public tram system.
Trams require electric tracks and cables to run.
Labor strikes helped to end the public tram system.
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Car companies worked together to destroy the tram system.
The Great Depression was another reason the tram system ended.
Trams used to be the main form of public transportation.
The trams were replaced by busses.
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The bus system was a great improvement over the electric trolley system.
Car companies made public transportation worse to boost their sales.
Electric trolley cars were inconvient due to needing cables and tracks to run.
The Great Depression was a very hard time for most Americans.
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