Two-Passage Questions Practice Test
•15 QuestionsText 1
Personal carbon footprint calculators can motivate meaningful change because they translate an abstract crisis into daily decisions. When people see that frequent flying dwarfs the impact of recycling, they may shift travel habits and support cleaner options. The calculators are not perfect, but they give individuals a starting point and a sense of agency. Waiting for governments alone invites paralysis; widespread personal tracking can build a culture that demands broader reform.
Text 2
Footprint calculators often redirect attention away from the actors with the most leverage. Energy systems, freight networks, and building codes shape emissions far more than whether a person buys paper towels. When companies promote calculators, they can imply that climate failure is mainly a consumer’s moral lapse, not a policy and infrastructure problem. Individual choices matter, but the most effective “agency” is collective: voting, organizing, and pushing institutions to decarbonize at scale.
Based on Text 2, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1’s suggestion that widespread personal tracking can build a culture that demands broader reform?
Text 1
Personal carbon footprint calculators can motivate meaningful change because they translate an abstract crisis into daily decisions. When people see that frequent flying dwarfs the impact of recycling, they may shift travel habits and support cleaner options. The calculators are not perfect, but they give individuals a starting point and a sense of agency. Waiting for governments alone invites paralysis; widespread personal tracking can build a culture that demands broader reform.
Text 2
Footprint calculators often redirect attention away from the actors with the most leverage. Energy systems, freight networks, and building codes shape emissions far more than whether a person buys paper towels. When companies promote calculators, they can imply that climate failure is mainly a consumer’s moral lapse, not a policy and infrastructure problem. Individual choices matter, but the most effective “agency” is collective: voting, organizing, and pushing institutions to decarbonize at scale.
Based on Text 2, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1’s suggestion that widespread personal tracking can build a culture that demands broader reform?