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Quick Check 3 in English

From Tadpole to Frog

by Charles A. Schoenknecht

Spring has come. The frogs are at the pond. The mother frogs are laying their eggs. Mother frogs lay many eggs. Each egg is about the size of a match head.

In a few days a tadpole starts to grow inside each egg. A tadpole is a baby frog. Soon the tadpole starts to wiggle inside the egg.

In eight days the tadpole has grown big enough to break out of the egg. It swims off to start a new life.

The tadpole doesn't look at all like a frog. It looks more like a tiny fish. It even has gills on each side of its body, as fish do. The gills are used for breathing.

When it's very small, the tadpole stays close to some water plant. A little tadpole can't swim very fast. So it must hide from fish and other water animals that might try to eat it. As the tadpole gets older, its head gets bigger. It also loses its outside gills and grows new gills inside its body. Its tail gets bigger too. Now it can swim better and get more food.

Most of the time a tadpole eats algae. Algae are tiny green water plants. But sometimes a big tadpole will eat a smaller tadpole.

When the tadpole reaches its full size, it starts to change into a frog.

First its back legs get big. If the tadpole loses a toe at this time, it can grow a new toe. If it loses a leg, it can grow a new leg, It can even grow a new tail. It is now six to eight weeks old.

After the tadpole's back legs have grown big, its front legs get big. At about this time, the tadpole's mouth gets big and wide too. The tadpole loses its gills. It grows lungs. When it has lungs, the tadpole can leave the water. It can live on land.

The tadpole now looks like a frog, except for its tail. The tail starts to get smaller and smaller. And one day in late summer the tail is all gone.

The tadpole isn't a tadpole anymore. It's a frog.

Multiple Choice

Another good name for this story is ____________________.

• "Where Frogs Live"

• "How a Frog Grows Up"

• "What Tadpoles and Frogs Eat"

Multiple Choice

Neither a tadpole nor a fish ____________________.

• has gills

• has a tail

• has lungs

Multiple Choice

If tadpoles were born on land, ____________________.

• they couldn't live

• they would be safe

• they would learn to walk

Multiple Choice

A tadpole can't leave the water until ___________________.

• it can breathe air

• it grows gills

• c it loses its tail

Multiple Choice

If someone called you "knee-high to a tadpole," he or she would mean that you were ____________________.

• big

• small

• green

Multiple Choice

Identify what kind of verb is the underlined word.

Mr. Salvador does not like to shop around the mall.

• action verb

• linking verb

• helping verb

Multiple Choice

Identify what kind of verb is the underlined word.

Nick together with his brother goes to the park every afternoon.

• action verb

• linking verb

• helping verb

Multiple Choice

Identify what kind of verb is the underlined word.

Today is the final game between the two competing schools.

• action verb

• linking verb

• helping verb

Open Ended

Use the given word to construct a meaningful sentence using the given tense of the verb.

simple present

students/study

Open Ended

Use the given word to construct a meaningful sentence using the given tense of the verb.

simple past

Nicole and Tyrone/clean