Shree Bose Review

Comprehension

100

Which of the following best explains why Shree Bose attempted to turn spinach blue?

A. She had to do it for a first-grade science project.

B. She wanted to make eating spinach more fun for her grandfather, whose favorite color was blue.

C. She has always hated the color green.

D. She was curious about whether her reaction to eating spinach would change if the color was different.

D

200

The following passage (paragraphs 4-5) mainly shows that .

Shree returned to the United States and started reading everything she could get her hands on about cancer. She looked at everything from cancer survivors’ blog posts to research journals published by scientists. She watched hours of YouTube videos. “I found myself really loving being able to imagine what was going on within cells,” she recalls.

Shree had never studied cancer before. She emailed dozens of professors around Fort Worth to ask about studying in one of their labs. She just wanted a chance to experiment and learn. They all told her she was too young. “I got rejected by a lot of professors before I found one person who was willing to take me on,” she says.

A. Shree became interested in cancer rather suddenly.

B. Shree has a streak of determination and an eagerness to learn that convinced a professor to teach her, despite her lack of experience and previous knowledge.

C. Shree finds it more fun to learn from YouTube videos and blog posts than studying in a laboratory.

D. Shree felt discouraged because of the many professors who rejected her.

B

300

What is most closely the correct definition of posed as it is used in the first paragraph of the text?

When she was 15, Shree Bose traveled from her home in Fort Worth, Texas, to visit her grandfather in India. He was dying of cancer. Shree had been close to her grandfather even though she lived far away. “While I think the barrier of living on the other side of the world definitely posed a challenge to being able to talk as often as we would have liked, my grandfather was close to both my brother and me," Shree says. “He would visit when we were younger, and when we got a bit older and would travel to India, he would sit and talk with us for hours.”

A. verb | to have presented or caused a problem, danger, or difficulty

B. verb | to have taken on a particular attitude or position to be photographed, painted, or drawn

C. verb | to have raised a question or matter for discussion

D. verb | to have pretended to be someone or something

A

400

Which of the following inferences about Shree Bose is best supported by the text?

A. She is very compassionate and wants to help others.

B. She is often overwhelmed by her role as a female mentor.

C. She is only interested in medical science.

D. She was only interested in science to win competitions like the Google Science Fair.

A

500

Which of the following best explains why Shree Bose is such an important role model?

A. Shree Bose always finds the best ways to mentor and help her fellow students, inspiring them to do better work.

B. Shree Bose is currently an activist against the gender imbalance in the STEM field workforce.

C. There are a lot of women in STEM fields, but not many bring as much youthful enthusiasm to the industry as Shree Bose.

D. Shree Bose is an inspiring and capable woman in STEM, an industry that is traditionally geared toward men and has fewer female mentors for girls.

D

Vocabulary

100

What is the term?

• to present or constitute a problem

Pose

200

What is the term?

• being unlike anything else; one of its kind

Unique

300

What is the term?

• to refuse to consider, accept, or acknowledge

Reject

400

What is the term?

• to show and explain how something works with evidence

Demonstrate 

500

What is the term?

• to bring an end to pain or difficulty

Relieve 

Context and Connotation

100

What is the term?

Dictionary definition 

Denotation 

200

What is the term?

The feelings and ideas the word suggests.

Connotation 

300

What is the term?

Print or digital resources that provide information about words.

Reference materials

400

 “I remember the entire experience as very much of a whirlwind that didn't feel real in a lot of ways. Even so many years later, that experience shaped the excitement with how I approach science and how I approach telling others about my work, and that's a blessing I'll take forward into my life,” she says.

Starting Young

12 Shree was only six years old when she conducted her first experiment. Her first goal was to change vegetables into more interesting colors. She wanted to know if she would eat foods like spinach more often if they were more exciting colors. “It was very much like, ‘I am very bored by the color, so if you make it bright and shiny I will put it in my mouth,’” she says of her first-grade project.

13 Her parents took her seriously. They bought her a spinach plant, blue food coloring, and a syringe to inject into the plant. “They had a big role in how I ended up thinking of science as something I could do,” she says.

14 The spinach plant was successfully dyed blue. Shree forgot to water it, though, and it died in two weeks. “That was my first science project,” she says. She took the dead plant to her first science fair in second grade. “I actually think I got laughed at,” she recalls.

