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1. QUIZ 3 Reading 6
NAME: ________________________________________ DATE: ______________
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A. Main Idea.Choosethe letter of the TOPICSENTENCE whichcontains the main idea. Write the answer
before the number.
_____1. (a) At one time, churches in Europe were the biggest, highest buildings in town. (b) They were so high
that people could see them from far away.(c)Churches were also in the center of town,or very close to the
center, so that the other buildings in townwere never very far fromthe church. (d) Many of these big, tall
churches are called cathedrals.
_____2.(a)A courtjester was like a clown.(b) But a courtjester told his jokes and stories and did his dancing and
prancing forthe king and queen and other members of a royal court.(c) Beside telling jokes and dancing,
he took part in family gatherings, played withthe children and sometimes he even gave advice to the king.
_____3.(a)Astronauts train for months – even years –before they fly in outer space. (b) They practice flyingin
simulators. (c) A simulator is an exact model of the spacecraft they willfly on their real mission.
_____4.(a)Some sculptors are model builders. (b) They make models of people, and they call them statues. (c)
Sometimes, the statue-models are of the same size as real people. (d) Other times, they’re a lotlarger than
real people.
_____5.(a)Long ago, when it wasn’t so easy as it is today to travelto faraway places moviemakers had a problem.
(b)To make the movie lookas if it were taking place in another country,the moviemakers had to build a
fake setting. (c) A fake setting was expensive and tooka long time to build. (d) Today, when moviemakers
want to make a movie about a country, they just go to that country instead of building a set.
B. Supporting Details and Irrelevant sentences. Study theparagraph. Write S if all sentences are supporting details
to the underlined topic sentence. Write NS (notsupporting) if a sentence in the group is irrelevant.
_____6.Many animals communicate withoutsounds. When a bee finds food,it returns to the hive and ‘dances’ in a
special way.The dance tells other bees where the foodis. Hornets and wasps sting like bees.
_____7.Adesert is a land that is like no other on this amazing earth of ours. Reptiles move from sun to shade to keep
from getting too hot or too cold.It doesn’t have the leafy greenery of other lands. It is harsh and
forbidding, with great extremes of climate—fromburning heat to freezing cold.
_____8.Inthe Gobi Desert of Asia, where summers are hot and winters are freezing cold,there are nomads that live
as traders. For centuries these people and their camel caravans have traveled the same ancient trails.
Animals of all kinds have found special ways to survive.Although different desert people have different
waysof getting foodand water, these nomads know where the desert’s water sources are found.
_____9.Inthe Philippines there are no deserts. With the right knowledge and skills, man can make a desert into a
rich farmland. Some of these skills have already been developed and put into action. The results have
been amazing in California’s Imperial Valley whichwas once a wasteland of dry desert. Today, it is a rich,
productive farming area—thanks to the dams and the canals bringing the water of the Colorado River to
the valley’s fields.

2. QUIZ 3 Reading 6
NAME: ________________________________________ DATE: ______________
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_____10.Israelhas combined modern-day knowledge witha 2,000 year-old system of wells and ditches. Most
deserts have underground springs or rivers that flow far below the ground. Underground water bubbles
up to the surface through a break in the rocks. And wherever it does, an oasis—an area of green, growing
things—appears. Fig trees and dates are some of the green, growing things in the oasis.
C. Irrelevant Sentences.Study theparagraphs below. Write the letter of the irrelevant sentence in the blank.
_____11. (A)Thelongest-lived creature in the insect worldis the queen termite (ant). (B) She has been known to
live forover 50 years. (C) During that time, the queen can lay over 30,000 eggs each day. (D)So in her 50
years of life, it is possible forher to give birth to half a billion children. (E) Some termite hills can be over
six meters high.
_____12.(A)Formany years, all books were written by hand. (B) Because it took so long to writeone book,there
were only a few of them. (C) Most people could never owna book. ( D) Then sometime between 1450
and 1460, Johannes Gutenberg got the idea of carving separate letters and moving them to make new
words. Gutenberg died at the age of 68. (E) This was the invention of moveable type. (F) From then on,
the numbers of books printed grew quickly.
_____13. (A)The solar system is believed to have formed, perhaps 5 billion years ago, froma spinning cloud of gas
called a nebula. (B) As this nebula contracted it began to spin faster and faster. (C) Probably it spun off
rings of planetary matter as it became more disk-like. (D) These rings later contracted into planets.
(F) Earthis the third planet from the Sun.
_____14.(A)Some people do not know that the whale is a mammal just like a human. (B) Humpback whales will
sometimes leap clear up out of the water, an act known as breaching. (C) Since a humpback whale can
weigh thirty tons and measure 15 meters in length, it takes an enormous amount of energy to do this.
_____15.(A)The largest organ in the human body is the skin. (B) One of the skin's functions is to help regulate the
amount of body heat that flowsin and out of the body. (C) Heavy smoking ages skin very quickly. (D)
When it is cold, we cover the skin with extra layers of clothing to slow down the outward flow of heat. (E)
When it is hot, evaporation of sweat cools us down.
D. Hard and Soft /th/.Readthe sentences carefully.Encirclethe wordswith the /th/ sound.
16. He seemed to be quite thirsty.
17. Peeta ran off with a grin on his face.
18. Kobe stopped to thank his fans.
19. Jordan broke his thumb while playing bowling.
20. Albert Einstein is famous forhis Theory of Relativity.
E. Hard and Soft /th/.Identify the sound of the /th/. Write hard orsoft.
_________21.nothing _________24.healthy
_________22.thirteenth _________25.bathe
_________23.breathe