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PRE-TEST
Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the corresponding questions.
Encircle only the letter of the correct answer.

The Frogs & the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily

into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud.
The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and
sisters what had become of him.
"A great big monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother
with one of his huge feet!"
"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big
as this?"
"Oh, much bigger!" they cried.
The Frog puffed up still more.

"He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little
Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much bigger and the old
Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.
Do not attempt the impossible.

Questions:
1. What is the story all about?
a. An Ox c a m e d o w n t o a r e e d y p o o l t o d r i n k .
b. The ox and the frog.
c. The way the frog puffed up.
d. None of the above
2. What does the word HUGE mean in paragraph 3?
a. Heavy
b. Big
c. Impossible
d. None of the above
3. Which of the following best describe lesson for this story_____?
a. H e c o u l d n o t h a v e b e e n b i g g e r t h a n t h i s , " s h e s a i d .
b. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was
much, much bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself
out more and more until, all at once, she burst.
c. Do not attempt the impossible.
d. None of the above

4. Which choice provides the best evidence for the answer to the previous
question?
a. "Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up.
"Was he as big as this?"
b. "A great big monster," said one of them, "stepped on
little brother with one of his huge feet!"
c. "Oh, much bigger!" they cried.
d. None of the above

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The Fox & the Stork
The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense
of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.
"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork,
smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly
accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good
appetite.
For dinner the Fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow
dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a
drop of soup could he get. But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to
increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.
The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a
calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage.
Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn.
The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork
served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell. But it was served in
a tall jar with a very narrow neck. The Stork could easily get at the food
with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the
jar, and sniff at the delicious odor. And when the Fox lost his temper, the
Stork said calmly:
Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.

Questions:
1. What is story all about?
a. Disappoint of the stork
b. The tricks played by the fox to the stork.
c. The invitation of the stork
d. None of the above
2. What does the word disappointment mean?
a. Displeased
b. Happy
c. Delicious
d. None of the above
3. What does the stork do when it was invited?
a. T h e S t o r k g l a d l y a c c e p t e d t h e i n v i t a t i o n .
b. N e v e r m i n d t h e i n v i t a t i o n .
c. G i v e r e s e r v a t i o n
d. N o n e o f t h e a b o v e
4. The answer above can be found in paragraph _____?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 2 and 3
c. Paragraph 2
d. None of the above

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The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the
watchfulness of the Shepherds. But one night he found a sheep skin that
had been cast aside and forgotten. The next day, dressed in the skin, the
Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep. Soon a little Lamb was
following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.
That evening the Wolf entered the fold with the flock. But it
happened that the Shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very
evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold. There the first he laid
hands on and killed was the Wolf.
The evil doer often comes to harm through his own deceit.

Questions:
1. What does the story above all about?
a. A wolf that could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the shepherds.
b. The trick of the wolf of wearing sheep’s skin.
c. The evil doing of the wolf.
d. None of the above
2. The does the word STROLLED mean in the first paragraph?
a. Walk around
b. Follow
c. Lead a way
d. None of the above
3. What happen to the wolf when it entered the fold with flock in that evening?
a. Was chase away
b. Was not seen
c. Was killed by the shepherd
d. None of the above
4. The above answer can be best describe in paragraph __________?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 2
c. Paragraph 3
d. Paragraph 4

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The Boy Who Became a Stone

One day a little boy named Elonen sat out in the yard making a bird snare, and
as he worked, a little bird called to him: "Tik-tik-lo-den" (come and catch me).

"I am making a snare for you," said the boy; but the bird continued to call until
the snare was finished.

Then Elonen ran and threw the snare over the bird and caught it, and he put it in
a jar in his house while he went with the other boys to swim.

While he was away, his grandmother grew hungry, so she ate the bird, and
when Elonen returned and found that his bird was gone, he was so sad that he wished
he might go away and never come back. He went out into the forest and walked a long
distance, until finally he came to a big stone and said: "Stone, open your mouth and
eat me." And the stone opened its mouth and swallowed the boy.

When his grandmother missed the boy, she went out and looked everywhere,
hoping to find him. Finally, she passed near the stone and it cried out: "Here he is."
Then the old woman tried to open the stone but she could not, so she called the horses
to come and help her. They came and kicked it, but it would not break. Then she
called the carabao and they hooked it, but they only broke their horns. She called the
chickens, which pecked it, and the thunder, which shook it, but nothing could open it,
and she had to go home without the boy.