15 Despite the setback, she continued to allow her interests to lead her. Her technique improved with time. She completed projects like the electronic garbage can, for which Shree won a regional award. She also developed a traction pad to help cars get out of the mud when she was in sixth grade.

whirlwind \hwurl-wind\

noun

1. any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea
2. a violent action or destructive force
3. a confused rush

adjective

4. resembling a whirlwind especially in speed or force

Origin: 1300-50, Middle English

setback \set-bak\

noun

1. a reverse or defeat
2. a recession of the upper part of a building from the building line
3. automatic scheduled adjustment to a lower temperature setting of a thermostat
4. the distance of a structure or other feature from the property line

Origin: first recorded in 1665–75

Which definition best matches the way the word whirlwind is used in paragraph 11? Remember to pay attention to the word’s part of speech as you make your decision.

A. Definition 1

B. Definition 2

C. Definition 3

D. Definition 4

C.

500

11 “I remember the entire experience as very much of a whirlwind that didn't feel real in a lot of ways. Even so many years later, that experience shaped the excitement with how I approach science and how I approach telling others about my work, and that's a blessing I'll take forward into my life,” she says.

Starting Young

12 Shree was only six years old when she conducted her first experiment. Her first goal was to change vegetables into more interesting colors. She wanted to know if she would eat foods like spinach more often if they were more exciting colors. “It was very much like, ‘I am very bored by the color, so if you make it bright and shiny I will put it in my mouth,’” she says of her first-grade project.

13 Her parents took her seriously. They bought her a spinach plant, blue food coloring, and a syringe to inject into the plant. “They had a big role in how I ended up thinking of science as something I could do,” she says.

14 The spinach plant was successfully dyed blue. Shree forgot to water it, though, and it died in two weeks. “That was my first science project,” she says. She took the dead plant to her first science fair in second grade. “I actually think I got laughed at,” she recalls.

15 Despite the setback, she continued to allow her interests to lead her. Her technique improved with time. She completed projects like the electronic garbage can, for which Shree won a regional award. She also developed a traction pad to help cars get out of the mud when she was in sixth grade.

whirlwind \hwurl-wind\

noun

1. any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea
2. a violent action or destructive force
3. a confused rush

adjective

4. resembling a whirlwind especially in speed or force

Origin: 1300-50, Middle English

setback \set-bak\

noun

1. a reverse or defeat
2. a recession of the upper part of a building from the building line
3. automatic scheduled adjustment to a lower temperature setting of a thermostat
4. the distance of a structure or other feature from the property line

Origin: first recorded in 1665–75

Based on context, what is the connotation of whirlwind in this article?

A. negative - Shree Bose is describing how tough that time was.

B. negative - Shree Bose is describing how rushed she felt during that time.

C. positive - Shree Bose is describing how intriguing that time was.

D. positive - Shree Bose is describing how exciting that time was.

D.

Print and Graphic Features

100

What is the term?

Presents readers with information or ideas about real people, places, things, and events.

Informational text

200

What is the term? 

Photographs, illustrations, and graphs, which add or summarize information visually to support what the text is saying. 

Graphic features

300

What is the term?

such as tables of contents, headings, and appendices, which organize the text, include supplemental information, and make it easier to navigate

Print features

400

 Shree's youthful involvement in science isn't just important because of her incredible achievements. It is important because participation in science is not as common in young women as it is in young men. Fewer young women engaging in science, technology, engineering, and math (otherwise known as STEM) as youths means fewer girls will become women with jobs in STEM. Statistics support this: according to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce.

Bar Graph. HEADER: Women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce. DESCRIPTION: At the top, the silhouette of a woman holding a clip board appears to the left of a light green horizontal bar with the number 29%. Below her, the silhouette of a man holding a clipboard appears to the left of a longer, orange bar with the number 71%.Women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce.

19 There are currently more jobs in STEM fields than in any other industry. For example, the National Council for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) estimates that there will be around 1.4 million computer specialist job openings expected in the U.S. by 2018. Americans need to fill those jobs, and the best bet to make the best products is to fill at least half of these jobs with women.

What does the heading suggest that this section will be about?

