Read the following passage.
A. The Forks is a busy public space in the centre of downtown Winnipeg, where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, and its grounds are open all year. Visitors find an interpretive park, historic and new buildings, a skateboard park and a historic port. At its centre is Oodena Celebration Circle, an outdoor amphitheatre where sacred events take place and powwows are held in the summer months. More than four million people come each year, and over 1,200 people work on the site.
B. People have gathered here for at least 6,000 years. Archaeological digs between 1989 and 1994 uncovered a 6,000-year-old hearth, or fireplace, holding catfish bones and stone tool flakes, along with later camps of bison hunters. By the time of the fur trade, Nakoda (Assiniboine), Cree, Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) and Dakota people visited the site. Elders say that many nations met here for trade, healing, politics and even battle, and that no one nation could claim the place for itself. Many call it the birthplace of the Métis Nation, and it lies on Treaty No. 1 territory.
C. Fur traders from Europe reached The Forks in the 18th century. In 1738 La Vérendrye had Fort Rouge built where the two rivers join, and the rival fur companies later used the site to store and ship their supplies. After Manitoba became part of Canada in 1870, the government put up two immigration sheds here, each holding up to 500 people, and Winnipeg became known as the Gateway to the Canadian West. Starting in 1886, railway companies filled the land with stations and rail yards.
D. The Forks changed again in the 1980s, when two corporations were founded to redevelop the district, and it emerged as a tourist destination in the late 1980s. Buildings from the railway era were kept and given new uses. The Forks Market occupies the former horse stables of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Great Northern railways, and the Johnston Terminal, once a railway warehouse, now houses shops and offices. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights opened at The Forks in 2014. Over about 35 years, an abandoned rail yard has become the leading destination in Winnipeg.
E. Not given in any of the above paragraphs.
Decide which paragraph, A to D, has the information given in each statement below. Select E if the information is not given in any of the paragraphs.
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Correct Answer: C
Why this is correct: Look at Paragraph C. After 1870, the government put up two immigration sheds at The Forks. Each one could hold up to 500 people. Sheds for immigrants are shelters for arriving settlers.
Passage Reference: After Manitoba became part of Canada in 1870, the government put up two immigration sheds here, each holding up to 500 people, and Winnipeg became known as the Gateway to the Canadian West.
Tips: Paragraph A also counts people. Check whether they are visitors or newcomers.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A gives big numbers too, such as four million visitors a year. Those are tourists today, not settlers in sheds.
- B: Paragraph B describes early camps of bison hunters. It does not mention buildings for settlers.
- D: Paragraph D is about old railway buildings getting new uses. The immigration sheds are not mentioned.
- E: The two sheds for 500 people each are in Paragraph C.
Correct Answer: E
Passage Reference: The Forks changed again in the 1980s, when two corporations were founded to redevelop the district, and it emerged as a tourist destination in the late 1980s.
Why this is correct: Paragraph D tells you that two corporations were founded in the 1980s to redevelop the district. It never says who first had the idea. Business owners are not mentioned at all.
Tips: Ask who had the idea. The text tells you what happened, not who suggested it.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A describes what visitors find today. It does not say whose plan created the space.
- B: Paragraph B covers thousands of years of gatherings. It has nothing about planning a public space.
- C: Paragraph C names La Vérendrye and railway companies. None of them proposes a public space.
- D: The redevelopment is in Paragraph D, but the people behind the idea are never named.
Correct Answer: B
Passage Reference: Archaeological digs between 1989 and 1994 uncovered a 6,000-year-old hearth, or fireplace, holding catfish bones and stone tool flakes, along with later camps of bison hunters.
Why this is correct: Look at Paragraph B. Digs from 1989 to 1994 uncovered a hearth that is 6,000 years old. A hearth is a fireplace, and it held catfish bones. A fire pit this old is what the statement describes.
Tips: Look for a fire pit found at the location. Check how long ago it was used: a few centuries, or thousands of years?
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A lists what visitors see now, like a park and a port. No ancient fire is mentioned.
- C: Paragraph C starts with the fur traders in the 18th century. It does not describe any older finds.
- D: Paragraph D also looks at old things, but they are railway buildings. They are not thousands of years old.
- E: The ancient hearth is described in Paragraph B.
