Test: Factual Passage - Grade 9 MCQ

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Choose the option that lists the correct answers for the following:
(1) The Sahara was quite a different place. It was green. When was this?
(2) The monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. When did this happen?

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Q. Despite the dry land, Sahara has vast amount of water:

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.
1. Roshni Bairwa remembers running all the way from her home in Tonk’s Mahmoodnagar Dhani village to the room where the ‘bal samooh’ (children’s group) met. “My grandparents are getting me married, you have to do something,” the then 12-year-old told the 20 or so children sitting there.

2. The children, all aged between eight and 16, trooped up to Roshni’s house and urged her grandparents to stop the impending wedding. Others, including village elders and teachers, joined in. The wedding was stopped. She had discovered a way out of the quagmire with the help of a local NGO and the village children.

3. When she was in class XII, the pressure to get married returned. This time her uncle found a match for her. When she resisted, she was taunted and beaten. People would point to her as the girl who brought shame to her family and asked their children not to speak to her. “I was 16 years old and alone in the world. I walked to school with my eyes fixed to the ground. I would think sometimes, what have I done that is so terrible for everyone to hate me so much? I would cry myself to sleep,” recalls Roshni, who lost her father when she was two and had been abandoned by her mother shortly after. But even in those dark moments, Roshni didn’t give up, moving out of the village to Peeplu tehsil in Rajasthan where she rented a room and attended college.

4. With education and independence came a sense of confidence. “I kept in touch with the children in the village. Every time there was child marriage, they would call me and I would go to stop it. I realised I had already been thrown out of the village, the worst had already happened, what else could the villagers do? So I went and fought with everyone who was getting their child married,” she says with a laugh. So far she has stopped over a dozen marriages.

5. Even without the support of the law, young girls have been crusading against the practice. Earlier this month, 19-year-old Sushila Bishnoi from Barmer succeeded in getting her marriage annulled, submitting photographs, and congratulatory messages from her husband’s Facebook account to the court. The court accepted these as evidence that the union took place when both the bride and groom were 12 years old and declared the marriage invalid.

6. Seema Bairwal (name changed) was 15 when she was married to a man a few years older. Later when she started attending ‘bal samooh’ meetings with NGO Shiv Shiksha Samiti and Save the Children, it dawned on her that she had a choice. “I learnt that my life is mine. I have the power to say no to marriage

The brides mentioned in the passage are rebels against

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Q. The monsoon shift coincided with:

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Q. Which of the following statements about how the rich underground reserves help Sub- Saharan Africa is correct?

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Q. What played an important and role in the formation of Sahara as we know it today?

A factual passage is composed of information about a particular subject in a clear, straightforward, and direct manner. These passages focus completely on details or facts. It gives a comprehensive view on the information provided and may include instructions to do something, a report about new findings, or a description of something. Most often, it also requires the students to study and interpret dues, decipher them, and answer the question given. Example: Head the passage given be Low.

(1) The Sahara sets a standard for dry land, It's the worlds largest desert. Relative humrdrty can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky. Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh warer, enough liquid to fill a small sea. it is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just years ago, the Sahara was quite a different place, it was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, who need water year round.

(2) We don't have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, bu t we hod something perfectly livable, says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis. At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and die planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the North's summer months can cause the African monsoon fwhrch currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17*N latitude,) to shift to the North as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.

(3) Around 5,000 years ago, the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Walley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).

(4) As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil, lost its ability to hold water when it rair>ed. Fev/er clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained1, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. Around 4,000 years ago, the Sahara became what it is today. No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future its something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from the underground. "Its the best water in Egypt, "Robert Giegengack a University of Pennsylvania geologist, said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.

Q. Fossil water comes from heavy rains.