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This is a SAMPLE test for Grade: 5, Subject: LanguageArts |
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Test Topic(s):
Reading, Non-Fiction |
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| Read the following text/image to answer questions 1
through 10
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Future of Solar Energy
Solar technology isn't new. It probably started some time in the 7th Century B.C., when people learned how to use glass and sunlight to light a fire. But today's sophisticated solar technologies include everything from solar-powered lights and buildings to solar-powered vehicles. Here is what we can expect in the future from solar technologies.
All our buildings will feature energy-efficient design, construction, and materials as well as renewable energy technologies. In effect, each building will both conserve energy and produce its own supply, to be one of a new generation of cost-effective "zero-energy buildings" that have no net annual need for nonrenewable energy.
In photovoltaic research and development, there will be more breakthroughs in new materials, cell designs, and novel approaches to product development. In a solar future, your mode of transportationand even the clothes you wearcould produce clean, safe electric power.
With today's technology roadmaps to lead the way, concentrating solar power will be fully competitive with conventional power-generating technologies within a decade. Concentrating solar power, or solar thermal electricity, could harness enough of the sun's energy to provide large-scale, domestically secure, and environmentally friendly electricity, especially in the southwestern United States.
The enormous solar power potential of the Southwestcomparable in scale to the huge hydropower resource of the Northwestwill be realized. A desert area 10 miles by 15 miles could provide 20,000 megawatts of power, and the electricity needs of the entire United States could theoretically be met by a photovoltaic array within an area 100 miles on a side.
Within 10 years, photovoltaic power will be competitive in price with traditional sources of electricity.
Solar electricity will be used in an electrolysis process that separates the hydrogen and oxygen in water so the hydrogen can be used in fuel cells for transportation and in buildings.
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| Question 1:
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| What did people use to light a fire in early days? |
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| Question 2:
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| Which of the following solar technologies exists today? |
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| The term used in the above paragraph, "photovoltaic research and development", refers to what kind of research and development? |
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| Which of the following is not mentioned as an expected breakthrough in photovoltaic research and development? |
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| Question 5:
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| Which area of the United States better suited to deploy solar technology? |
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| When does the author expect the solar power to be fully competitive with conventional power-generating technologies? |
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| Question 7:
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| How much electrical power can be generated from a desert area that is 20 miles by 30 miles in size? (hint: remember the key word desert area) |
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| Question 8:
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| What kind of process can be used to separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water? |
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| Question 9:
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| What kind of energy source is used in a fuel cell? |
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| Question 10:
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| Which of the following is a great advantage of the solar technology? |
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