What is the passage mainly about?

A Vermont farmer spent his life photographing snow crystals. (The passage is about one man and one long task. The camera and the microscope are tools in that story.)

According to the passage, how long did it take Bentley to get his first picture?

Two winters. (The third paragraph opens with it. Forty-six years is how long he worked afterward, and fifteen is his age when he got the microscope.)

In this passage, "patient" describes someone who

keeps working at something slow without giving up (Two winters for one picture, then forty-six years in an unheated shed. The numbers around the word show what it means here.)

"The pictures outlasted the opinion" suggests that

what his village thought of him mattered less in the end than his work (The opinion is the village calling him strange. The pictures are still with us, so the work outlived the judgement.)

The Farmer Who Photographed Snow: Level 1 Reading Comprehension Questions

Wilson Bentley was a farmer in Vermont. He was also the first person to photograph a single snow crystal.

He was fifteen when his mother gave him an old microscope. He caught snowflakes on a black board, carried them into a cold shed, and looked. What he saw would melt in a minute, and he could not draw fast enough. So he asked for a camera, and his family bought one that cost more than the farm could easily spare.

It took him two winters to get one picture. He was nineteen. He kept going for forty-six more years, in a shed with no heat, working in the cold so that his subject would not vanish. He made more than five thousand photographs of snow crystals.

He never sold many. He gave prints away and charged little, and in his village he was known mostly as a strange, patient neighbor. The pictures outlasted the opinion. Almost every image of a snowflake we know began in that shed.

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