Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers Reading Answers
Answer questions 1-13 based on the reading passage given below.
Striking Back at Lightning with Lasers
Answers
The answers to questions 1-13 are given below along with their explanations.
Question Number | Answer | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
---|---|---|---|
1 | D | equipped, armoury of lasers, pointing towards the heavens, thunderclouds before lightning | Para 2, last 2 lines |
2 | A | And there is damage, property | Para 1, lines 4-5 |
3 | A | University of Florida, Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), University of New Mexico, leading a project, backed by EPRI | Para 3, lines 4-5;
Para 5, lines 2-3 |
4 | Power companies | EPRI, which is funded by power companies | Para 3, lines 5-6 |
5 | safely | try to use lasers, discharge lightning safely | Para 5, line 3 |
6 | size | Diels, cut down, size | Para 7, line 2 |
7 | B | revealing, ability, extract electrons, atoms, create ions | Para 6, first 2 lines |
8 | C | portable enough, taken to international sporting events, beam up, storm clouds | Para 6, last 2 lines |
9 | G | researchers tried firing rockets trailing wires into thunderclouds to set up an easy discharge path | Para 3, lines 2-3 |
10 | D | Instead, directed at a mirror, into the sky | Para 6, line 6 |
11 | NO | But, not yet come up, $5 million, EPRI says, needed | Para 8, first 2 lines |
12 | YES | He reckons, forthcoming field tests, turning point, good news, predicts `an avalanche of interest and support’ | Para 8, lines 4-6 |
13 | NOT GIVEN |
Also check :