📖 Reading Comprehension
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Black Beauty
As for me, I was so astonished that I did not at first see what was going on by the brook; but when I did look there was a sad sight; two fine horse…
Little Women
"Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. John was request…
The Secret Garden
Read the following passage carefully:
"Mistress Mary did not mean to put out her hand and clutch his sleeve but she did it. "I've stolen a garden…
Treasure Island
All at once there began to go a sort of bustle among the bulrushes; a wild duck flew up with a quack, another followed, and soon over the whole surf…
Treasure Island
“Well now, look here, I’ll answer these four p’ints; one after another I’ll answer ’em. I made a hash o’ this cruise, did I? Well now, you all know…
The Secret Garden
Based on the final paragraph of the supplied extract:
At first the robin watched Mary and Colin with sharp anxiety. For some mysterious reason he k…
Treasure Island
Read the extract carefully and then answer the question:
"This fifth trip was quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the littl…
Little Women
Read the following extract and answer the question below:
"On Christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat…
Anne Of Green Gables
"I was thinking the loveliest story about you and me, Diana. I thought you were desperately ill with smallpox and everybody deserted you, but I went…
Little Women
If Jo had not been otherwise engaged, Laurie’s behavior would have amused her, for a faint twinge, not of jealousy, but something like suspicion, ca…
Anne Of Green Gables
Anne flew to the door, face alight, eyes glowing. On the very threshold she stopped short, wheeled about, came back and sat down by the table, light…
The Secret Garden
Read the following extract carefully before answering the question:
The horses were climbing up a hilly piece of road when she first caught sight o…
Little Women
This exercise requires you to draw inferences about character traits and the challenges of early married life by examining contrasts in behaviour. Rea…
Treasure Island
Long John Silver is described as having his “Every thought of his soul... set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money.” However, when the treasure i…
Anne Of Green Gables
Consider Anne's long speech, which reveals a mix of feelings about Green Gables:
'Oh, I don’t mean just the tree; of course it’s lovely—yes, it’s…
Anne Of Green Gables
All went merry as a marriage bell until Anne’s layer cake was passed. Mrs. Allan, having already been helped to a bewildering variety, declined it. B…
Anne Of Green Gables
"Well, I’m ready. What am I to say?” Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, “Now I lay me d…
The Wizard Of Oz
Analyze how the author uses dialogue in the conversation between Dorothy and the Scarecrow to introduce the character of the Scarecrow and advance the…
Little Women
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question below. Focus on gathering evidence from the text to form a clear picture of Professor Bha…
The Wizard Of Oz
Near the end of the extract, the Queen of the Field Mice makes a significant promise:
"If ever you need us again," she said, "come out into the fie…
Peter Pan
Read the following extract carefully:
"No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates. To the boys there was at least some glamour…
Anne Of Green Gables
Josie’s triumph being rather more pronounced than good taste permitted, Anne Shirley dared her to walk along the top of the board fence which bounde…
Little Women
"Come in!" and Mr. Laurence’s gruff voice sounded gruffer than ever, as Jo tapped at his door.
“It’s only me, Sir, come to return a book,” she s…
Little Women
Read the following extract carefully.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men…
Little Women
One night when Beth looked among the books upon her table, to find something to make her forget the mortal weariness that was almost as hard to bear…
The Call Of The Wild
Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among…
Black Beauty
So we went on, John chuckling all the way home; then he told James about it, who laughed and said, “Serve him right. I knew that boy at school; he to…
Black Beauty
“At last after a terrible struggle I threw him off backward. I heard him fall heavily on the turf, and without looking behind me, I galloped off to…
Black Beauty
“At last after a terrible struggle I threw him off backward. I heard him fall heavily on the turf, and without looking behind me, I galloped off to…
The Secret Garden
Mary speaks aloud to the portrait of a 'stiff, plain little girl' who is 'rather like herself'. What does this interaction, imagined or real, reveal a…
Little Women
That was the name of the little brown house Mr. Brooke had prepared for Meg’s first home. Laurie had christened it, saying it was highly appropriate…
Treasure Island
Read the following extract carefully, then answer the question below:
At first I had supposed 'the dead man’s chest' to be that identical big box o…
Black Beauty
On the morning before the election, Jerry was putting me into the shafts, when Dolly came into the yard sobbing and crying, with her little blue …
Black Beauty
Read the following extract carefully, then answer the question below:
"They were going out of the stable, when John stopped and said, “I had better…
The Wizard Of Oz
Read the following extract carefully:
But the wicked creature was very cunning, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wan…
Treasure Island
This exercise focuses on understanding character traits and effective leadership through the author's descriptions and characters' actions. Read the f…
Little Women
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question below. Pay attention to how the author uses descriptive language and comparisons.
Dear…
Black Beauty
"In the morning a smart-looking young man came for me. At first he looked pleased; but when he saw my knees he said in a disappointed voice:
“I…
Peter Pan
Read the following extract carefully and answer the question below:
His hand closed on the fatal draught. “No!” shrieked Tinker Bell, who had hea…
Little Women
Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go…
The Secret Garden
The following extract describes Mary Lennox's first impressions of the secret garden:
"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one c…
Treasure Island
Read the following extract carefully, then answer the question below:
Right in front of me, not half a mile away, I beheld the Hispaniola under sai…
Little Women
Read the following extract from 'Little Women', paying close attention to Amy's 'Last Will and Testiment' and the discussion surrounding it:
“Now I…
Black Beauty
Read the following extract carefully before answering the question:
As we came back through the park we met the Squire and Mrs. Gordon walkin…
Peter Pan
“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that…
The Secret Garden
Read the following extract carefully, then answer the question below:
The flower-bed was not quite bare. It was bare of flowers because the **peren…
Black Beauty
Read the following extract carefully:
"One day he and another gentleman took our cab; they stopped at a shop in R—— Street, and while his friend we…
Anne Of Green Gables
There were other changes in Anne no less real than the physical change. For one thing, she became much quieter. Perhaps she thought all the more and…
Little Women
Any young girl can imagine Amy’s state of mind when she ‘took the stage’ that night, leaning on Laurie’s arm. She knew she looked well, she loved to…
The Wizard Of Oz
Read the following passage carefully:
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fier…
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