Name______________________________Date_______________

Reading Comprehension
Volume 1, Number 1,

Tennis:
Tennis is my ___1___ sport. Nothing else comes close as a
great competitive activity.
For one thing, it’s easier to get a ___2___ going than with a team
sport. All you need are ___3___ people, one on each side.
Secondly, you can play for __4___ at many public courts. Sure, you
have to buy a racquet, but a ___5___ one should last for many
___ 6___. And a can of tennis ___7___ only costs a couple of dollars.
In addition, if you play tennis, you get a lot of ___8___.
Compare it to a sport like baseball, where players spend most of their
___9___ standing around waiting for something to happen.
Yes, as far as I’m concerned, tennis is the ___10___ sport in
the world!

1. funny easiest old favorite

2. game car player ball
3. one two three four
4. free fun hours money
5. wooden blue used good
6. hours days sports years
7. courts balls corn racquets
8. money fun sprains exercise
9. money help time paper
10. best worst same cheapest
 Name________________________________ Date______________
Reading Comprehension
Volume 1, Number 2
Motor homes
Take a big truck. Take a comfortable little house. Put them__1__ and
what do you get? A motor home.
A motor home has all the comforts of __2__. A complete kitchen is
standard, with a stove and __3__. Most __4__ motorhomes come from
the factory with a microwave oven too. They have small
dining room tables and seats called dinettes. They have living room
__5__ such as couches, chairs, and a television of course.
Motorhomes come with complete bathrooms. There’s no need
to look for a rest room along the highway. Time to wash up? No
problem. The well equipped motorhome has a shower; some even have
bathtubs.
When you’re __6__, just pull open the couch, rearrange the dinette, or
walk
back to the bedroom. There’s sleeping accommodations for the whole family
You can use a motorhome almost anywhere. They produce and store their
own electricity. They have __7__ to __8__ many gallons of fresh water
and waste water as well.
When it’s time to go __9__ or to just __10__ in style, nothing beats a
motor home!
1. a. close b. sideways c. apart d. together
2. a. cotton b. home c. pillows d. nails
3. a. shower b. toilet c. camera d. refrigerator
4. a. new b. old c. broken d. fast
5. a. carpets b. furniture c. windows d. curtains
6. a. cautious b. serious c. angry d. tired
7. a. cups b. tanks c. pails d. glasses
8. a. leak b. watch c. hold d. container
9. a. crying b. home c. camping d. backwards
10. a. dress b. design c. driver d. travel
1_____2_____3_____4_____5_____6_____7_____8_____
9_____10_____
Name____________________________ Date____________
Reading Comprehension
Volume 1, Number 3,

A Real Friend

Thank you so much, 'cause you’re always there;

You walk beside me, so I’m not alone;
You wag your tail to tell me you care;
You’re more like a friend than a pet that I own.

Thank you so much for the love that you’ve shown;

No matter what happens, you don’t turn away.
The best kind of "person" that I’ve ever known,
You’re someone I love, more than these words can say.

1. This poem is addressed to a _____.

a. brother or sister
b. parent
c. dog
d. cat

2. The poet probably _____.

a. is more comfortable around people than animals

b. thinks that some animals are kinder than many people
c. won’t eat hot dogs
d. lives on a farm

3. Why are quotation marks used in the next to last line of the poem?

a. They are used to show that the poem is almost over.

b. They are used to show that a person is talking.
c. They are used to show that someone is asking a very important
question.
d. They are used because a dog isn’t really a person, but is like a
person in an important way.

4. It is NOT possible to tell that the poet believes:

 a. A human can love an animal.
b. An animal can love a human.
c. All people are mean.
d. Dogs can let people know how they feel.

5. In the first line, the word "you’re" means _____.

a. belonging to you
b. you are
c. you are here
d. you never

6. The poem has NOTHING to do with _____.

a. friendship
b. love
c. loyalty
d. money

1______2______3______4______5______6______
 Name__________________________ Date_____________
Reading Comprehension

There’s something ___1___ with my feet! They don’t help me

run as ___2___ as I must to ___3___ every race. They don’t seem to
understand that I don’t like ___4___.
I guess I’ll have to figure out a way to make my feet and
___5___ work better. I’ll exercise a lot; I’ll go ___6___ every ___7___.
I’ll make sure I ___8___ the right foods. I will also go to bed ___9___,
because athletes must get enough ___10___.

1. a. neat b. great c. shoes d. wrong

2. a. fast b. faster c. fastest d. slowly
3. a. enter b. see c. win d. have
4. a. running b. losing c. winning d. illness
5. a. bike b. legs c. ears d. hands
6. a. camping b. crying c. running d. away
7. a. year b. month c. week d. day
8. a. like b. eats c. eat d. eating
9. a. quietly b. late c. early d. now
10. a. practice b. rest c. work d. food

1_____2_____3_____4_____5_____6_____7_____8_____9_____10_
____
Name__________________________________________Date_____
Reading Comprehension

Jim knew he had waited too long to head for home. He loved
to linger in the woods for hours at a time. But now it was getting so
___1___, he could barely see the path under his ___2___.
He ___3___ his pace, hoping to shorten the ___4___ it
would take to reach the edge of the small ___5___ he lived in. The
streets would be lit; Smithtown had installed ___6___ on every corner.
He also knew that many people ___7___ their porch lights on all night.
Suddenly, Jim ___8___ a strange sound. Could this be the
terrible creature that some believed ___9___ in these woods?
Hopefully, that creature only existed in the town's residents' ___10___.

