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WorksheetsYang the Third and Her Impossible Family
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Vocabulary- I would never have won the singing award if my _________ had not played so well.
audition
accompanist
sonata
grimaced
Vocabulary- Do you plan to _________ for the lead role in the play?
sonata
audition
simultaneously
tread
Vocabulary- Can you juggle three balls___________?
grimaced
authority
simultaneously
accompanist
Vocabulary- During last evening's concert, the orchestra played a Mozart __________ beautifully.
commotion
audition
compose
sonata
Vocabulary- The singer requested piano music as their _____________.
accompaniment
souvenir
audition
enrollment
Vocabulary- Frank _______________ when he heard the teacher's nail scrape on the chalkboard.
exhausted
simultaneously
glowed
grimaced
This selection is most like ______.
a poem
realistic fiction
historical fiction
a biography
What is Holly's problem?
Holly's mother cannot drive her to the rehearsal.
Her accompanist is sick.
Mary can't play the cello.
Holly hasn't practiced enough.
To help Holly, Mary suggests that __________.
she play her cello to accompany Holly.
Mrs. Hanson be the accompanist.
her mother accompany Holly.
Holly can practice every day at her house.
Who is telling the story?
Mrs. Hanson
Holly
Kim
Mary
Unlike Holly, Mary feels that being in the Junior Chamber Orchestra would be ___________.
boring
wonderful
time-consuming
expensive
What is more important to Holly than getting into the Junior Chamber Orchestra?
raising purebred dogs
going to camp
being in a play
practicing with friends
Mary hopes that if her mother plays the piano for Holly, the Hansons will show her mother more _______.
respect
style
authority
commotion
Mrs. Sylvester thinks cats are ___________.
friendly animals
nicer than her dog
noisier than dogs
stuck up
"To walk across the room, you had to negotiate carefully between piles." In this story, negotiate means to _______.
talk about something to get an agreement
travel successfully
jump from place to place
look at, from a distance
When Holly practices with Mrs. Yang, everyone can see that Holly _______.
loves to play her viola
will win a place in the orchestra
doesn't have her heart in playing
is thinking about dogs
Mrs. Yang keeps saying that she is not really very good because ___________.
she plays without feeling
she makes several mistakes
the piano needs tuning
it is rude for a Chinese person to agree with a compliment
Mary speaks up when Mrs. Hanson and Holly laugh at her family because _________.
she thinks that they are making fun of her family
she thinks that they should be ashamed of their laughing
they are wrong about her mother's playing
Holly probably makes mistakes when she is playing too.
Mrs. Hanson suddenly begins to laugh and sing "Yes! We Have no bananas!" when ________.
she walked into the kitchen
she realized that the Yangs are really agreeing with her
she always sings that song
she wanted someone to get bananas
Mary is ashamed because her family doesn't try harder to learn American ways. what does she learn about this attitude by the end of the story?
she was right and her family is rude to others
that she should try to keep her culture too
that she still makes mistakes too and her mother doesn't have many opportunities to meet Americans
that American ways are too difficult for her family to learn
