SKILL: MAKING VALID GENERALIZATIONS Use the paragraph below to answer the following questions.
The Chinese people also call the Huang River “China's Sorrow.” The river was unpredictable and sometimes
dangerous. It brought life to the land. But it also frequently took life away. Destructive floods could come
without warning, sometimes as often as every two years. Sometimes a flood drowned thousands of people.
At times, the river flooded with such force that the water cut an entirely new path over the land. The course
of the river could change by hundreds of miles.
What is a generalization you can make about the Huang River?