LESSON 15: A WORKOUT FOR EYES

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. the importance of eye exercises
b. three exercises to keep your eyes healthy
c. the best way to read calendars

2. What do you need to practice focusing?

a. a clock and a pencil
b. a calendar and a pencil
c. a clock and a letter

3. When you practice focusing, how far do you stand away from the calendar?

a. thirty centimeters 
b. two meters 
c. three meters

4. Pretending to with your eyes can be a good exercise.

a. write the alphabet 
b. see a clock 
c. move your head

5. Which is NOT true about the eye exercises?

a. When you roll your eyeballs, roll them clockwise five times.
b. When you write with your eyes, you can move your head.
c. When you write with your eyes, you should write as big as you can.

READ AGAIN

GRADE:

LESSON 14; MORRIS FRANK AND HIS SEEING EYE DIG, BUDDY

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. different kinds of Seeing Eye dogs
b. how to train a Seeing Eye dog
c. the first Seeing Eye dog in North America

2. How old was Morris Frank when he became blind?

a. six 
b. sixteen 
c. nineteen

3. What was Dorothy Harrison Eustis’s newspaper article about?

a. a school called The Seeing Eye
b. breeding dogs in Tennessee
c. training dogs to help blind people

4. Blind people can have more with Seeing Eye dogs.

a. freedom 
b. problems 
c. friends

5. What did Eustis do in the United States?

a. She walked across streets with Buddy.
b. She started a school to train dogs.
c. She taught blind people in schools.

READ AGAIN

GRADE;A+

LESSON 13: OUR AMAZING ALASKA VACATION!

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. taking photographs of glaciers
b. visiting glaciers in Alaska
c. hiking on glaciers in Alaska

2. Glaciers are pieces of ice that slowly across the land.

a. tiny, move 
b. big, fall 
c. massive, move

3. How many glaciers does Alaska have?

a. nearly 10,000 
b. nearly 100,000 
c. nearly 1,000,000

4. What does the word It in the third paragraph refer to?

a. a splash 
b. a cruise ship 
c. a cave

5. Which is true about the Hubbard Glacier?

a. It is the longest glacier in the world.
b. It is a valley glacier.
c. Steve saw it from a cruise ship.

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GRADE; A+

LEESON 12; JEAN DE MAIRAN'S AMAZING DISCOVERY

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Jean de Mairan taught other astronomers about plants.
b. Jean de Mairan grew a mimosa plant in his cupboard.
c. Jean de Mairan discovered an amazing fact about plants.

2. Which is NOT true about de Mairan?

a. He was a French astronomer.
b. He invented a special clock.
c. He tried an experiment on a mimosa plant.

3. Before the experiment, what did de Mairan think would happen?

a. The mimosa plant would die without the sun.
b. The mimosa plant’s leaves would grow longer without the sun.
c. The mimosa plant’s leaves wouldn’t open or close without the sun.

4. What does the word it in the third paragraph refer to?

a. de Marian 
b. the mimosa plant 
c. the cupboard

5. Even without the sun, the plant knew .

a. when it was day and night
b. who put it in the cupboard
c. how to keep growing

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GRADE: A+

LESSON 11: TELLING TIME

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Ancient people in West Asia could not tell time at night.
b. Ancient people used sundials and water clocks to tell time.
c. Ancient buildings were often used to tell time.

2. What did sundials use to tell the time?

a. the wind 
b. the moon 
c. shadows

3. What does the word They in the second paragraph refer to?

a. people in West Asia
b. smaller sundials 
c. tall poles


4. How did people tell time using water clocks?

a. The marks on the water container showed the time.
b. The water in the second container showed the time.
c. The position of the sun and its shadow told the time.

5. The water in the second container was used to 
.
a. drink 
b. wash the first container 
c. refill the clock

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GRADE: A+

LESSON 10: WHERE DID OUR CALENDAR COME FROM?

