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Crater Lake National Park: A Blue Jewel

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Understand superlatives and inverted word order.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

crater
A large hole at the top of a volcano.
extinct
No longer active or alive.
eruption
The moment when a volcano throws out hot rock and gas.

Answer key

  1. Its water is among the clearest and purest found on Earth.“Among the clearest” means one of the clearest.
  2. Around the lake runs the wall of an extinct volcano.The place comes first: “Around the lake runs the wall…”.
  3. Rainfall and snowfall are the lake’s only source of water.Two nouns joined with “and” take a plural verb: “are”.
  4. But, its depth is not the only remarkable quality.“Not the only” means there are others too.
  5. Ancient Native American stories describe the eruption of Mount Mazama.“Describe” means tell what something was like.

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