*Please refer to the article attached*
1. What can you conclude about the two U.S. cities planning to build desalination plants?
A. They have run out of water.
B. They are located on the coast.
C. They are among the wealthiest U.S. cities.
D. They have no access to underground aquifers.
- From the first article, you can conclude that in the future, desalination plants
F. will become less popular as the demand for water drops.
G. will become less popular as other technologies are invented.
H. will become more popular only if the operating costs come down.
I. will become more popular whether or not the technology improves.
3. What can you conclude from the second article about the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan?
A. It created a huge water shortage.
B. It destroyed water-supplying tankers.
C. It proved the usefulness of water bags.
D. It showed how expensive a disaster can be.
4. What problem do both articles address?
F. transporting freshwater to people
G. supplying drinking water to people
H. creating freshwater from salt water
I. providing emergency water supplies
5. What kinds of places would be most likely to use the water bag technology rather than building a desalination plant?
A. poor, rural areas
B. large, wealthy cities
C. dry, inland deserts
D. small, isolated islands
6. How does Terry Spragg's invention solve the problem of transporting water bags?
F. He links together smaller bags that are less likely to rip.
G. He tows the water behind tugboats in floating boxcars.
H. He uses zippers with specialized teeth that prevent leakage.
I. He uses improved methods to fill the bags with pipelines.
7. Read the sentence.
A water-covered planet facing a water crisis seems paradoxical.
What does paradoxical mean?
A. typical of a given situation
B. dependent on two similar factors
C. contrary to what one would expect
D. related to many contributing causes
8.How has new technology improved the original desalination plants and water bags? EXPLAIN Support your answer with details and information from both articles.
