WONDERS 5- ELA -2ND MIDTERM REVISION

​2nd MIDTERM REVISION -WONDERS 5

​Small Loan, Big Effect

A young woman in a small village in Nepal wanted to start a tailor shop to make and sell

clothes. She did not have enough money, however, to get started, and it was impossible for

her to obtain a loan from a big bank. Knowing she could never get the money from them,

she applied for a microloan.

A microloan is a loan of a small amount of money to a person or group. Some microloans are made by banks or large organizations, while others are made by individuals. Microloans can go a long way in changing people's lives for the better. For example, with a

With a little loan of 25 dollars, the tailor in Nepal can buy the material needed to make her clothing. She can sell the clothes and make enough money to buy more material and evem make enough to buy a sewing machine to make even more clothes. Then her business can really take off!

Microloans are made to people in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America, who don’t have access to banks. The loans are becoming increasingly popular.

The World Bank believes that 160 million people around the world are now benefiting from microloans. Not all of these loans are used to start businesses. Some help families send their children to school or allow them to take classes to learn new skills. Others help farmers pay for seed so that their harvests will be bigger and earn the farmers more money.

For some people, the loans have a great effect. A carpenter in Afghanistan named Behnam received a $465 microloan. He used it to expand his carpentry business and eventually, he is able to provide more and better food and clothing for his four children. Lucas, living in Mozambique, used microloans to buy chickens and to irrigate his farmland. Now he can employ four people and send his children to school. Beatrice, living in Kenya, started with a microloan of less than 40 dollars. She used the money to buy vegetables, which she sold at local markets.

Microloans often help both the people in a community and the person who receives them. the loan. When a person’s business does well, it brings money into a community. This makes a noticeable difference and helps other businesses sell or do more. Often, people who get microloans will repeatedly apply for loans to improve their businesses, which may, in turn, help the community even more.

What about paying these loans back? The people who receive microloans are often very poor. Are they less likely to pay back the loan? Surprisingly, over ninety-seven percent of microloans are paid back! So, microloans are a very good way of helping people help themselves and doing it with little risk.

What about paying these loans back? The people who receive microloans are often very poor. Are they less likely to pay back the loan? Surprisingly, over ninety-seven percent of microloans are paid back! So, microloans are a very good way of helping people help themselves and doing it with little risk.

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What was the first option that came to the woman's mind?

• Ask for a loan from a bank

• Ask for a microloan

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What kind of business did the young woman in a small village in Nepal want to start?

• tailor shop

• shoes stores

• convience store

• restaurant

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I watched as the potter _____ a vase out of clay.

• devised

• cultivated

• fashioned

• civilized

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A microloan is a loan of a small amount of money to a person or group. Who can sponsor the microloan? ( Choose all the correct options)

• Banks

• large organizations

• individuals

• schools

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How much does the woman need to buy the material needed to make her clothes and sell them to make more money?

• 25$

• 250$

• 2500$

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What kind of people can obtain the microloan?

• Only individuals with high income
• Only large corporations
• Only people with perfect credit history
• Individuals or small business owners with low income or poor credit history

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According to The World Bank, how many people in the world might benefit from the microloan?

• 160 million people

• 60 million people

• 16 million people

• 61 million people

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Microloans are not for poor families who want to send their children to school.

• True

• False

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What is  Behnam's job?

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Who is from Afghanistan?

• Behnam

• Lucas

• Beatrice

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Who is from Kenya?

• Behnam

• Lucas

• Beatrice

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Most microloan borrowers are unable to repay their debts.

• True

• False

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An archaeologist is someone

Select answer

Listening

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1.How are waves created in the ocean?

• A)By fish swimming

• B) by energy passing through water

• C) By rain falling

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3.What do waves transmit across the ocean?

• A)Sand

• B)Energy

• C)Fish

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4. What do we usually see on the horizon when looking at the ocean?

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1. Wind-driven waves are primarily caused by the interaction between wind and surface water.

• True

• False

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 Surface waves are only found in lakes and not in the open ocean.

• True

• False

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Weather conditions such as hurricanes can produce potentially dangerous waves.

• True

• False

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Wind blowing across the ocean's surface causes a wave crest.

• True

• False

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Weather conditions have no impact on wind-driven waves.

• True

• False

Drag and Drop

An era is

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A type of animal

A period of time marked by certain characteristics

A type of food

A type of clothing

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_____ are people or things that cause pain.

