Reading Passage with Questions

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Then fill in the answer on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passages

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Read the next two selections. Then choose the best answer to each question.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Use “Peace and Quiet” (pp. 15–17) to answer questions 14–19. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

What should you do first when you have a reading passage question?

• Guess the answer

• Read the passage carefully

• Ask a friend for help

• Look at the pictures

How can you find the main idea of a passage easily?

• Only read the first sentence

• Look for repeated ideas

• Skip to the end

• Focus on the pictures

How can you remember important details from a passage?

• Read it once quickly

• Highlight or underline key points

• Only read the title

• Focus on the pictures

What should you do if you find a word you don't know in a passage?

• Skip it

• Use the words around it to guess the meaning

• Ignore the whole paragraph

• Ask someone else

What is a simple way to check if your answer to a reading question is correct?

• Assume it's right

• Read the part of the passage again

• Change your answer randomly

• Ask a classmate

Use “Peace and Quiet” and “Maple Street” to answer questions 24–27. Then fill in the answers on your answer document.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage

Read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. Then fill in the answer on your answer document. Catalina and her father, who she calls Papá, live near the Cerro Tololo observatory located on the top of two mountains near La Serena, Chile. The observatory is home to a group of very large and powerful telescopes. Because the instruments on the telescopes are so delicate, the telescopes are kept in dome structures for protection.

• Reading Passage

• Paired Passage

• Editing Passage

• Revising Passage