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Living Through a Natural Disaster

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 10mins

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1.

Read the sentence: Extreme weather can be very dangerous, but when it is predicted, people can make preparations to lessen its damage.


What does the word preparations mean?

a)

rules

b)

plans

c)

buildings

d)

promises

2.

What is the base word of preparations?


Remember: A base word has no prefixes or suffixes.

a)

prepare

b)

prepared

c)

preparing

d)

preparations

3.

Read this sentence: Weather, predictable or not, is always with us.


What does the word predictable mean?

a)

rainy

b)

unusual

c)

expected

d)

comfortable

4.

If predict means to expect or say something that will happen in the future, then what does prediction mean?


Hint: Meteorologists do this for the weather.

a)

a storm

b)

an event

c)

a forecast

d)

an accident

5.

Read this sentence: The river then meanders eastward across the vast North China Plain before emptying into the Yellow Sea.


What does the word meanders mean?

a)

overflows

b)

curves (winds) gently

c)

goes straight

d)

rushes to the ocean

6.

What word could replace meanders if you wanted to say that the river turns sharply right and left?

a)

crawls

b)

sneaks

c)

zigzags

d)

thunders

7.

Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Choose the word to match the blank.


I have one _______ growing in the garden.

a)

flower

b)

flour

8.

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:


Sam was only ________ to play video games for 1 hour.

a)

aloud

b)

allowed

9.

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:


Mario needed 2 cups of ______ to make a cake.

a)

flower

b)

flour

10.

Choose the correct homophone for the sentence:


The children's faces turned _______ after they got scared.

a)

pale

b)

pail

11.

Read each sentence. Identify the homophones in each sentence. Type the words in the box.


The letter I sent came back because it needed one more cent of postage.

(a)  

12.

Read each sentence. Identify the homophones in each sentence. Type the words in the box.


When my aunt got a new cell phone, she tried to sell her old one online.

(a)