The Journey: Stories of Migration Review

Read this sentence from the article.

There are few migrations as dramatic and frightening as when the
desert locusts are moving across Africa.

What does the author mean by the word dramatic in the sentence above?

• 1. easy

• 1. entertaining

• 1. exciting

• 1. exhausting

How does a locust look DIFFERENT from a grasshopper?

• 1. A locust turns black.

• 1. A locust turns green.

• 1. A locust turns dark yellow or red.

• 1. A locust turns bright orange or pink.

Read this sentence from the article.

Within minutes they will fly off again, leaving behind them a totally
devastated landscape.

What does the author mean by the word devastated in the sentence above?

• 1. beautiful

• 1. different

• 1. interesting

• 1. ruined

Read this sentence from the article.

The whales eat and eat and eat, straining the tiny food through strips
of baleen in their mouths.

What does the author mean by the word straining in the sentence above?

• 1. to swallow

• 1. to push violently

• 1. to stretch beyond the limit

• 1. to remove by passing through

What change should be made to the sentence below?

There are three knifes in the drawer.

• 1. change knifes to knives

• 1. change knifes to knifves

• 1. change knifes to knifeves

• 1. change knifes to knivees

What change should be made to the sentence below?

The shoemaker saw two elfves fixing the shoes.

• 1. change elfves to elfs

• 1. change elfves to elvs

• 1. change elfves to elves

• 1. change elfves to elfvees

Marigolds and lilacs are pretty but roses are ______.

• 1. prettier

• 1. pretty

• 1. most pretty

• 1. more pretty

Luke drives ______ on the busy highway than he does on the country
road.

• 1. more carefully

• 1. most carefully

• 1. more careful

• 1. most careful

What does the word migrate mean in the sentence below?

The geese migrate when they fly south for the winter.

• 1. learn to find their way

• 1. chatter to each other

• 1. move to a new place

• 1. stop often to swim

What does the word chilly mean in the sentence below?

Suki put on a sweater because she felt chilly.

• 1. afraid

• 1. cold

• 1. generous

• 1. lonely