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Comprehension 1

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Blood is a miracle liquid. It flows to every part of the body. Some blood cells carry food and oxygen to body organs. Other blood cells kill germs and help stop cuts from bleeding. People can die if they lose a lot of blood or if their blood cells get sick. Doctors sometimes give people fresh blood to save their lives. This paragraph mainly tells:

how many blood cells are made by the body

how important blood is

why people can die from loss of blood

why sick people are sometimes given blood

A bat can fly at night or even with its eyes closed. But if you cover its ears, it can't fly very well. Bats make sounds that people can't hear. The bats find their way by listening to these sounds as they echo off things. Bats even locate insects to eat by following the sounds that bounce off the bugs. People use their eyes, but bats use their ears to know where they're going. This paragraph mainly tells:

how bats use sound

what things bats often eat as food

how bats fly toward people

how people can hear the sounds of bats

Two young people set up an amazing domino tumble. They used more than a quarter of a million dominoes. They worked five weeks to arrange the little blocks in long rows, circles, and other patterns. It took almost an hour for all the dominoes to fall. But there were some fancy tricks in this clever show. The dominoes pushed eggs into hot frying pans and even set off rockets! This paragraph mainly tells:

how to play dominoes for five weeks

how a special domino tumble was made

how to make patterns with dominoes

how to fry eggs and shoot rockets

Have you ever heard of a flea market? It's a shopping place where people may find bargain prices. Many markets are held outdoors. There are all kinds of surprise goodies for sale. A flea market can be a real adventure! This paragraph mainly tells:

that many flea markets are held outdoors

how there are all kinds of surprise goodies

how a flea market can be dull

how a flea market is a place where people may find bargains

Dolphins are very smart animals. They even have their own language. They talk to each other with clicks, whistles, and grunts. Scientists have been studying this dolphin language. They hope that in the future, people and dolphins will be able to talk to each other. This paragraph mainly tells:

how dolphins talk to people

how smart dolphins are

how dolpins are different from fish

which scientists are studying languages

Which day do the classes end the earliest?

Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Read and answer the questions!

Water comes in three forms: liquid, solid, and gas.

Water can be a liquid. It flows. It has no shape of its own. A liquid takes the shape of its container.

Water can be a solid. Solids have their own shape. Water in its solid form is called ice.

Water can be a gas. Gas has no shape. Water in its gas form is called vapor.

What is this text mostly about?

Types of liquid

states of matter

forms of water

gas has no shape

Soaring over the city at an impressive 2,716 feet (828 meters) and boasting 200 stories (160 habitable), the $1.5 billion Burj Khalifa project was unveiled by Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in January 2010. At the peak of construction, more than 12,000 international workers were on site per day logging a collective 22 million man-hours during the six years it took to complete. The Burj Khalifa is twice the height of New York's Empire State Building and three times as tall as the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It even surpassed Taiwan's Taipei 101, which at 1,667 feet (508m) had held the world title since it opened in 2004.

Question: How many international workers were on site per day during the Burj Khalifa's construction? (Skill: scanning)

12000

2000

22000

Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.

What is the main idea?

Soccer is important at the Olympics.

Soccer is a worldwide sport.

Soccer is also called football.

Soccer is played by men and women.

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