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I really need help with this common lit assignment. The photos are for the passage and theses are the questions.
1. PART A: Which TWO of the following best identify the main ideas of this article?
A. Fingerprints are still the most accurate way to identify a person.
B. Blood vessels have the same structure as fingerprints.
C. Biometric features are slightly different in everyone.
D. Biometrics is the measurement of life.
E. Biometric technology can help in areas of security, privacy, and health.
F. Children in West Africa desperately need vaccines.
2. PART B: Which TWO sentences from the article best support the answers to Part A?
[RI.2]
[RI.1]
A. âFingerprints probably represent the best-known example of a feature useful in biometrics.â (Paragraph 5)
B. âAny feature of the body with a unique shape, size, texture or pattern ... potentially can be used to identify someone.â (Paragraph 5)
C. âIt can be hard to get a good print from people who have worn down the skin on their fingers after years of working with rough materials, such as brick or stone.â (Paragraph 32)
D. âHealth officials tap into this file, using the fingerprint scanner, to accurately identify which children still need vaccinating...â (Paragraph 40)
E. âUsing biometrics to keep kids healthy, log onto electronic devices and catch criminals are important applications.â (Paragraph 42)
F. âWe eventually want to use facial recognition in robots that can identify who you are.â (Paragraph 44)
3. Which of the following best describes the relationship between the Boston Marathon [RI.3] bombing and biometrics?
A. Because of the newly developed biometric technology, the FBI was able to quickly identify two suspects.
B. The blurry photos released by the FBI after the bombing prompted researchers to improve their early biometric software.
C. Because biometric technology was unavailable at the time, the Boston Marathon bomber remains at large.
D. The Boston Marathon bombing made researchers aware of how biometric technology is sometimes useless and ineffective.
4. Which statement best states how the author conveys her purpose for writing the article?
[RI.6]
A. The author presents her opinions on why biometric technology is helpful.
B. The author presents various researchers who are using biometric technology in
a variety of ways.
C. The author provides evidence that supports the claim that old methods of
identification are unhelpful.
D. The author presents the progress she has made in the field of biometrics.
5. PART A: In paragraph 40, the text says, âthe âusernameâ for each medical file is the [RI.4] childâs fingerprint.â Which of the following best explains the meaning of this
statement?
A. The childâs vaccination record is labeled with a picture of their fingerprint.
B. The childâs vaccination record also contains information about their fingerprint.
C. The childâs fingerprint is the only way they can be vaccinated.
D. The childâs vaccination record is directly linked to their fingerprint.
6. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer for Part A? [RI.1]
A. â'It turns out blood vessels and other structures below the skin have the same shape as the fingerprint on the surface of the finger...ââ (Paragraph 37)
B. âHealth workers there have so far scanned the fingers of more than 20,000 children.â (Paragraph 39)
C. âHealth officials tap into this file, using the fingerprint scanner, to accurately identify which children still need vaccinating â and which donât.â (Paragraph 40)
D. ââWithout a record of a childâs vaccination, we usually re-vaccinate them,â says VaxTrac project manager Meredith Baker.â (Paragraph 41)
7. Which TWO of the following quotes from the text best summarize the benefits of Rob [RI.1] Roweâs fingerprint scanner?
A. "When investigating a crime, police often look for fingerprints... Later, if a fingerprint lifted from the scene of a crime matches one on file, police know that person was at the scene." (Paragraph 31)
B. "It can be hard to get a good print from people who have worn down the skin on their fingers... It also can be hard to get good fingerprints from young children" (Paragraph 32)
C. "An optical physicist, Rowe studies light and how it interacts with things." (Paragraph 33)
D. âWhen someone places a finger on the pad, different colors of light illuminate it from below.â (Paragraph 34)
E. âAs each wavelength of light bounces back to the scanner, it creates a pattern tracing out the blood vessels within the finger.â (Paragraph 36)
F. "'It turns out blood vessels and other structures below the skin have the same shape as the fingerprint on the surface of the finger,' ... So an image of those vessels is just as good as a fingerprint, if not better." (Paragraph 37)
8. How does Savvidesâ Lego explanation help explain how his biometric algorithm [RI.5] works?
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