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ลำดับตอนที่ #2 : Topic and Main Idea

Direction: Read the passages and choose the best answer to the questions that follow.

1. The largest telescope is at the Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. It uses a mirror that is 200 inches in diameter. The glass mirror in this telescope gathers as much light as 250 million eye can see. This telescope is used to photograph stars a million times dimmer than the ones we can see with our own eyes. It can see things in space that are two to three billions light years away.

(Marvin H. Young and Lee J. Garfield, Work a Text in Science)

1. What is the topic of this passage?

a. Telescope
b. The Mt. Palomar Observatory
c. Photographing stars
d. the largest telescope

2. What is the main idea of this passage?

1. The telescope is used to photograph stars a million times dimmer than the ones we can see with our eyes.
2. A telescope can see things in the space that are two to three billion light – year away.
3. A telescope uses a mirror that is 200 inches in diameter.
4. The largest telescope is at the Mt. Palomar Observatory in California.

1. One calm summer evening an Illinois family was eating supper when a tornado struck the area suddenly. If lifted the roof and walls of the house away but did not disturb the supper table. In Arkansas a family sitting on the front porch of their house saw the house blown away while the porch stayed behind. In Minnesota, a tornado blew a trunk full of clothes from one house to the attic of another house two blocks away. Whenever there are tornadoes, one will hear strange and almost unbelievable results of these storms.

(Harry Green and others, The New Building Better English)

1. What is the topic of this passage?

1. Strange stories
2. Tornadoes
3. Unbelievable results of tornadoes
4. A calm summer evening in Illinois

2. What is the main idea of this passage?

1. One calm summer evening an Illinois family was eating supper when a tornado struck the area suddenly.
2. The tornado lifted the roof and walls of the house away but did not disturb the supper table.
3. In Minnesota, a tornado blew a trunk full of clothes from one house to the attic of another house two blocks away.
4. Whenever there are tornadoes, one will hear strange and almost unbelievable results of these storms.

1. Louis Armstrong is an example of a person who was moved from rags to riches. His family was poor and lived in the slums of New Orleans. He was an orphan of age ten, yet he learned to play the trumpet in the orphanage and become one of the greatest entertainers in the world. He had sung and played the trumpet in motion pictures, radio, television, and nightclubs. He has been asked to play for audiences in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has become successful by giving people pleasure through music.

1. What is the topic of this passage?

1. Louis Armstrong
2. How to become successful
3. Moving from rages to riches
4. An orphan

2. What is the main idea of this passage?

1. Louis Armstrong has become successful by giving people pleasure through music.
2. Louis learned to play the trumpet in the orphanage and become one of the greatest entertainers in the world.
3. Louis has been asked to play for audiences in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
4. Louis Armstrong is and example of a person who was moved from rags to riches.

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