Correct Answer: D
Passage Reference: The Forks Market occupies the former horse stables of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Great Northern railways, and the Johnston Terminal, once a railway warehouse, now houses shops and offices.
Why this is correct: Paragraph D tells you about the Johnston Terminal. It was once a railway warehouse, which is a building for storing goods. Now it houses shops and offices.
Tips: Find a railway building that stored goods. Check what it did then and who fills it today.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A mentions historic buildings in general. It does not say what any building used to be.
- B: Paragraph B is about Indigenous gatherings over thousands of years. There are no railway buildings in it.
- C: Paragraph C says railway companies filled the land with stations and yards. It does not say what those buildings became.
- E: The old warehouse and its new use are in Paragraph D.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: In 1738 La Vérendrye had Fort Rouge built where the two rivers join, and the rival fur companies later used the site to store and ship their supplies.
Why this is correct: Look at Paragraph C. In 1738 La Vérendrye had Fort Rouge built where the two rivers join. The year 1738 is in the late 1730s.
Tips: Several paragraphs say the rivers meet. Look for the one with a fort and a year.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A also says the rivers meet here, but it describes the place today. No fort is mentioned.
- B: Paragraph B mentions the fur trade era, but only to say which nations visited. It does not name a fort.
- D: Paragraph D is about the 1980s and later. Nothing is built in the 1730s there.
- E: Fort Rouge and the year 1738 are in Paragraph C.
Correct Answer: A
Passage Reference: More than four million people come each year, and over 1,200 people work on the site.
Why this is correct: Paragraph A closes with two numbers. Over 1,200 people work on the site. That is more than a thousand people with jobs there.
Tips: Paragraph C also has a number of people. Check if the number is about jobs.
Why the other options are wrong:
- B: Paragraph B mentions bison hunters and traders long ago. It does not count people working at the site today.
- C: Paragraph C gives the number 500, but that is how many people each immigration shed could hold. It is not a count of workers.
- D: Paragraph D says shops and offices fill an old warehouse. No count of workers appears there.
- E: The number of people who work at The Forks is in Paragraph A, next to the visitor count.
Correct Answer: D
Passage Reference: The Forks Market occupies the former horse stables of the Grand Trunk Pacific and Great Northern railways, and the Johnston Terminal, once a railway warehouse, now houses shops and offices.
Why this is correct: Look at Paragraph D. The Forks Market occupies the former horse stables of two railways. Stables are buildings where horses are kept. So horses once lived where the market is now.
Tips: Find the sentence about the market and check what the building was before.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A lists places visitors see today. The market and horses are not in it.
- B: Paragraph B mentions bison hunters, not horses. It does not describe any building.
- C: Paragraph C describes railways arriving in 1886. It does not mention stables or a market.
- E: The stables that became the market are in Paragraph D.
Correct Answer: C
Passage Reference: After Manitoba became part of Canada in 1870, the government put up two immigration sheds here, each holding up to 500 people, and Winnipeg became known as the Gateway to the Canadian West.
Why this is correct: Look at Paragraph C. After the immigration sheds were built, Winnipeg became known as the Gateway to the Canadian West. A gateway is a doorway, and became known as means it got that name.
Tips: Look for the doorway nickname. Then check that it is given to the whole city, not to one site inside it.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A places The Forks in downtown Winnipeg. It gives the city no nickname.
- B: Paragraph B mentions the name The Forks is known by as a birthplace. That is not a name for Winnipeg.
- D: Paragraph D calls The Forks the leading destination in Winnipeg. Those words describe The Forks, and they give the city no nickname.
- E: You can find the Gateway nickname for Winnipeg in Paragraph C, after the immigration sheds.
Correct Answer: D
Passage Reference: Buildings from the railway era were kept and given new uses.
Why this is correct: The clue is in Paragraph D. Buildings from the railway era were kept and given new uses. Kept means saved, and new uses means different purposes.
Tips: Paragraph C has the railway arriving. Look for the paragraph about what happened to its buildings later.
Why the other options are wrong:
- A: Paragraph A lists historic and new buildings. It does not say they were railway buildings with new uses.
- B: Paragraph B is about camps and gatherings long before the railway. No buildings are saved there.
- C: Paragraph C shows railways building stations and yards in 1886. Their later reuse is not part of that paragraph.
- E: Railway buildings given new uses are in Paragraph D.
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