Smart goal Practice

Directions: using text boxes, write these Questions in your blog. then,explain why the answer you choose is correct and explain why The other answers are incorrect.

Context clues:

1. Read the passage then Answer the question

construction on Florence's grand cathedral began in 1296. Over a hundred years later, however,the structure remained unfinished, with an enormous hole in the roof. the designers had intended to top the cathedral with the world's largest dome, but this plan was stymied by architectural limitations. The main factor stalling progress was the fact that no one knew hown to create sreate sush a massive cupola without large, cumbersome support systems.

what is the meaning of cupola as used in the passage?

1. ​​​Dome
2. Roof
3. Decoration
4. cathedral

2. Read the passage then answer the question.

While the political feats of her husband, president chiang Kai-shek, may be more widel recognized soong Mei-ling's accompliishments are just as notkable. AS Frist Lidy, soong Mei-ling introduced her husband to western cultre and ideas. she served as her hsband's emissary, or spokesperson, to the west. During a vist to the United States in 1943, soong Mei-ling became the second woman to address a joint session of the u.s. congress. The trip earned her the estssm of the American public, Who praised her passion and determination, and she raised billions of dollars in aid for her country.

what is the meaing of emissary, as used in the passage?

1.  A person sent of a foreign coutry to do religious work
2. A person sent on a mission to represent another person or country
3. A secret agent
4. A soldier paid by a foreign country