📝 Comprehension (reading) 📝

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read a short passage and answer the related questions to each category: Technique, Details, and Vocab.

📌 In this passage, the author explains the formation and uses of diamonds.

📄 They're worn on fingers and in ears, but they form some 160 kilometres below Earth's surface where enormous heat and pressure create the carbon crystals we call diamonds. Volcanic activity brings diamonds near enough to the surface to be mined, after which they are polished, cut, and sold. However, their peerless hardness also makes them perfect for use in industrial drilling and precision-cutting tools. So be sure to admire diamonds for more than just their clarity and brilliance! 📃

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🔰 The answers:


⚙️ Technique

❓The adjective that best describes the style of the passage is... 3️⃣ informative. ✔️

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

🔍 Details

❓The passage claims that diamonds are brought near Earth's surface by... 3️⃣ volcanic activity.✔️

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

📓 Vocab

❓In context, the word 'peerless' most nearly means... 2️⃣ unmatched; ✔️

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➕ Connotation (reading)➖

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Determine the connotation of the word by choosing NEGATIVE (➖) or POSITIVE (➕).

🔘 curative

➖Negative | Positive ➕

It's Positive ➕. TIP: Curative means "tending to remedy a disease or restore to health", which has a positive connotation.

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1️⃣ astounding

➖Negative | Positive ➕

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

2️⃣ enthralling

➖Negative | Positive ➕

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

3️⃣ frantic

➖Negative | Positive ➕

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

4️⃣ solace

➖Negative | Positive ➕

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

5️⃣ hideous

➖Negative | Positive ➕


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🔰 THE ANSWERS:


1️⃣ astounding

Positive ➕. TIP: 'astounding' means "so surprisingly impressive as to stun or amaze", which has a positive connotation.

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2️⃣ enthralling

Positive ➕. TIP: 'enthralling' means "fascinating and capturing interest", which has a positive connotation.

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

3️⃣ frantic

➖Negative. TIP: 'frantic' means "frantic or excessively agitated", which has a negative connotation.

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

4️⃣ solace

Positive ➕. TIP: 'Solace' means "source of comfort or relief", which has a positive connotation.

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖

5️⃣ hideous

➖Negative. TIP: 'hideous' means "ugly or horrible to look at", which has a negative connotation.


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