• civilizations

• tormentors

• cultivate

• fashioned

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What are fragments?

• Fragments are incomplete sentences.
• Fragments are punctuation marks.
• Fragments are paragraphs.
• Fragments are complete sentences.

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Storm surge is caused by strong winds and pressure from severe storms.

• True

• Fasle

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Underwater disturbances like earthquakes and landslides are what cause tsunamis.

• True

• Fasle

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Storm surges and tsunamis crash down on the shore like regular waves.

• True

• Fasle

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Tsunamis can reach far distances inland.

• True

• Fasle

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Volcanic eruptions can produce dangerous waves.

• True

• Fasle

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1. What causes tides on Earth?

• A) Gravitational pull of the sun and moon

• B) Changes in the Earth's rotation

• C) Wind patterns

• D) Volcanic eruptions

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2. Which of the following is a common misconception about tidal waves?

• A) They are caused by tsunamis

• B) They are caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon

• C)They are another name for tsunamis

• D) They are related to tide information

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3. How are tsunamis different from tidal waves?

• A)Tsunamis are caused by wind patterns

• B)Tsunamis occur only during specific tidal states

• C)Tsunamis are related to tide information

• D)Tsunamis can occur in any tidal state

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A historian is someone who

• fixes cars
• studies and writes about the past
• cooks meals
• paints houses

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Intact means

• undamaged or unimpaired
• corrupted or spoiled
• incomplete or unfinished
• broken or damaged

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When an environment is well-preserved, it might_____

• decline
• thrive
• wither
• stagnate

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build or form (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed.

• reestablish
• break

• reconstruct

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small remaining quantity of something.

• remnant
• fragments

• intact

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What does the word posed mean?

• to move easily
• to walk
• to hold a position
• to move your hands

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What does the work inquisitive mean?

• enormous
• curious
• inexpensive
• serious

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Which word has almost the same meaning as the word seeps?

• wrinkles
• yawns
• blocks
• flows

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What does the word barren mean?

• able to use things
• capable of making new things
• using all of a particular thing
• unable to produce anything

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To have a strong effect on the mind or feeling?

• impress
• commenced
• posed
• wring

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The word expression means putting thoughts or feelings...

• in danger
• aside
• out in the open
• onto a piece of paper

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What does the word glaciers mean?

• tools used by doctors 
• small pieces of plastic
• large sheets of ice
• items used when cooking

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What are plumes?

• loud, scary noises
• big, fluffy feathers
• short, angry men  
• small, fast slides

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What does the word precise mean?

• exact
• approximate
• mild
• opposite

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What does the word meaningful mean?

• having a reason or purppose
• wanting answers 
• showing anger or frustartion
• needing explantion

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Which word has the opposite meaning of the word necessity?

• required
• optional
• impossible
• exciting

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Which of these lines uses alliteration?

• I have to run to the store.
• Alice the alligator asked for apples.
• The door slammed, BANG!
• The leaves fluttered like the wings of a bird.

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What does the word deeds mean?

• weeds
• movements
• discussions
• actions

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Which word meaning almost the same as meter?

• rhyme
• meaning
• rhythm
• length

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What does the word absorb mean?

• soak up or take something in
• keep something out or away
• make up or take something in 
• make create something

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What is the name of a grouping of lines in a poem?

• meter
• lyric
• alliteration
• stanza

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What does the word astounded mean?

• gruesome
• puzzled
• amazed
• worrisome

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Lyric poetry sounds like a what?

• song
• book
• conversation
• warning

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What does the word cycle mean?

• an event that causes another to occur
• the order of a series of events that happen one after another
• the way a specific event occurs from start to finish
• the result or consequence of a specific event

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What message does the poet of "Words Free as Confetti" want to give reader. 

• There are many languages in this world.
• Words are as varied as pieces of confetti.
• There are many words for colors.
• There are many words.

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What does the word wring mean?

• to sit and talk quielty
• to laugh and chat happily
• to twist or squeeze forcefully
• to jump and scream loudly

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What two things does the poet of "Dreams" compare in the first stanza?

• dreams and birds
• dreams and wings
• life without dreams and a bird that cannot fly
• life without dreams and dying birds

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What does the word conserve mean?