Questions:

1. What is the story all about? 3. What did the grandmother do when
a. It is about the boy who caught a she was hungry?
bird. a. Cook and eat rice
b. A grandmother who ate the bird.
b. She ate the bird.
c. A boy who wished he might go
away and never come back. c. Find something to eat
d. None of the above d. None of the above
2. What does the word snare in 4. The answer above can be best
paragraph 1 and 2? describe in the paragraph?
a. Jar a. Paragraph 1 and 2
b. Bird’s trap b. Paragraph 3
c. A net c. Paragraph 4
d. None of above d. None of the above

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The Man with the Coconuts

One day a man who had been to gather his coconuts loaded his horse heavily
with the fruit. On the way home he met a boy whom he asked how long it would take
to reach the house.

"If you go slowly," said the boy, looking at the load on the horse, "you will
arrive very soon; but if you go fast, it will take you all day."

The man could not believe this strange speech, so he hurried his horse. But the
coconuts fell off and he had to stop to pick them up. Then he hurried his horse all the
more to make up for lost time, but the coconuts fell off again. Many time he did this,
and it was night when he reached home.

Questions:

1. What is the story all about?

a. A man who had loaded his horse heavily with a coconut.
b. A boy who give direction to the man.
c. A horse who carried a heavy load of coconut.
d. None of the above
2. What does the word strange mean in the third paragraph?
a. Unbelievable
b. Not common
c. Not good to hear
d. None of the above
3. Why is the man reached home late?
a. Because he hurried his horse.
b. Because he did not believe the advice of the boy.
c. Because he started late.
d. None of the above
4. The correct answer above can be found in paragraph_____?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 2
c. Paragraph 3
d. None of the above

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The Miller with the Golden Thumb

A merchant that thought to deride a miller sitting among company said to him,
"Sir, I have heard that every honest miller that tells the truth has a golden thumb."

The miller answered and said it was true.

Then the merchant said, "I pray, let me see your thumb." And when the miller
showed his thumb, the merchant said, "I cannot perceive that your thumb is gold. It is
the same as other men's thumbs."

The miller answered, and said, "Sir, the truth is that my thumb is gold, but you
have no power to see it, for it has the property that he who is a cuckold shall never
have power to see it."

Questions:

1. What is the story above all about?

a. A miller with a golden thumb.
b. A merchant that thought to deride a miller.
c. A miller and a merchant that deride each other.
d. None of the above
2. What does the word DERIDE mean?
a. Trick
b. Snub
c. Test
d. None of the above
3. What did the merchant do that deride the miller?
a. The merchant asks the miller to tell the truth that the miller has a golden hand.
b. The merchant entertains the miller.
c. The sing for the miller.
d. None of the above
4. In the above correct answer, in what paragraph can it be best describe?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 2
c. Paragraph 3
d. None of the above

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From the Love story A Service of Love

by O. Henry
PASSAGE 1:

Joe Larrabee came out of the post-oak flats of the Middle West pulsing with a genius for
pictorial art. At six he drew a picture of the town pump with a prominent citizen passing it
hastily. This effort was framed and hung in the drug store window by the side of the ear of corn
with an uneven number of rows. At twenty he left for New York with a flowing necktie and a
capital tied up somewhat closer.

Questions:

1. What does the passage above all about? 3. What is framed and hung in the
a. About Joe Larrabee’s artwork drugstore?
b. The activity of Joe Larrabee on that a. Picture
day. b. Diploma
c. Drawing a picture c. Art work
d. None of the above d. None of the above
2. What does the word PROMINENT 4. The correct answer above can be best
mean? describe in what sentence ____?
a. Known person a. Sentence 1
b. With high value b. Sentence 2
c. With good reputation c. Sentence 3
d. None of the above d. None of the above

PASSAGE 2:
"My pupil is his daughter Clementina. I dearly love her already. She's a delicate
thing-dresses always in white; and the sweetest, simplest manners! Only eighteen years
old. I'm to give three lessons a week; and, just think, Joe! $5 a lesson. I don't mind it a
bit; for when I get two or three more pupils I can resume my lessons with Herr Rosen
stock. Now, smooth out that wrinkle between your brows, dear, and let's have a nice
supper."
Questions:
1. What does the passage above all about? 2. What does the word DELICATE mean?
a. It is about Clementia. a. simplest manner
b. It is about the lesson given to b. Pleasing to others
clementia. c. Dresses always
c. It is about having a more d. None of the above
students. 3. How old was Clementia?
d. None of the above a. 12 Years old

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b. 18 Years old a. Sentence 1
c. 15 Years old b. Sentence 2
d. None of the above c. Sentence 3
4. In what sentence the answer above can d. None of the above
be best describe?
PASSAGE 3:
Sometimes," she said, a little wearily, "Clementina tries me. I'm afraid she doesn't
practice enough, and I have to tell her the same things so often. And then she always dresses
entirely in white, and that does get monotonous. But Gen. Pinkney is the dearest old man! I wish
you could know him, Joe. He comes in sometimes when I am with Clementina at the piano--he is
a widower, you know--and stands there pulling his white goatee. 'And how are the semiquavers
and the demisemiquavers progressing?' he always asks.

