G2 English Practice Test 2 - Reading

Sasha’s family put the tent up. Which other thing did they do? Choose one.

• Played tennis

• Cooked burgers

• Played football

• Went to the beach

Look at this sentence. Choose two words which describe how the children buried their father in the sand: They quietly dug into the soft, wet sand and carefully covered their sleeping father with it.  

• quietly

• dug

• soft

• carefully

• sleeping

What else did the mother do, apart from putting up the tent? Choose one.

• Got buried in the sand

• Read a book

• Paddled in the sea

• Made a fire

Mum came down to the beach too but she only wanted to paddle.

What did this sentence, and the picture, tell you about mum? Choose one.

• She loved swimming

• She was a little scared of the waves

• She didn’t have time to swim

• She had forgotten her swimsuit

Crash! The wave nearly knocked mum over!

What does the word ‘nearly’ tell us about what happened?

• The wave definitely knocked her over

• The wave splashed over her

• The wave almost knocked her down

• The wave knocked her over hard

Why was Sasha happy about bedtime?

• She was tired

• She wanted to have good dreams

• She was looking forward to being in her sleeping bag

• She wanted to read in bed

Why does the writer use exclamation marks in this diary?

To show that Sasha was…

• Angry

• Hungry

• Excited

• Shouting

Why did mum and dad have a “hard time” putting up the tent?

• It was too big

• The instructions were written too small

• It was raining heavily

• It was night time

We were a bit sad when it was time to pack the tent away.

What was making the family sad?

• The weather was bad

• The children had been arguing

• They didn’t know how to fold up the tent

• They wanted to camp longer

Choose one word from this sentence which showed that Sasha was enjoying the sound of the sea.

I can hear the sea making a lovely swishing, swooshing sound.