Comprehension
Read the following text, then choose the correct answer.
I bake a cake. My father helps. We like to make good food. We use flour, eggs, and milk. We bake the cake in the oven for 30 minutes. Tomorrow, we will take the cake to a picnic. The picnic is at the lake.
Which sentence gives you details you would need to know if you were going to the store to buy ingredients for a cake?
A. We bake the cake in the oven for 30 minutes.
B. We use flour, eggs, and milk.
C. The picnic is at the lake.
D. We like to make good food.
B. We use flour, eggs, and milk.
I used paints and paper to _______ a painting.
A. port
B. display
C. create
D. fragile
C. create
Read these words.
they, look, fake, the
paint, to, real, bones
Which sentence puts the words in the best order?
A. To paint the real bones they look fake.
B. They look fake to the real bones paint.
C. The paint bones they look to real fake.
D. They paint the fake bones to look real.
D. They paint the fake bones to look real.
There is a legend about a giant beast that used to live in the ________ in Africa.
A. pulleys
B. port
C. desert
C. desert
port
Read the following excerpt for the passage, then choose the correct answer.
Excerpt from "Africa Digs!"
They put the bones on a ship, which takes them across the Atlantic. Then, the bones are shipped to Chicago.
The team carefully opens each piece and cleans each bone. They match the numbers on the jackets to the numbers in the dig's log. The bones are put in the right order. Now it's time to rebuild the skeleton.
This step takes two years and hundreds of hours. They use dental tools, tiny jackhammers, and chemicals. The work is careful and precise. They have to clean more than 200 hones. These bones came from the adult Jobaria. But they have some other bones as well. These are from young Jobaria. They clean these bones too.
Once the bones were in Chicago, which step happened first?
A. The scientists brushed the bones.
B. The scientists unwrapped and cleaned the bones.
C. The scientists made clay bones to fill in the missing ones.
D. The scientists attached copies of the bones to a steel frame.
B. The scientists unwrapped and cleaned the bones.
They drive 1,000 miles to a PORT in Ghana.
Which if these is related to the word port?
A. a cargo ship
B. a garden
C. a special tool
D. a painting
A. a cargo ship
Read the following excerpt from the passage, then choose the correct answer.
The Touareg tribe helped his team look for bones. The Touareg people live in Niger. They know their DESERT land best. They know where to look for bones.
Which category does the word desert belong to?
A. state
B. building
C. event
D. place
D. place
Scientists dug very carefully for the ________ bones because they didn't want to break them.
A. fragile
B. port
C. precise
A. fragile
emerge
Read the following excerpt from the passage, then choose the correct answer.
They have good luck! They have almost all of the adult's bones. What about the ones that are missing? They fill in the missing bones by making them out of foam and clay.
This paragraph explains how the scientists _______.
A. have good luck
B. find the adult's bones
C. fill in the missing bones
D. make things with foam
C. fill in the missing bones
The scientists make a precise measurement. Precise means ______.
A. exact
B. protect
C. quick
D. fragile
A. exact
A. Please log these items in the notebook.
B. We sat on a log and ate our lunch.
C. After we log the field, we can build a house.
D. I am not able to log in to your e-mail.
B. We sat on a log and ate our lunch.
The scientist needed to be _______ in where and how they dug.
A. precise
B. create
C. desert
A. precise
The bones had to be shipped on a boat. The nearest ______ was 1,000 miles away.
A. port
B. precise
C. pulleys
Read the following excerpt from the passage, then choose the correct answer.
Dr. Paul Sereno digs dinosaur bones. He gets a thrill when he digs up the bones of dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago. In 1997, Dr. Sereno led a dig in Niger, Africa. He took 18 scientists with him. The Touareg tribe helped his team look for bones. The Touareg people live in Niger. They know their desert land best. They know where to look for bones.
Why did Dr. Sereno and his team visit Niger, Africa?
A. to learn about the desert
B. to study the Touareg people
C. to look for dinosaur bones
D. to see if Jobaria was real
C. to look for dinosaur bones
Which of these would you want to display?
A. a mistake you made
B. a prize you won
C. a cake you burned
D. a pair of socks
B. a prize you won
The scientists cleaned the bones.
Which word is the direct object?
A. scientists
B. bones
C. cleaned
D. the
B. bones
The bones ______ from under the desert sand after careful digging.
A. desert
B. emerged
C. create
B. emerged
Some of the bones were not found, so they had to make them. They used foam and clay to _______ the missing pieces.
A. emerged
B. fragile
C. create
C. create
Read the following excerpt from the passage, then choose the correct answer.
The team must take them bones to their lab in Chicago. Twenty tons of bones have to be moved. Some weigh more than 500 pounds. There is no easy way to move them. They use a tripod, pulleys, rope, and a chain. They load the bones on a ship, which takes them across the Atlantic. Then, the bones are shipped to Chicago.
Which sentence summarizes the paragraph?
A. The dinosaur bones had a long trip from Africa to Chicago.
B. Dinosaur bones are heavy.
C. Ships are the best way to get dinosaur bones to Chicago.
D. Trucks have to drive slowly when they carry dinosaur bones.
A. The dinosaur bones had a long trip from Africa to Chicago.
Jobaria's bones are too heavy and FRAGILE to put together.
Which is an antonym for the word fragile.
A. dainty
B. smooth
C. afraid
D. sturdy
D. sturdy
Dr. Sereno and his team assembled a _________.
A. dinosaur's bones
B. dinosaurs bone's
C. dinosaurs' bones
D. dinosaurs bones
A. dinosaur's bones
Because they were so heavy, the bones had to be loaded onto trucks using tripods and ______.
A. port
B. pulleys
C. display
B. pulleys
At last, they had a dinosaur to ______ in the museum for everyone to see.
A. emerged
B. port
C. display
C. display