A. finding a researcher to replace Shree Bose

B. how to interest other young women in science

C. ways to teach science in schools

D. finding young women to compete in science fairs

B 

500

 Shree's youthful involvement in science isn't just important because of her incredible achievements. It is important because participation in science is not as common in young women as it is in young men. Fewer young women engaging in science, technology, engineering, and math (otherwise known as STEM) as youths means fewer girls will become women with jobs in STEM. Statistics support this: according to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce.

Bar Graph. HEADER: Women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce. DESCRIPTION: At the top, the silhouette of a woman holding a clip board appears to the left of a light green horizontal bar with the number 29%. Below her, the silhouette of a man holding a clipboard appears to the left of a longer, orange bar with the number 71%.Women make up just 29% of the science and engineering workforce.

19 There are currently more jobs in STEM fields than in any other industry. For example, the National Council for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) estimates that there will be around 1.4 million computer specialist job openings expected in the U.S. by 2018. Americans need to fill those jobs, and the best bet to make the best products is to fill at least half of these jobs with women.

What meaning is conveyed by the first visual in the excerpt?

A. the increasing number of women in STEM jobs

B. the future projected number of men and women in STEM jobs

C. the difference in the number of women and men in STEM jobs

D. the employment opportunities available for women in STEM jobs

C

Synthesizing

100

True or False?

Synthesizing is process of merging, or joining together, new information with other information you have previously gained from your reading in order to reach a new understanding about a topic or subject.

True

200

1 Crickets for dinner? That might sound gross. But billions of people worldwide eat insects. Now, the trend is spreading to the United States.

2 Bugs are a common food in 80 percent of the world’s countries, according to the United Nations. Beetles, caterpillars and crickets can be covered in chocolate or placed atop salads. They can be candied, roasted or fried. They can be ground into powders or eaten whole. If eating bugs is so common, though, why are Americans only considering it now?

3 According to the United Nations, the global population is quickly rising. The world is expected to have 9.7 billion people in 2050. That is a major increase from 2015’s count of 7.3 billion people. More mouths to feed means greater demand for food production. Even if production increases, the UN predicts a global protein shortage. There won’t be enough protein for everybody in the world. That’s bad news for Americans. They eat more meat on average than the rest of the world.

Which answer choice is the best for synthesizing?

A. The world will need to come up with solutions to the protein shortage and may need to consider alternate sources of protein, such as insects.

B. I had previously read that our ancestors ate insects.

C. The global population is rising, and there is a protein shortage.

A.

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1 Crickets for dinner? That might sound gross. But billions of people worldwide eat insects. Now, the trend is spreading to the United States.

2 Bugs are a common food in 80 percent of the world’s countries, according to the United Nations. Beetles, caterpillars and crickets can be covered in chocolate or placed atop salads. They can be candied, roasted or fried. They can be ground into powders or eaten whole. If eating bugs is so common, though, why are Americans only considering it now?

3 According to the United Nations, the global population is quickly rising. The world is expected to have 9.7 billion people in 2050. That is a major increase from 2015’s count of 7.3 billion people. More mouths to feed means greater demand for food production. Even if production increases, the UN predicts a global protein shortage. There won’t be enough protein for everybody in the world. That’s bad news for Americans. They eat more meat on average than the rest of the world.

Which answer choice tells the background knowledge?

A. The world will need to come up with solutions to the protein shortage and may need to consider alternate sources of protein, such as insects.

B. I had previously read that our ancestors ate insects.

C. The global population is rising, and there is a protein shortage.

B

400

1 Crickets for dinner? That might sound gross. But billions of people worldwide eat insects. Now, the trend is spreading to the United States.

2 Bugs are a common food in 80 percent of the world’s countries, according to the United Nations. Beetles, caterpillars and crickets can be covered in chocolate or placed atop salads. They can be candied, roasted or fried. They can be ground into powders or eaten whole. If eating bugs is so common, though, why are Americans only considering it now?

3 According to the United Nations, the global population is quickly rising. The world is expected to have 9.7 billion people in 2050. That is a major increase from 2015’s count of 7.3 billion people. More mouths to feed means greater demand for food production. Even if production increases, the UN predicts a global protein shortage. There won’t be enough protein for everybody in the world. That’s bad news for Americans. They eat more meat on average than the rest of the world.

Which answer choice gives information from the text?

A. The world will need to come up with solutions to the protein shortage and may need to consider alternate sources of protein, such as insects.

B. I had previously read that our ancestors ate insects.

C. The global population is rising, and there is a protein shortage.

C

500

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