English Reading Level I-Answer Key

Reading for Literature

1. C. to treat the children well
2. A. Greed makes people act in selfish ways.
3. C. When Sabine’s friends realize that she is left without any food because she has shared
her food with them, they each give her a portion of their cookies.
4. B. One is kind-hearted and wants to let the children go while the other wants to kill them.
5. A. The story is set in a poor village in the beginning and in a castle at the end.
6. B. An old lady adopts Karen and takes care of her.
7. D. awkward
8. E. resolution
9. D. He would make a great meal.
10. C. fear
11. B. news of the grandfather’s health
12. E. Supporting family members in times of need is a priority.
13. D. “As it turned out, her friends were waiting for her to leave the room so they could
surprise her.”
14. C. The narrator’s family is worried about the grandfather, and they finally get good news.
15. E. The characters learn that the grandfather will make a recovery.
16. E. complain
17. B. It explains why spiders should fear us more than we fear them.
18. D. AABB CCDD
19. A. A first-person narration gives a detailed account of the tense mood.
20. B. They are happy in the garden.
Reading for Information
21. A. its location and food type it eats
22. E. Although earthquake drills are carried out, earthquakes may strike without warning.
23. D. “The earthquake took the city by surprise…”
24. B. Rainbows are reflections of light and are seen differently by people.
25. a. The uncle’s house was not destroyed by the earthquake.
26. E. Mexico City holds a celebration every year in memory of those who died during the
earthquakes.
27. E. because rainbows are a reflection of sunlight
28. A. beautiful scent
29. C. Passage 1 is descriptive while passage 2 is in chronological order.
30. A. Both Laura Bridgman and Helen Keller made great progress in their education once
they understood how to communicate.
31. E. Itching can sometimes be caused by allergies.
32. D. by mentioning that scratching makes rashes worse
33. D. by mentioning that scratching makes rashes worse
34. D. travel across new territories for settlement
 
                                                                                                                                              Level I | 1 
 
35. E. Pioneers traveling across Oregon faced many dangers.
36. B. “They spend months and years traveling across vast distances…”
37. A. Pioneers faced threats of accidents, diseases, and attacks.
38. D. They lived on the land before pioneers came.
39. C. obtained
40. E. It develops the main idea.
41. E. his bias towards American pioneers
42. D. to emphasize the hardships that pioneers faced as they discovered new settlements
43. D. by giving reasons why pioneers died during their journey
44. B. American pioneers traveled in wagons.
45. D. “… has become an educational tourist attraction.”

 
                                                                                                                                              Level I | 2