REVIEW QUIZ 3rd Quarterly Test

NAME: ___________________________________ DATE:_________

I. Consonant Clusters./Blends and Digraphs Write CB if the word has a blend and CD if it has a
digraph.

______1. detach ______2. smooth ____3.kitchen

II. The /s/ sound. List words whose /s/ is represented by the following letters.

c sc -ce
4. ______________________ 5. _____________________ 6. ___________________

III. Soft and Hard /th/. Write hard or soft.

________7. warmth ________8. width _________9. sheath

IV. Using Reference Materials. Write the letter of the reference material to be used if you want to
know the answers to the following questions.

a. Almanac d. Encyclopedia
b. Atlas e. Thesaurus
c. Dictionary f. Newspaper

______10. Who is Loki? _______12. What is the correct pronunciation of

______11. What is the synonym for glad? Mjölnir?

V. Using the Dictionary. Study the dictionary entry below. Answer the following questions.
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13. How many words are verbs? ___________________

14. What part of speech is depression? ________________

15. From what language did depression come from? _________________________________

16. Give one meaning of the word depress. ___________________________________

VI. Guide Words. Write BF if the word comes before the guide words in the parenthesis; BT if it
comes between; and AF if it comes after the pair of words.

_______17. pail (paginate—palatable) ______19. acre (acme—action)

_______18. charade (channel—charge)

VII. Find the Main Idea. Read each paragraph carefully. Write on the blank the letter of the
sentence that best tells what the paragraph is all about.

_______20. Molds like all living things, are made of many tiny packages of life. These are called cells. But
it takes only one cell to start a whole forest of molds. This kind of cell is called a spore.

a. Molds are made of tiny packages of life.

b. Living things are made up of tiny packages of life.
c. It takes only one spore of a mold to start a forest of mold.
d. A spore is a kind of cell.

_______21. The region known as the “Hundred Islands” off the northwest shore of the Gulf of Lingayen is
in truth a fisherman’s paradise. The waters around these hundreds of little green islands, with
their fantastic caves and half moons of white beach, abound in big game fish. It is the favorite
fishing grounds of hundreds of sportsmen. Many of them find the place so delightful that they
spend days fishing there.

a. The waters around the islands have caves and half moon white beaches.
b. Big game fish abound in the waters of the little green islands.
c. The ‘Hundred Islands’ is a favorite fishing ground of many sportsmen.
d. Many sportsmen spend many delightful days fishing there.

_______22. Long ago, people believe that the sky was a shiny metal roof stretched over the earth! Now, of
course, we know what the sky really is. It’s simply air—a covering of air around the earth. Air
is wrapped around the earth somewhat like a skin of an orange is wrapped around the fruit
inside. This wrapper of air around the earth is called the atmosphere.

a. The atmosphere is like a wrapper of air around the earth.

b. People believed the sky was a shiny metal roof over the earth.
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c. The skin of an orange is wrapped around the fruit.
d. The atmosphere touches the ground everywhere.

VIII. Supporting Details. Write S in the blank if all the sentences are supporting details to the
underlined topic sentence. Write NS if a sentence in the paragraph is irrelevant.

_______23. Ice floats on water because it is not quite as dense as water is. The chemical formula for
water is H20. If ice were denser than water, then lakes and other bodies of water would freeze
from the bottom up during the winter. Fish would surface and eventually die.

______24. The cheetah,mjkl which is found mostly in Africa and India, is one of the fastest land
animals. Cheetahs, like leopards, are covered in spots. They have long and muscular
legs. Cheetahs have been known to sprint at a speed of over 60 miles per hour. On a long
distance run, however, a cheetah can be overtaken by a horse.

______25. The largest organ in the human body is the skin. One of the skin's functions is to help
regulate the amount of body heat that flows in and out of the body. Heavy smoking ages skin
very quickly. When it is cold, we cover the skin with extra layers of clothing to slow down the
outward flow of heat. When it is hot, evaporation of sweat cools us down.