Read this sentence from the passage. This gas rises up into the sky. What does rises mean?
Understand Words and Language Structures · TELPAS Grade 2 reading. The correct answer, and the reasoning behind it.
Reporting category 1: work out what words and phrases mean from context, and understand how sentences and word forms work.
Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
Where Rain Comes From
Rain starts as water on the ground, in lakes, rivers, and oceans.
When the sun warms the water, some of it turns into a gas that you cannot see. This gas rises up into the sky.
High in the sky, the air is cool. The cool air turns the gas back into tiny drops of water. Many tiny drops together make a cloud.
When the drops in a cloud grow big and heavy, they fall to the ground as rain.
The question
Choose the best answer.
Read this sentence from the passage. This gas rises up into the sky. What does rises mean?
- Falls down
- Goes upCorrect answer
- Gets wet
- Stops moving
Why “Goes up” is correct
The words "up into the sky" right after rises are the clue: something that rises goes up. Rise is a useful science word, and its opposite, fall, is used later in the same passage.
Why the other answers are wrong
- Falls down — This is the opposite. Rain falls down later, but the gas rises up.
- Gets wet — Rises tells which way the gas moves, not whether it is wet.
- Stops moving — The gas is moving up into the sky, not stopping.
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