Reading Comprehension Practice

What is the theme of this story?  

• Eat your vegetables.

• Don't brag. Be modest. 

• Don't talk to strangers. 

• Necessity is the mother of invention.

What is the theme of this story? 

• Don't be lazy.

• Have as much fun as you can before you die.

• Don't steal.

• Look before you leap.

What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.

• Floods cause mudslides.

• Floods damage houses and roads. 

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.
The Summary of this passage is:

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

•  Jill loves Mexican food.

• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

•  Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

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

Mr. Gonzalez's class was worried. The polar bears at the zoo were acting nervous. The oldest bear was swimming all the time. He never rested!
The zookeeper told the kids the problem was noise. The bear reserve was near the highway. The bears heard cars go by. Drivers blew their horns. What could be done?
The class wrote letters to the mayor. The mayor suggested lowering the speed limit for the cars. She also said she could post signs that said, “NO HONKING! It disturbs the bears.” The signs went up and the speed limit was lowered.
The class noticed right away that the bears were napping more. They felt they had made a change using their government.

What was causing the bears to be nervous?

• Swimming

• Noise

• Napping

• The class

The Great Library of Alexandria, in Egypt, was a public library. In ancient times, people called it a wonder.
The books were not like our books. They were scrolls. They were made of paper. They were round like a tube. The library had many thousands of scrolls.
The library wanted as many books as it could get. Kings would write to other kings. They would ask for books. Sometimes they didn’t return them.
Books were bought. Sometimes the librarians stole books for the library.
Sadly, the library burnt down. But it was a model for libraries we know today. It was the first great library.

Which statement is a fact from the passage?

• The library had many thousands of scrolls.

• Scrolls were better than our books.

• The library was not liked in ancient times.

• Kings were also librarians back then.

My family went to an all you can eat buffet at lunch time. My brother filled his plate three times and didnt leave a single crumb. I dont understand how he can gorge himself but never gain any weight.
What does the word gorge mean in the sentence?

• a narrow valley

• a mountain

• beautiful

• to eat greedily

Which supporting detail would go with the main idea below?
Hibernation helps animals survive during the winter.

• Birds will watch its mother to learn how to build a nest and where it is safe to do so

• Their limbs are paddle-like, allowing them to swim away from predators quickly

• Some turtles even have abilities to reach their head all the way back to their tails to bite which is a form of protection.

• Throughout this period of time, the animals’ bodies live off of this stored fat.

Read the story. Then, answer the question. Steve and his sister were playing. They were playing in the yard. A bird landed on the fence. They watched the bird fly to the ground. It picked up some grass. Then, it flew to a tree. Steve said the bird was making a nest. Where did the bird land?

• on the fence

• on the roof

• under the tree

• on the car