Comprehension
Joshua has a big baseball game on Thursday night at 7:00. His team is playing their biggest enemy, The Eagles. He could hardly sleep Wednesday night because he was worried about his pitching.
Why couldn’t Joshua sleep the night before his big baseball game?
He was worried about his pitching.
You see a brush, large cans, and a drop cloth on the couch when you get home from school. It smells like chemicals in your living room. When your mom comes out of the kitchen, you can see she has white on her hands. What might she be doing?
Painting the living room
Melanie is in the fourth grade. Her favorite sport is soccer. She loves soccer because she gets to play with her friends. Scoring goals and celebrating with her team is what Melanie loves best. She also enjoys eating the oranges at half-time, they are delicious!
What is the main idea of this passsage?
Melanie's favorite sport is soccer.
In the Lion King, Simba wanted vengeance for his father's death; Scar had killed Simba's father to take power.
What does vengeance mean?
A) revenge B) control C) certainty
A) revenge
Kevin got a new video game for his birthday. It was a soccer game with all of his favorite teams. He played it every night when he got home from school. His mom and dad had to put a time limit on him playing it.
How often did Kevin play his new video game?
Everynight after school
When Mrs. Smith saw Ralph walk into her clothing store, she greeted him by name. Mrs. Smith took Ralph by the arm and led him to a table stacked with new sweaters. Soon she was holding up a red sweater and nodding her head and smiling. Ralph, who had come in only for a pair of socks, started nodding his head along with her. "Not bad," he said, as he reached for his wallet.
What is Ralph going to do?
Purchase the red sweater.
The sun is shining on a cool fall day. The students’ backpacks are filled with new notebooks and pencils. They wait at the bus stop, talking with their friends who they haven’t seen all summer. The teachers are happy as they greet the new students in the hallway on their way to class. Everyone is excited for the first day of school.
What is the main idea of this passage?
Everyone is excited for the first day of school.
Greg pondered the question of what to wear on his first day of school, because he wanted to make a good first impression.
What does pondered mean?
A) tried to forget about B) searched for C) thought carefully about
C) thought carefully about
Today, people think of the TYrannosaurus, or T-Rex, as one of the most dangerous dinosaurs to have ever lived. It gained the nickname T-Rex because the word "Rex" means "king" in Latin. It was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to live on land. The most complete skeleton scientists have found is 40 feet tall.
What does "Rex" mean? And in what language?
"King" in Latin
Your neighbor is building something small in the backyard. He has wood, a hammer, nails and paint. He finally a paints the small roof red and adds some seeds. What do you think he could be building?
A bird house
Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.
What is the main idea of this passage?
Erosion of farmland is a big problem in America.
There was a long hiatus in the television broadcast. This pause was caused by technical problems.
What does hiatus mean?
A) noise B) break C) announcement
B) break
Basketball was invented by James Naismith, a clergyman, educator, and physician from Canada. He created it in 1891 for the YMCA he worked at in Massachusetts as an indoor, winter sport. By the 1950s, basketball was a major college sport.
James Naismith invented basketball. He was a ____, ____, and ____.
Clergyman, educator, and physician
Your parents tell you to go to the gas station and fill the small can with gasoline for them while they sharpen the blade and check the motor. What is your parent going to do?
Mow the lawn
Dolphins are regarded as the friendliest creatures in the sea and stories of them helping drowning sailors have been common since Roman times. The more we learn about dolphins, the more we realize that their society is more complex than people previously imagined. They look after other dolphins when they are ill, care for pregnant mothers and protect the weakest in the community, as we do. Some scientists have suggested that dolphins have a language but it is much more probable that they communicate with each other without needing words. Could any of these mammals be more intelligent than man? Certainly the most common argument in favor of man's superiority over them that we can kill them more easily than they can kill us is the least satisfactory. On the contrary, the more we discover about these remarkable creatures, the less we appear superior when we destroy them.
What is the main idea of this passage?
As we learn more about dolphins, we understand that we, as humans, are not "superior" to them as animals.
Humans are not superior to dolphins.
We are still learning a lot about dolphins.
Grandma Marie loved to indulge her grandchildren whenever she was watching them, giving them all the things they were never allowed to have, like soda and greasy food.
What does indulge mean?
A) spoil B) ignore C) starve
A) spoil