ISIP Comprehension Practice

What is one result of volunteering?

• You help others without being too concerned about helping yourself.

• You can earn money while helping others.

• You can spend more time working at a computer and watching TV.

• You help others and help yourself at the same time.

Service to others is the payment you make for your space here on Earth.

What did the character mean by this statement?

• Volunteering is a required human service.

• Service to others is the only payment accepted for membership in a community.

• Membership in a community comes with responsibility.

• Membership in a community must be paid for by working at community centers.

An editor makes a book better by. . .

• suggesting changes and making corrections.

• telling the printer how to sell the book.

• changing the art on the book cover.

• stating exactly what the people want to hear.

The reader is important because. . .

• only the reader can tell the editor how to fix the story.

• the author tells the reader which books to read.

• only popular books are bought by readers.

• without readers, there would be no need for books.

According to the passage, insects are stronger than humans. How might a reader disagree with this "fact"?

• by pointing out that giant beetles are much bigger than other types of insects

• by showing that many insects are afraid of people

• by pointing out that humans will always be able to lift much more than insects

• by stating that it is difficult to find information about insects on the Internet

What is the effect of not getting a recess break?

• Kids' brains have trouble learning.

• Kids grow stronger and healthier.

• Kids spend less time on reading and math.

• Kids' social skills improve.

Why might some schools' leaders want to get rid of recess?

• Recess is not necessary for kids who play sports.

• Recess takes away from classroom time

• Recess causes behavior problems.

• Recess lowers kids' scores on tests.

What kind of sentence tells the main idea of a paragraph?

• supporting detail

• example sentence

• topic sentence

• transition sentence

What is a main idea?

• the central point of a piece of writing

• the most interesting detail in a book

• the information that supports the topic sentence

• the punctuation used in a paragraph

What does infer mean?

• use a dictionary to find the answer

• note what you know

• make a guess based on what you read

• play with your dog