1. a. dark b. cold c. cloudy d. bright

2. a. bridge b. thumb c. feet d. rug
3. a. lost b. found c. quickened d. expected
4. a. day b. days c. story d. time
5. a. house b. trailer c. town d. room
6. a. signs b. cans c. lights d. fountains
7. a. left b. shut c. removed d. replaced
8. a. saw b. smelled c. made d. heard
9. a. worked b. rushed c. played d. lived
10. a. homes b. forest c. books d. imaginations

1_____2_____3_____4_____5_____6_____7_____8_____9_____10_
____
 Name_______________________________ Date_____________
Reading Comprehension
Volume 1, Number 9

Once upon a time in a land now lost in time, there lived a

beautiful young princess named Princess Megan. She lived in a __1__
palace where her every __2__ was met. She had ice cream with every
meal. She had clothes made of pure gold. She even had her __3__
phone in her bedroom!
The palace was indeed a wonderful place to live. It was
__4__. It was exciting. It was safe. Did I say safe? Well not entirely.
You see, just outside the palace there was a magnificent
__5__. In that garden grew the most spectacular __6__ and the most
__7__ fruits and vegetables. However, in that garden there __8__ grew
the Terrible Onion. No one __9__ the Terrible Onion. But it was said
that the Terrible Onion would pop out of the ground and eat people
when the __10__ struck him.

1. a. cold b. grand c. stone d. small

2. a. friend b. pet c. wish d. enemy
3. a. toy b. own c. plastic d. old
4. a. luxurious b. drafty c. ancient d. wooden
5. a. garden b. tree c. pool d. lawn
6. a. fireworks b. sounds c. flowers d. stones
7. a. rotten b. pretty c. delicious d. costly
8. a. also b. never c. often d. did
9. a. eats b. called c. felt d. ate
10. a. stick b. car c. lightning d. mood

1_____2_____3_____4_____5_____6_____7_____8_____9_____10_
____
General Review

A. Change the following sentences from affirmative to

negative.

1. They live in Texas.

(They do not live in Texas. They don’t live in Texas.)
2. There are eleven months in a year.
3. The plane arrived at ten o’clock.
4. It is six o’clock now.
5. He went to Chicago by plane.
6. The two boys are in Ms. Collier’s office.
7. The magazine cost two dollars.
8. They live in Mexico now.
9. They lived in France for ten years.
10.He got up at five o’clock this morning.
11.They sat in the park for two hours.
12.She speaks English.
13.The meeting begins at nine o’clock.
14.She drinks ten cups of coffee every day.
15.They began to work in June.
16.I am ten years old.
17.They plan to finish the work in July.
18.We got sick last week.
19.The stores closed because of the holiday.
20.There were four employees absent from work this
morning.
21.You usually travel by plane.
22.Mary delivered the merchandise yesterday.
23.Scotty and Karen ate dinner at McDonald’s.
B. Change the sentences in Exercises A to questions.

1. They live in Texas.

(Do they live in Texas?)

C. Change the sentences in Exercise A to questions

beginning with a questions word.

1. They live in Texas.

(Where do they live? Why do they live in
Texas?)
Past Tense
Irregular Verbs

Memorize and practice the past tense forms of these

forms of these irregular verbs.

Become-became
Break-broke
Bring-brought
Catch-caught
Do-did
Fight-fought
Find-found
Forget-forgot
Keep-kept
Leave-left
Lose-lost
Make-made
Ring-rang
Send-sent
Sing-sang
Stand-stood
Take-took
Teach-taught
Think-thought
Understand-understood
Supply the correct past tense form of the verbs in
parentheses.

1. The plane (leave) Buenos Aires last night at

midnight
(The plane left Buenos Aires last night at
midnight.)
2. Sue (bring) her cousin to the party last night.
3. I (forget) to bring my notes to the meeting this
morning.
4. He (become) president of the company five years
ago
5. We (make) good time on our trip from Houston to
Mexico City.
6. I (lose) my book yesterday but (find it later.
7. The two men (fight) bitterly over the division of
the money.
8. The telephone (ring) twice, but no one answered it.
9. The Kanes (send) their three children to summer
camp.
10.George (think) about his troubles continuously.
11.Last year Professor Levy (teach) us both English
and mathematics.
12.They (buy) the property in 1980 and (sell) ii in
1993.
13.Carl (keep) part of the money and (give) the rest to
his two brothers.
14.The police (do) their best but never (catch) the
real bank robbers.
15.The woman (sing) in French; consequently, we
(understand) none of the words.
16.We (stand) on the corner and waited for Mel for
two hours.
17.You (break) my stereo, so yesterday I (take) it to
the repair shop.