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Beautiful Butterflies
     Have you ever just watched a butterfly float around, its wings gracefully fluttering?  The butterfly's beauty and amazing transformation seem to capture our imagination and make us wonder at this amazing little insect.  A butterfly begins its life cycle as a caterpillar, a long, worm-like creature covered with tiny, spine-like hairs and a patter of stripes of patches.  The caterpillar sheds its skin four or more times before creating a cocoon around itself.  During this stage, we call the creature a chrysalis.  Inside the cocoon, the caterpillar's body tissues break down and new parts are formed. Finally, the transformation is complete, and a beautiful butterfly comes out! The adult butterfly finds a mate and lays eggs on leaves and stems. Often, the butterfly migrates, or travels to a new location, to lay its eggs.  This little eggs will soon hatch, and new little caterpillars will begin the cycle again.
What is the main idea of this passage?

• what butterflies eat
• the life cycle of a butterfly
• how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly

Beautiful Butterflies
     Have you ever just watched a butterfly float around, its wings gracefully fluttering?  The butterfly's beauty and amazing transformation seem to capture our imagination and make us wonder at this amazing little insect.  A butterfly begins its life cycle as a caterpillar, a long, worm-like creature covered with tiny, spine-like hairs and a patter of stripes of patches.  The caterpillar sheds its skin four or more times before creating a cocoon around itself.  During this stage, we call the creature a chrysalis.  Inside the cocoon, the caterpillar's body tissues break down and new parts are formed. Finally, the transformation is complete, and a beautiful butterfly comes out! The adult butterfly finds a mate and lays eggs on leaves and stems. Often, the butterfly migrates, or travels to a new location, to lay its eggs.  This little eggs will soon hatch, and new little caterpillars will begin the cycle again.
What happens inside the cocoon?

• The caterpillar lays eggs.
• The caterpillar sheds its skin four or more times.
• The caterpillar's body tissues break down and new parts are formed.

Beautiful Butterflies
     Have you ever just watched a butterfly float around, its wings gracefully fluttering?  The butterfly's beauty and amazing transformation seem to capture our imagination and make us wonder at this amazing little insect.  A butterfly begins its life cycle as a caterpillar, a long, worm-like creature covered with tiny, spine-like hairs and a patter of stripes of patches.  The caterpillar sheds its skin four or more times before creating a cocoon around itself.  During this stage, we call the creature a chrysalis.  Inside the cocoon, the caterpillar's body tissues break down and new parts are formed. Finally, the transformation is complete, and a beautiful butterfly comes out! The adult butterfly finds a mate and lays eggs on leaves and stems. Often, the butterfly migrates, or travels to a new location, to lay its eggs.  This little eggs will soon hatch, and new little caterpillars will begin the cycle again.
A butterfly begins its life cycle as ___________.

• a caterpillar
• a chrysalis
• an adult butterfly

The Postage Stamp
    Do you know where the idea for postage stamps came from?  In 1840, Great Britain created the first postage stamps, an idea thought up by a man named Sir Rowland Hill.  This stamps had the head of Queen Victoria printed on them and were called "Penny Blacks."  Before postage stamps were made, people took letters to the post office and just paid a fee to have them sent.  The postmaster would collect the money and write "paid" on the letters. The new stamps allowed people to mail their letters from public mailboxes that the British government set up all over the country.  They no longer had to make a special trip to the post office every time they wanted to mail a letter.  Today, every country in the world has its own stamps, with the country's name printed on them.  Great Britain is the only country that does not print its name on its stamps!
What is the main idea of this passage?

• how letters are mailed
• how much postage stamps cost
• where postage stamps came from

The Postage Stamp
    Do you know where the idea for postage stamps came from?  In 1840, Great Britain created the first postage stamps, an idea thought up by a man named Sir Rowland Hill.  This stamps had the head of Queen Victoria printed on them and were called "Penny Blacks."  Before postage stamps were made, people took letters to the post office and just paid a fee to have them sent.  The postmaster would collect the money and write "paid" on the letters. The new stamps allowed people to mail their letters from public mailboxes that the British government set up all over the country.  They no longer had to make a special trip to the post office every time they wanted to mail a letter.  Today, every country in the world has its own stamps, with the country's name printed on them.  Great Britain is the only country that does not print its name on its stamps!
Great Britain is the only country that does not print ____________ on its stamps.

• a picture of a famous building in the country
• its name
• artwork

The Postage Stamp
    Do you know where the idea for postage stamps came from?  In 1840, Great Britain created the first postage stamps, an idea thought up by a man named Sir Rowland Hill.  This stamps had the head of Queen Victoria printed on them and were called "Penny Blacks."  Before postage stamps were made, people took letters to the post office and just paid a fee to have them sent.  The postmaster would collect the money and write "paid" on the letters. The new stamps allowed people to mail their letters from public mailboxes that the British government set up all over the country.  They no longer had to make a special trip to the post office every time they wanted to mail a letter.  Today, every country in the world has its own stamps, with the country's name printed on them.  Great Britain is the only country that does not print its name on its stamps!
Before postage stamps were made, ___________.

• People took their letters to the post office and paid to have them mailed.
• People delivered their letters themselves.
• People did not have to pay to have their letters delivered.

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I am out of words to say...I am ____________.

• spechless
• speechless
• speakless
• speechlesse

The giant was upset when he awoke from his _____________.

• slumber
• slember
• slomber
• slumbere

You must have __________ to face your fears.

• corage
• curage
• courage
• courag

A ________________ is an area that you live in.

• regon
• region
• reigin
• regin