Progress Check 2023 NonFiction

Look at the first paragraph (Lines 5-9).

Give one example of a passive verb form.

Look at the first paragraph (Lines 5-9).

How long did it take to build the Titanic?

• two years

• three years

• four years

• five years

Look at the first paragraph (Lines 5-9).

What does the writer compare the size of the Titanic to?

• a blue whale

• 2 track and fields

• 3 football fields

• 3 basketball courts

Look at the second paragraph.

What does the phrase: her maiden voyage mean?

• first trip

• luxurious trip

• expensive trip

• unknown trip

Look at the second paragraph.

How does the writer link the idea between the first and second paragraphs?
Choose two letters.

• A. The year 1912 is repeated

• B. Talked about the design

• C. Ideas are linked according by time

• D. Discussed the price

Look at the second paragraph.

Which group of passengers would have bought one-way tickets?

• people with no money

• poor people

• people who are on the run

• people who wanted to start a new life

Look at the third paragraph.

Give one abstract noun from the first sentence.

Look at the third paragraph.

What does elegant mean?

Look at the fourth paragraph.

The writer uses language that tells us something frightening suddenly

appeared. Which verb tells us this?

• loomed

• darkness

• vessel

• sink

The information in the final paragraph connects back to the second paragraph.

Choose two letters.

• A. The year (1912) used

• B. Ship's maiden voyage

• C. About the ship’s movements at sea

• D. (The ideas are linked) according to