Controversy Blazes After Another Fire
In 1969, high school graduate Tim Donovan needed a job to pay for ______
collage
The ____ War turned Cleveland into a manufacturing city almost overnight.
Civil
Over the years, the river transformed from a dump site to a place for recreation. Today, people use the river to _____, _____ and ____.
A) kayak, fish and paddleboard.
B) fish, canoe and swim
C) river rafting, water skiing and fishing
A) kayak, fish and paddleboard.
How many times did the river catch on fire before they did something about it?
At least a dozen
Just like air, water is also dangerously affected by pollution. For centuries, humans contaminated sources of drinking water with raw sewage, which led to diseases such as cholera and ______.
typhoid
Sometimes dead rats even floated by, according to Donovan, they were the size of what?
dogs
By the 1870s, the river had served as an open sewer and dump site for long enough that it was threatening the city’s ____ supply.
water
The pollution in the river hasn’t been entirely resolved, though. In 2018, EPA scientists tested the river bottom and found that polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) levels remain dangerously high. PCBs are toxic chemicals that were used in industrial work until they were banned in ___
1978.
Today, the leading cause of air pollution in the U.S. is ______ Auto emissions also increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
motor vehicles.
Today, over ___ billion people worldwide lack access to safe water.
1 billion
the water bubbled like
soup
stew
witches brew
stew
Cleveland lost about __ manufacturing jobs. Attitudes about the river and its pollution changed. This change, according to historians David and Richard Stradling, was the result of “Americans’ growing suspicion of industrial landscapes.” This, they wrote, is “a suspicion encouraged by the decreasing benefits they derived from such places.”
A) 60,000
B) 30,000
A) 60,000
Today, former steel mill worker Tim Donovan works as the director of the nonprofit Canalway Partners. He’s spent years working to build a ___ along the Cuyahoga River Canal. He hopes that a new public path will make it more accessible to all Cleveland residents and encourage more public interest in protecting the river.
A) walkway
B) path
C) highway
B) highway
By preventing light from moving to space after reflecting off the Earth's surface, these gases _____ in the planet's atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
trap heat
Every ____ seconds somewhere on the planet, a child dies from a water-related disease, according to WaterPartners International.
15
.“The river was a scary little thing,” Donovan says. “There was a general rule that if you fell in, God forbid, you would go immediately to the __
funeral home
hospital
doctors
hospital
It’s hard to say how many times the river has caught fire. We do know about fires in 1868, 1883, 1887, 1912, 1922, 1936, ____ , 1948 and 1952, according to author Laura La Bella.
A) 1940
B) 1942
C) 1941
C) 1941
Other scientists have cautioned that the river still has ____, _____ and _____.
A) feces, viruses and parasites
B) feces, viruses and rats
C) viruses, bacteria and parasites.
C) viruses, bacteria and parasites.
In 1963, in an effort to reduce air pollution, the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act. However, in 2007 about ____ percent of all Americans still lived in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution,
A) 46
B) 56
C) 36
A) 46
Water pollution was made worse by the Industrial Revolution. Factories began releasing pollutants directly into rivers and streams. In ____, chemical waste released into Ohio's Cuyahoga River caused it to burst into flames.
1969,
On the morning of June 22, 1969, an oil slick on the river caught fire. It caused about $_____ in damage
$50,000
Everyone knew the river was polluted. But it was seen as a necessary effect of industrial growth. Author __ E. Newton writes, “Fundamentally this level of environmental degradation was accepted as a sign of success.”
A) Jeremiah
B) David
C) Isaiah
B) David
In 1968, did voters approve a _____ million program to fund the cleanup. The city attempted to improve its sewage system so as not to pollute the lake.
$100
according to the ____ (ALA). The organization specializes in lung-related diseases, and informs the public about the serious dangers of pollution. The ALA describes ozone, or smog, as an irritating, invisible gas.
American Lung Association
In 2007, CNN reported that up to 500 million tons of pollutants slip into the global water supply every year. According to UNESCO, as much as ____ percent of industrial waste is dumped into the rivers and lakes in the developing world.
70