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Test 020

Reading Practice: The First Snow

Reading Text

A small white snowflake lands on my coat sleeve. I look at it for one second. Then it is only a drop of water.

It is the first snow of winter. My sister and I go out into the yard. The snow is soft and clean. We can see our breath in the cold air.

We make a big snowman together. His eyes are two black stones. There is a short red scarf on his neck. My sister gives him a small hat.

After that we go home to get warm. Our boots are wet, so we leave them at the door. Mum makes hot chocolate for us. The cup is warm in my hands.

Dad takes a photo of the snowman. Now it is on our kitchen wall.

Comprehension Test

Question 1. What lands on the writer's coat sleeve?

✗ IncorrectNo leaf lands on the sleeve. The text says that a small white snowflake lands there.

✓ CorrectThe text begins: "A small white snowflake lands on my coat sleeve."

✗ IncorrectThe red scarf is on the snowman's neck later in the text, not on the writer's sleeve.

✗ IncorrectThe black stones are the snowman's eyes later in the story, so a stone does not land on the sleeve.

Question 2. What happens to the snowflake after one second?

✓ CorrectThe text says: "I look at it for one second. Then it is only a drop of water."

✗ IncorrectIt does not stay white on the sleeve. After one second it is only a drop of water.

✗ IncorrectThe snowflake stays on the sleeve and melts there. Nothing goes into a pocket in the text.

✗ IncorrectThe snowman and his hat come later. At the start the snowflake lands on the writer's coat sleeve.

Question 3. Where do the writer and the sister go?

✗ IncorrectThey come to the kitchen only later, after the snowman. First they go out into the yard.

✗ IncorrectThere is no shop in the story. The children go out into the yard near the house.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "My sister and I go out into the yard."

✗ IncorrectSchool is not in the text. The first snow comes and the children play in the yard.

Question 4. What can the children see in the cold air?

✗ IncorrectThere is no cloud in the text. The children see something much nearer to them.

✗ IncorrectNo bird is in the story. In the cold air they can see their breath.

✗ IncorrectThe roof is not in the text. The children see their own breath in the cold air.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "We can see our breath in the cold air."

Question 5. What are the snowman's eyes?

✗ IncorrectThe stones are black, not white. Black stones look like eyes in the white snow.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "His eyes are two black stones."

✗ IncorrectThe cup comes later, at home, and it is in the writer's hands. The snowman's eyes are stones.

✗ IncorrectThe snowman gets one small hat on his head. His eyes are two black stones.

Question 6. What does the sister give to the snowman?

✗ IncorrectNobody puts a coat on the snowman. The sister gives him a small hat.

✗ IncorrectThe black stones are already the snowman's eyes. The sister gives him something for his head.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "My sister gives him a small hat."

✗ IncorrectDad takes a photo later, and the photo is not a present for the snowman.

Question 7. Why do the children leave their boots at the door?

✓ CorrectThe text says: "Our boots are wet, so we leave them at the door."

✗ IncorrectThe text says nothing about new boots. The problem is the wet snow on them.

✗ IncorrectThe door is only the place for the boots. The reason is that the boots are wet.

✗ IncorrectMum makes hot chocolate for the children. She does not ask for their boots.

Question 8. What does Mum make for the children?

✗ IncorrectThere is no cake in this story. Mum makes a hot drink for the children.

✗ IncorrectThe drink is hot, not cold. The children come home from the cold yard.

✗ IncorrectSoup is not in the text. Mum makes hot chocolate, and the cup is warm in the hands.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "Mum makes hot chocolate for us."

Question 9. What is true about the cup of hot chocolate?

✗ IncorrectThe text says the cup is warm in the hands, so it is not cold.

✗ IncorrectThe photo is on the kitchen wall. The cup is in the writer's hands.

✓ CorrectThe text says: "The cup is warm in my hands."

✗ IncorrectThe hot chocolate is for the children at home. The snowman stays in the yard.

Question 10. Where is the photo of the snowman now?

✗ IncorrectDad takes the photo, but the text does not put it in a bag. It hangs on the kitchen wall.

✓ CorrectThe text ends: "Now it is on our kitchen wall."

✗ IncorrectThe snowman is in the yard, but the photo of him is at home on the kitchen wall.

✗ IncorrectAt the door there are only the wet boots. The photo is on the kitchen wall.
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