• endanger, threaten, or harm 
• provide, assist, or serve 
• protect from harm, loss, or change
• lose, destroy, or waste

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What two things does the poet of "Dreams" compare in the second stanza?

• life without dreams and a snowfall
• dreams and snow
• life without dreams and a frozen fields
• dreams and life

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Which word has the opposite meaning fo the word concealed?

• terrifying
• delightful
• hidden
• visible

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Why does the author use repetition in these lines?  I'll say, say, say you
            in English,
            in Spanish,
            I'll find you.

• for interest
• for rhythm
• to compare two things
• for emphasis

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This means to influence or have an effect on something

• absorb
• conserve
• circulates
• affect

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How are the two poems alike?

• They both focus on something that is meaningful.
• They both have a similar rhyming patter.
• They have a similar form.
• They both include examples of similes and metaphors.

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What does the word exaggeration mean?

• motion
• excess
• overstatement
• warning

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What does the word circulates mean?

• to move in a circular course back to the starting point
• to move from point to point
• to move from the beginning to an end point.
• to move in a pattern

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When used as a verb it means, to explain the meaning of something to translate between speakers of different languages.

• reconsider
• astounded
• interpret
• concealed

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According to the article, Earth can support life because it is the only planet with what?

• people
• liquid water
• an atmosphere
• water of any form

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Which words has the opposite meaning of the word commenced?

• stopped
• began
• commented
• questioned

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Which of the following contains the most water?

• rivers
• groundwater
• icecaps and glaciers
• freshwater lake

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What does the word reconsider mean?

• to act on something
• to think about again
• to talk about with others
• to want to do something

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What is the main idea of the article?

• There is only one well in the world.
• The amount of water on Earth has not ever changed.
• All water on Earth is connected.
• All of the wells in the world are connected underground.

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Which word has almost the same meaning as the word sauntered?

• skip
• run
• walk
• stroll

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Which of the following processes uses the most water?

• cleaning in homes
• flushing toilets and filling baths
• generating electricity in hydroelectric plants
• agriculture

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Which word has almost the same meaning as the word perplexed?

• confused
• assumed
• performed
• shared

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All of the following are reasons why water pollution is dangerous except which one?

• All water on Earth is connected
• It affects habitats around the world.
• It threatens the health of many animals.
• It causes the majority of sicknesses in the world.

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What does the word heroic mean?

• distinctive
• courageous
• meaningful
• specific

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What does the word suspicious mean?

• doubting you will win or be successful
• hoping nothing happens or goes wrong
• worrying that you have made a mistake or error
• believing that something is wrong or not right

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What did the President want Davy Crockett to do?

• learn how to dance
• climb Eagle Eye Peak
• pull the tail off Halley's Comet
• capture Halley's Comet

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Where does the story take place?

• on a playground
• Grandma J.'s house
• at an elementary school
• at a city council meeting 

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Why was Davy Crockett in the woods at the beginning of the story?

• He was hunting a bear
• He was hiding so the president could not find him
• He was trying to learn how to dance
• He was waiting for the comet to come so he could fight it

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What is the main problem in the story?

• City council wants to tear down Grandma J.'s house in order to build a playground.
• City council wants to build a playground, but they cannot find the right spot.
• Grandma J. wants to move, but she cannot sell her house.
• Jacob broke a window in Grandma J.'s cellar

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What did Davy Crockett do with the comet after he spun it around seventeen times?

• threw it back into space
• buried it in the ground
• drowned it in the Atlantic Ocean
• threw it into the center of Eagle Eye Peak

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What did the boys find when looking for a baseball?

• a cellar 
• a hidden bookcase
• a hidden room
• a concealed window

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At the end of the story, why did Davy Crockett start wearing a coonskin cap?

• He had no hair.
• He only had tufts of snarled hair.
• Sally Sugartree made it for him.
• He wanted to protect his head from future comets.

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What message does the author want to give the reader?

• Money is not everything
• Appearances are deceptive
• A fool and his money will soon part
• One man's trash is another man's treasure.

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Why did Davy Crockett not know about the comet?

• Sally Sugartree kept the information from him.
• He did not listen to the President.
• He was in a different country.
• He did not read newspapers.

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Why was Grandma J.'s house made a historic monument?

• Grandma J.'s family had lived in it for many years.
• It played a major role in the Civil War.
• It was over one hundred years old.
• It was thought to be a stop on the Underground Railroad.