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Find out two correct answers from the options.

The young girl is working day and night to knit scarves to send as gifts for the soldiers. What a selfless person she is!

A selfless person-------------

• Is selfish

• Has no name

• Is too young to work

• giving to others without looking for personal gain.

• Cares more about others than herself

1) In the grand scheme of history, pants are new. They weren’t invented until about the 6th century BCE. Before that, people mostly wore tunics or dresses. It took a while to come up with the idea for pants.

What are the main ideas of this passage? You can select best two answers from the sentence clues.

• Pants were created in the 6th century BCE.

• People used to wear dresses or tunics.

• Pants are good and comfortable.

• Pants are a relatively new invention.

Select two words where the letter ''u'' has a different sound.

• Munch

• must

• music

• mud

• Mutual

Which of these two words do not rhyme with ‘lark’?

• Dark

• Park

• Scarf

• Mark

• Bald

Choose the word that best fills in the blank.

People liked the young president. His thick brown hair would never stay in place. This amused them. When he smiled, they smiled with him. He had a good mind. He said things in a quick, sure way. The President was (select your answer here).

• popular

• neat

• sad

• tall

• angry

Choose the best word to complete the following sentence.

The teacher asked me to ...(Select your answer here).... puppies to kittens, and write a paper showing how they are the same and how they are different.

• valuable

• disappointed

• compare

• recognize

• additional

Don't (Select your answer here)my football," Jim ordered.

• loose

• luse

• loze

• lose

• looze

All the sections in the restaurant are "non-smoking" because they ....(Select your answer here).... smoking in public places in the state of Florida.

• allow

• prohibit

• Compliment

• Choose

• Encourage

Choose the best word to fill in the blank.

I wash my hands. I scrub and scrub. For hours and hours they soak in the tub. I am getting my hands ....(Select your answer)..

• soft

• clean

• warm

• hot

Pedro will (select) his tenth birthday this year.

• contrast

• contract

• creature

• celebrate

• calling