The song soared above the rest of the songs on the Top Music Charts.

The class assembled in front of the flag pole to say the national anthem.

The bridge swayed back and forth in the wind.

The lighthouse keeper dozed off when he should have been watching the light.

The little boy squirmed and would not sit still for the photograph.

The brown couch had a giant rip in it and had to be returned.

The television anchor gave the evening news report without messing up.

The tough task was filled with inherent danger.

The counterfeit money was not accepted at the retailer.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. A neurosurgeon, a doctor specializing in the nervous system, in Toronto, Canada, has warned that playfully tossing an infant up in the air may cause brain damage if done repeatedly. He said many parents do not know excessive shaking could be dangerous to a baby’s soft skull, undeveloped brain and weak neck muscles.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. Some big factories pour toxic waste into water, killing fish and endangering the water for drinking. Off-shore oil drilling is harming life in the sea. Careless people who drop litter make public parks into dumps. Burning garbage turns the air foul for miles around. Junkyards, full of used, useless cars, can be found in large numbers throughout the countryside. Yes, signs of destruction of living space can be found everywhere.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. Africa, not Asia, can be considered to be the world's most serious population problem now. The continent contains 472 million people, of which some 150 million are facing extreme food shortages. One nation, Kenya, now has the world's highest rate of national increase (birth minus deaths) at 3.9 a year. At the rate, population doubles in 18 years.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. An earlier theory said that the dinosaurs died because the earth had become colder. The dinosaurs could not eat enough to keep their bodies warm and had no fur or feathers to keep the heat in. There were both dinosaurs which were plant-eaters and meat-eaters. When the plant-eaters died out, the meat-eaters grew short of food and died.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. Pregnant women who smoke cigarettes or drink lots of coffee give birth to smaller babies, according to a report shown in Bonn. The study also showed that drinking too much alcohol tends to shorten the pregnancy term and that there is a greater danger of deformed children if the father is a chain smoker.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. The Sahara Desert is located in the northern part of Africa. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, covering one fourth of the continent. If you wanted to hide the entire continental United States, you could bury it under the Sahara. Only a small part of the Florida Peninsula or the southern tip of Texas would stick out. Should you decide to walk the length of Sahara at a rate of eight kilometers a day, it would take you almost two and a half years!

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. Fins are a great help in swimming. A fish pushes itself forward by moving its tail and tail fin from side to side. Its other fins help it keep its balance. They also help guide it.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. Kota Bharu has numerous modern hotels most of which are situated right in the heart of town. Hotel rates vary, depending on the hotel you choose, but the average range of charges is from M $$5(US$$ 2) to M $$40(US$$ 16). Some hotels provide TV sets in their rooms apart from other conveniences.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. The largest telescope is at the Mt. Palomer Observatory in California. It uses a mirror that is 200 inches in a diameter. The glass mirror in this telescope gathers as much light as 250 million eyes can. This telescope is used to photograph stars a million times dimmer than the ones we can see with our eyes. It can see things in space that are two or three billion light years away.

Part II — Direction: Choose the best Main Idea of each paragraph. People used to think daisies were magic in many other ways, too. Some thought it was lucky to step on the first daisy they saw in the spring. Other believed that if daisies were floated in milk given to a puppy, the puppy would grow into a small, not a large, dog!

What is the reading mainly about?

When did the scientists first tell people to leave Mount Merapi?

In line 4, the word they means ______.

How many subheadings in the passage?

The purpose of the third paragraph is to tell us ______.

Strategy: Sequencing. Choose the event that happened first in the sequence about Mount Merapi. A

Strategy: Sequencing. Choose the event that happened second in the sequence about Mount Merapi. B

Strategy: Sequencing. Choose the event that happened third in the sequence about Mount Merapi. C

Strategy: Sequencing. Choose the event that happened fourth in the sequence about Mount Merapi. D

Strategy: Sequencing. Choose the event that happened last in the sequence about Mount Merapi. E

Inside the Earth, there is hot _____________ . 

Sometimes volcanoes ______ and magma comes out.

When magma comes out of a volcano, the magma is called ______.

Also, when a volcano erupts, ______ goes into the air.

Why grizzly stand in the river?

Grab (line 6) has the same meaning as ______.

Looked after (line 11) has the same meaning as ______.

On line 9, who is he?

Which word describes Meng Chiang-nu’s trip to the Great Wall?

What made part of the wall fall down?

On line 19, what does shouted mean?

It is know to the Chinese people as the Long Wall of ______.

China’s first emperor, ______ brought together many of original wall pieces into one wall.

At first, the wall was built of stone, wood, grass, and ______.

Every year, about ______ tourists visit China’s Great Wall.