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Then answer each question.  \nA Magical Search for Water  \nWhen Olivia gets thirsty, she turns on the tap for a drink of water . When her Dad wants to wash the dishes, he fills the sink with water from the faucet. When Olivia’s mom turns on a ta p outside, the garden hose brings water to the flowers .  \nHowever, there were no lakes or rivers nearby . Olivia wondered, “Where does all the water come from?”  \n“Our water comes from underground”, her mom explained. “If we lived in town, the water would  \ncome from a water tower or reservoir . Pipes laid under the streets would deliver it to us and our neighbors . Since we live in the country, our water comes from a w ell in our yard. The well is drilled three hundred feet down into an underground stream which fills the well with water .”  \n“How does someone know where to drill to find water?” Olivia wondered.  \nOlivia’s mom introduced her to an elderly neighbor named George . George knew a lot about water . He spent most of his life drilling wells to find it.  \nGeorge invited Olivia to sit down beside him on his front steps . He told her about how he searches for water using a process called dowsing . He said dowsing was an old custom for finding water that still works today . A long time ago, people thought dowsing was some kind of magic, so they started to call it witching .  \nGrade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheet  \n“It has nothing to do with magic,” George explained. “Most dowsers believe it has something to do with static electricity . The energy of the moving water reacts with the static in the dowser’s body . It is not  \na re action that science can easily measure or record.”  \nGeorge described how he uses a Y-shaped branch he calls a gad. He grasps one upper branch of the Y firmly in each hand. George points the bottom of the Yout in front of him . When George walks over a stream of underground water, he can feel the branch move up or down .  \n“Do all dowsers use a wooden gad to look for water?” Olivia asked.  \n“No, dowsers use lots of different tools to search for water,” George said. “They sometimes use a length of metal, like a crowbar . Other dowsers use a gold watch hanging from a chain . For many dowsers two L-shaped wire rods, about the size around of small knitting needles does the job. The dowser holds one wire by the bottom of the L, lightly in each hand. The wire rods cross and un cross in front of the dowser when they walk over an underground stream .”  \n“So, the wire or branch shows you where to put the well?”  \n“It’s not quite that simple,” George said. “A dowser needs to know about the land, different types of rock and how water flows underground. And dowsing doesn’t work for everyone, and not everyone believes it works at all.”  \n“Why not?,” asked Olivia . “Can’t they see when your stick moves? Do they think you’re trying to trick them?”  \nGrade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheet  \n“Some people think I ’m trying to fool them, while others think I ’m fooling myself. There are people who think the movement is some kind of reflex . They believe the dowser causes the movement without knowing it. They think if science cannot measure it or explain it, then it is not real .”  \nGeorge opened his hand to show Olivia his calloused palm . “My hands tell me it works . When a branch has been cut for a while, it dries out and the bark gets hard. If the pull of the water is strong, the gad turns in my hands hard enough for the bark to leave scratches . That would not happen if I was moving the gad. When a branch is fresh and green, the bark will sometimes pull off in my hand when the gad turns . Do you understand?”  \nOlivia was skeptical. She had just completed grade 4, and none of this sounded very scientific . Shouldn’t they be using X-rays or sound waves or Google or something to find water? She couldn’t tell if George was completely serious or not. Still , she liked George, who was smiling at her .  \n“Could","cbCaivjgpBE6VWy6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivjgpBE6VWy6","pdf",119777,"English","# Read the short story\n# Questions\n## Circle the tools a dowser might use\n## Multiple choice\n## List 6 things we need water for\n## Explain whether dowsing works\n# Answers","[{\"question\":\"What materials might a dowser use to search for water?\",\"answer\":\"The worksheet asks students to circle possible tools such as a Y-shaped branch, metal length, watch, wire rods, binoculars, magnet, and other items listed.\"},{\"question\":\"Where do most people who live in the country get their water?\",\"answer\":\"The correct choice in the multiple-choice section is wells.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the worksheet ask students to decide whether dowsing really works?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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