Questions:

1. What does the passage above all about?

a. Clementia and the piano
b. The piano lesson of clementia.
c. The weary of the narrator on clementia not attending the piano lesson.
2. What does the word MONOTONOUS mean?
a. Always the same
b. Always ask
c. Does not practice enough
d. None of the above
3. What does clementia always dress?
a. Dresses entirely the same
b. Dresses entirely in white
c. Sleeveless dress
d. None of the above.
4. The answer of number 3 question can be best describe in sentence number ____?
a. Sentence 3
b. Sentence 4
c. Sentence 2
d. None of the above

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From the Passage of horror story NUMBER 13

By M. R. JAMES

PASSAGE 1:

Among the towns of Jutland, Viborg justly holds a high place. It is the seat of a
bishopric; it has a handsome but almost entirely new cathedral, a charming garden, a
lake of great beauty, and many storks. Near it is Hald, accounted one of the prettiest
things in Denmark; and hard by is Finder up, where Marsk Stig murdered King Erik
Glipping on St. Cecilia's Day, in the year 1286. Fifty-six blows of square-headed iron
maces were traced on Erik's skull when his tomb was opened in the seventeenth
century. But I am not writing a guide-book.
Questions:
1. What does the passage above mean?
a. It is about the town of Viborg that holds a high place Jutland.
b. It is about the murder of King Erik.
c. It is about the celebration.
d. None of the above
2. What does the word CHARMING mean?
a. Handsome
b. Great beauty
c. High place
d. None of the above
3. In the above passage who murdered King Erik?
a. Viborg
b. Hald
c. Mark Stig
d. None of the above
4. The answer of the question in number 3 can be best describe in _____?
a. Sentence 1
b. Sentence 4
c. Sentence 3
d. None of the above

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PASSAGE 2:

Herr Kristensen was flattered by the invitation, and most willingly accepted it.
At about ten o'clock he was to make his appearance, but before that Anderson had
some letters to write, and retired for the purpose of writing them. He almost blushed
to himself at confessing it, but he could not deny that it was the fact that he was
becoming quite nervous about the question of the existence of Number 13; so much so
that he approached his room by way of Number 11, in order that he might not be
obliged to pass the door, or the place where the door ought to be. He looked quickly
and suspiciously about the room when he entered it, but there was nothing, beyond
that indefinable air of being smaller than usual, to warrant any misgivings. There was
no question of the presence or absence of his portmanteau tonight. He had himself
emptied it of its contents and lodged it under his bed. With a certain effort he
dismissed the thought of Number 13 from his mind, and sat down to his writing.
Questions:
1. What is the passage above all about?
a. The invitation of Herr Kristensen
b. About the Number 13
c. About the existence of room number 13.
d. None of the above
2. What does the word PORTMANTEAU mean?
a. A large suitcase
b. A small bag
c. A hand bag
d. None of the above
3. Who had had willingly accepted the invitation?
a. Anderson
b. Herr Kristensen
c. A and B
d. None of the above
4. The answer of question number t3 can be best describe in sentence _____?
1. Sentence 1
2. Sentence 2
3. Sentence 5
4. None of the above

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PASSAGE 3:

The men nodded, and the younger stepped forward, raised his crowbar, and
dealt a tremendous blow on the upper panel. The result was not in the least what any
of them anticipated. There was no cracking or rending of wood—only a dull sound, as
if the solid wall had been struck. The man dropped his tool with a shout, and began
rubbing his elbow. His cry drew their eyes upon him for a moment; then Anderson
looked at the door again. It was gone; the plaster walls of the passage stared him in
the face, with a considerable gash in it where the crowbar had struck it. Number 13
had passed out of existence.
Questions:
1. What does the passage above all about?
a. Tremendous blow on the upper panel.
b. The cracking or rending of woods.
c. Sound of horror
d. None of the above
2. What does the word TREMENDOUS mean?
a. Notable by reason of extreme sound
b. Cracking or rending of wood
c. Solid blow
d. None of the above
3. Who looked at the door again after the tremendous blow?
a. Anderson
b. The man
c. A and B
d. None of the above
4. The answer of the question number 3 can be best describe in sentence ___?
a. Sentence 1
b. Sentence 2
c. Sentence 5
d. None of the above

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