English Enrichment test week 2 term 3 2023

You see snowflakes coming down outside and you can smell hot cocoa cooking on the stove. You see red and green decorations all around the house. What time of year can you infer that it is?

• Thanksgiving

• Valentine's Day

• Christmas

• Fourth of July

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“You don’t know what you’re missing,” Jimesha shouted into the phone over the loud music of the party.“Nah, I’m too tired,” Amber said.“Well, suit yourself, but you’ll be sorry,” Jimesha replied.

What is happening?

• Jimesha is at a party and wants Amber to be there

• Amber is at a party and Jimesha is too tired to join
• Jimesha and Amber are both at the party
• Jimesha and Amber are arguing over the phone

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Terrence is camping alone. It is dry and windy out. He falls asleep in his sleeping bag near the blazing campfire. What is the BEST inference you could make?

• Terrence will wake up refreshed after a good night's sleep
• Terrence will be attacked by wild animals
• Terrence's campfire could potentially cause a wildfire
• Terrence will be abducted by aliens

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Sarah looked on as her father guided the mules across the river. He looked tense, but the mules calmly pulled the wagon through the neck-high water. Afterward, Sarah asked, "Why were you so tense, Father? The team did so well."

Her father replied, "The mules stayed calm because they've crossed many rivers before, my child, but, that was my first time leading a team".

• Sarah will be asked to lead the team at the next river crossing.

• Sarah's father will be less tense at the next crossing.

• The oxen will panic at the next river crossing.

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JoHanna had saved enough money to purchase one expensive saltwater fish, but the pet shop owner said that a single fish would get lonely. JoHanna didn't like the sound of that. She then saw some freshwater fish that were almost as pretty as the saltwater ones. The freshwater fish cost less, too.

What prediction can you make based on this passage?

• JoHanna will let the shop owner buy puppies instead.

• JoHanna will buy several several fish from the shop.

• JoHanna will buy one saltwater fish from the pet shop.

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Jamal was bored and headed up to his room early. Knowing the weather report had called for a chance of snow, he played his Game Boy and chatted with friends on social media instead of doing his homework and studying for his big math test. A while later Mrs. Brown was waking her son. "Jamal, you have a two-hour delay, so I let you sleep in this morning. Get ready. You have just enough time to eat breakfast and catch the bus."

"What?" Jamal sat upright and exclaimed. "School! Today?"

What prediction can you make based on this passage?

• Mrs. Brown will be angry with Jamal.

• Jamal will face the math test unprepared.

• Jamal will fall asleep again and miss the bus.

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Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. Today explorers still carry and eat this food.

What is the passage mostly about?

• who uses pemmican today

• what can be put into pemmican

• how pemmican was prepared by Native Americans.

• why people eat pemmican today

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Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!

What is the paragraph mostly about?

• how long you might expect to live

• about the health of females

• why people live to be 70

• tells that people live to be 100

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When we think of seaweed, we usually picture brown or green plants a foot or so in length. Seaweeds are also of other colors. Some are red. Some kinds grow to lengths of a hundred feet! These form giant seaweed forests, where many kinds of fish take shelter. What is the main idea?

• Why some seaweed grows so large

• What seaweed is like

• Why seaweed is red

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What is the first sentence of a paragraph called?

• The introduction sentence

• The topic sentence

• The first sentence