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8. Sequence
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All About
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Me
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Directions
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Main
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Idea
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9. What is happening in this picture? What will happen next. Give details.
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10. What is happening in this picture? What will happen next.
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11. What is happening in this picture? What will happen next.
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12. What is happening in this scene? What will happen next?
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13. What is happening in this scene? What will happen next?
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14. Tell about what you like to do for fun.
Where do you go?
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15. Tell about what you like to do after
school. Where do you go? What do you
usually do?
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16. You are at the mall. You see a really
good friend who moved away and
whom you haven’t seen for 3 years.
What do you ask him?
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17. Tell about a famous person you would
like to meet. What do you like about this
person? What would you do with this
person?
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18. What would you have done
if you had won the lottery
last week?
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19. Look at the sentence below. Notice the words that are
underlined. Think what they mean. Below the
sentence are two possible meanings. Choose the right
one.
Mary was feeling blue about the loss of her dog.
a. turning color b. sad and upset
QUESTION: You are asked to find the meaning of:
a. a colored picture
b. the underlined words
c. the sentence
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20. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
Read the two sentences below. Part of each sentence
gives a reason. Find that part and read it out loud.
Mother went to bed early because she was tired.
Tom worked had in order to get good marks.
QUESTION: You are asked to find:
a. the time
b. a reason
c. the place
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21. FOLLOW DIRECTIONS
Read the little story. Then read the two sentences below the story. Read out loud the
sentence that tells what happened next.
Dick ran into the store. He was not looking where he was going. Jack was
running, too. He wasn’t looking either.
*The man gave Dick the milk and bread.
* The boys ran into one another.
QUESTION: You are asked to find out:
a. where Dick went
b. what happened next
c. why the boy ran
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22. Read the little story. Then read the two sentences below the
story. Read out loud the sentence that tells what happened
next.
Dick ran into the store. He was not looking where he was
going. Jack was running, too. He wasn’t looking either.
*The man gave Dick the milk and bread.
* The boys ran into one another.
QUESTION: For the little story you are asked to:
a. make up an ending
b. choose an ending
c. have no ending
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23. From this little story you should get an idea of how
Dick felt. Find the word below the story that tells.
Dick saw something in the dark. His heart
skipped a beat. “Oh,” he thought, “if I could only
get out of here.”
Dick was … happy, sad, afraid
QUESTION: You are asked to find out:
a. what happened
b. how Dick felt
c. where Dick was
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24. Some camels start to run just as soon as the rider dismounts.
Such behavior could leave a person stranded in the desert,
far from water. Sometimes camels just won’t do what their
riders want them to do. Sometimes the animals want to go
where they please. The worst habit a camel can have is to
throw its rider by kneeling quickly.
The story mainly tells:
a. Why camels don’t like their riders
b. Why camels run away
c. How people travel in the desert
d. What bad habits some camels have
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25. MAIN IDEA
Years ago, guests at weddings were often given white gloves as
presents. The white gloves were given not only to those who
attended the wedding, but also to all friends of the bride and
groom. To cut down on the cost, some families gave paper
gloves. The gloves served to remind the guests of the happy
wedding they had attended.
The story mainly tells:
a. Why people wear paper gloves
b. What gifts people often gave at weddings
c. How customs change
d. What weddings are like
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26. MAIN IDEA
The cat is one of nature’s most amazing animals. It has 288 light
bones of incredible strength. It also has 517 spring-like
muscles. As a result, the cat almost seems to float into the air
when it jumps. Furthermore, it can pick up the directions of a
sound ten times faster than a dog can. Its vision is six times
better than that of a person.
The main idea of the paragraph is:
a. Why cats are unusual
b. How many bones cats have
c. How much cats weigh
d. How well cats can hear
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27. IDENTIFY THE MAIN IDEA
One species of fish has a strange appetite. These fish, known as
glanis, catch and eat large birds swimming on the surface of the
water. Gulls, geese, and ducks are sometimes found in their
stomachs. It seems difficult to believe, doesn’t it? Most often
we think of birds eating fish. Turnabout is fair play, says the
glanis.
The story is mainly about:
a. What most fish eat
b. Why birds eat fish
c. How big the glanis are
d. What the glanis eat
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28. IDENTIFY THE MAIN IDEA
Birds rarely sing while on the ground. They give calls and
chirps while flying or perched on a bush, fence post, or
branch of a tree. If birds sang while on the ground, they
would be telling cats and other enemies their location. What
bird would want to be on the ground when an enemy comes
near?
This paragraph is mainly about:
a. Why birds chirp
b. What lives on the ground
c. When and where birds usually give their calls
d. Why birds like trees
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29. British women like to own different kinds of
hats. Back in the year 1500, women liked to
_(1)_ many pairs of gloves. Queen Elizabeth
owned about 1,000 ___ (2)___
Choose the right word:
(1) own, fancy, swim, smile
(2) cats, pairs, servants, ships
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30. For years people thought the giraffe could
not make a sound. One day a zoo keeper
overheard a soft mooing. The giraffe, he
said, makes a ___(1)__ like a ___(2)__.
Choose the right word:
(1) good pet, funny face, sudden wink,
sound
(2) pig, cow, mouse, bird
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31. CONTEXT CLUES
The slimy snail is an amazing little fellow.
The leathery skin of its foot is so __(1)__
that it can climb over the __(2)__ of a
razor blade without injury.
(1)beautiful, tough, red, soft
(2) edge, side, handle, corner
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32. CONTEXT CLUES
The bottle tree grows in Australia. The
trunk of the tree is shaped like a bottle.
The branches look like flowers sticking
out of a __(1)__. People always __(2)__
to look at this unusual tree.
(1)glass, pot, bottle, vase
(2)avoid, try, forget, stop
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33. CONTEXT CLUES
Why is February the shortest month of the
year? Some say Augustus Caesar, ruler of
Rome, __(1)__ a day from February and
added it to August. Augustus didn’t want
July, named after Julius Caesar, to be
__(2)__ than August.
(1) burst, punished, tested, stole
(2) shorter, faster, longer, weaker
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