Reading For a Specific Purpose
Use the following selection to practice reading for a specific purpose. Do not be distracted by words or sentences you do not understand. Remember that many times an important idea will be repeated in different words. Read as quickly as possible only to get to know some facts from the history of oil transportation. Then test your comprehension by doing the quiz at the end. Comprehension Quiz Tell whether each of the following statements is true or false according to the selection. Correct the false statements to make them true. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. ________ In the 19-lh century prices for oil were not very high because there were no cheap means of oil transportation. ________ Oilmen did not have wide market for oil in the 19-th century. ________ Roads were usually used to transport oil from the wells to large cities in the 19-th century. ________ A lot of dams were built on the low rivers in order to make them full of water to float barges with oil. ________ Teamsters were destroying the first pipelines because they didn't like the quality of those pipelines. ________ The wide spreading of railroads put an end to the war between oilmen and teamsters. ________ Today there are different means of oil transportation: tankers, barges, pipelines and trucks.
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