What is the Hyperloop?
an electric car that Elon Musk is designing
a private spaceship that Elon Musk is designing
a traveling tube that Elon Musk is designing
a bullet train that Elon Musk is designing
What does this passage describe?
This passage describes a traveling tube that could help people get around in the future.
This passage describes the costs of building traveling tubes around the world.
This passage describes the damage that cars, planes, and trains do to the environment.
This passage describes the reasons that people are looking for a cheaper-than-ever way to travel.
If built, the Hyperloop would be faster than any other type of transportation.
What evidence from the passage supports this statement?
People using the Hyperloop would travel in pods that are about six-and-a-half feet across.
The Hyperloop is being designed to travel at twice the speed of an airplane.
Right now people can fly, drive, or take a train to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Inventors in other countries are working on technology similar to the Hyperloop.
Read the following sentences:
“Additionally, Musk believes the Hyperloop could be completely powered by the sun—making it more environmentally friendly than cars, airplanes, or train systems. Someday it could possibly move people between the East and West Coasts of the United States in less than an hour, which is faster than any other mode of transportation that exists.”
What does the word mode mean in the sentence above?
ticket
type
train
travel
Based on information in the passage, what is one reason that people might want to use the Hyperloop instead of other kinds of transportation?
People with motion sickness might not be able to handle the Hyperloop.
People are tired of using the same four kinds of transportation over and over.
The Hyperloop could take people to places where planes and trains do not go.
People would not have to pay as much to use the Hyperloop.
