READING COMPREHENSION

READING

COMPREHENSION

​for

GRADES 4 to 6

Multiple Choice

Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.
 What is the main idea?

• Soccer is important at the Olympics.
• Soccer is a worldwide sport.
• Soccer is also called football.
• Soccer is played by men and women.

Multiple Choice

Do you enjoy kites?  If you order right away, we will give you directions for making kites out of all kinds of materials-sticks, straws, socks, and more.  All of this for only Php50.00.  Hurry!  Time is limited.  What is this ad trying to get the reader to do?

• Buy information about sticks and straws.

• Buy information about sock puppets.
• Buy information about kite making.
• Buy a read-to-fly kite.

Multiple Choice

Do you want to work while you're a student?  If you are younger than 16, some states may limit what you can do.  Some state laws say that you can work only after school hours.  Also, you cannot work at dangerous jobs such as mining.  Most states won't let students under 14 hold regular jobs.  This paragraph mainly tells:

• which jobs are dangerous
• why school is more important than work          
• about state laws
• about some state laws that affect working students

Multiple Choice

Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!

What is the paragraph mostly about?

• how long you might expect to live

• about the health of females

• why people live to be 70

• about people born after 1985

Multiple Choice

Two young people set up an amazing domino tumble.  They used more than a quarter of a million dominoes.  They worked five weeks to arrange the little blocks in long rows, circles, and other patterns.  It took almost an hour for all the dominoes to fall.  But there were some fancy tricks in this clever show.  The dominoes pushed eggs into hot frying pans and even set off rockets!  This paragraph mainly tells:

• how to play dominoes for five weeks
• how a special domino tumble was made
• how to make patterns with dominoes
• how to fry eggs and shoot rockets