COMPREHENSION

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. the history of calendars
b. the history of Babylon
c. Julius Caesar and his calendar

2. Which is NOT true about the Babylonian calendar?

a. It had 12 lunar months.
b. It was based on the sun’s cycles.
c. It had 354 days each year.

3. What did the ancient Egyptians look at to make their calendar?

a. the sun and the moon
b. the moon and the Dog Star
c. the sun and the Dog Star

4. A year with an extra day is called .

a. a Gregorian year 
b. a leap year 
c. a lunar year

5. Which calendar do we use today?

a. the Roman calendar 
b. the lunar calendar 
c. the Gregorian calendar

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GRADE:A+

LESSON 9: MISSING CHIDREN

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Etan Patz went missing in 1979 and was never found.
b. Milk cartons were once used to help find missing children.
c. We can help find missing children through the Internet.

2. How old was Etan Patz when he disappeared?

a. six 
b. seven 
c. ten

3. What did the milk carton program put on the sides of milk cartons?

a. the news 
b. children’s faces 
c. ingredients

4. Which is NOT true about the milk carton program?

a. Hundreds of dairies joined the program.
b. Etan Patz was the first child shown on a milk carton.
c. The New York City Police Department started the program.

5. The NCMEC helped find missing children.

a. less than 182,000 
b. 182,000 
c. more than 182,000

READ AGAIN

GRADE:A+

LESSON 8: MAKING DELICIOUS CHEESE AT HOME

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. how to make a healthy meal with cottage cheese
b. why cottage cheese is a healthy food
c. how to make cottage cheese at home

2. What is the first step to making cottage cheese?

a. pour the vinegar into a bowl
b. pour the milk into a pot
c. mix the milk and salt

3. How long should you heat the milk?

a. thirty minutes 
b. one hour 
c. one day

4. After heating the milk, you need to add .


a. a cup of vinegar and a lot of salt
b. a quarter cup of vinegar and a little salt
c. a quarter cup of salt and a cup of vinegar

5. What do you use to rinse the mixture and squeeze it?

a. a colander 
b. a pot 
c. a cheesecloth

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GRADE:A+

LESSON 7: HOW DOES MILK GET TO US.

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. the reason why cows eat grass
b. the process of getting milk from cows to us
c. how farmers take care of their cows

2. How long do cows have to eat each day to stay healthy?

a. two hours
 b. five hours 
c. six hours

3. What do farmers do before milking their cows?

a. heat the milk
b. wash the cows’ udders
c. put the milk in containers

4. A special tank the warm milk.

a. cools 
b. boils 
c. freezes

5. Where is the milk tested?

a. at a farm 
b. at a supermarket 
c. at a processing plant

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GRADE: A+

LESSON 6: MILK

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. All baby mammals drink their mother’s milk.
b. Some mammals drink milk for a long time.
c. Humans drink milk every day.

2. What does a mammal mother’s milk have in it?

a. hay and grass 
b. meat and honey 
c. vitamins and minerals

3. How often do baby rabbits drink milk?

a. once a day 
b. twice a day 
c. three times a day

4. When cheetahs’ get stronger, they stop drinking milk.

a. teeth and tongues 
b. eyes and legs 
c. teeth and jaws

5. When do humans start drinking their mother’s milk?

a. at the beginning of their lives
b. at three weeks old
c. at four months old

READ AGAIN!

GRADE: A+

LESSON 5: ICY RACE

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. how bobsleds are made
b. the origins of the Winter Olympics
c. the sport of bobsledding

2. How fast can bobsleds go?

a. 120 kilometers an hour 
b. 140 kilometers an hour 
c. 210 kilometers an hour

3. What does a brakeman do?

a. builds the bobsled 
b. controls the bobsled 
c. stops the bobsled

4. Which is true about bobsled tracks?

a. They are around 150 meters long.
b. They are covered with thin ice.
c. They have 15 or more curves.

5. Two-person teams race during the Olympics.

a. once 
b. twice 
c. four times

READ AGAIN: 
SCORE: A+

LESSON 4: THE BEST FATHERS IN ANTARTICA

COMPREHENSION:

 1. What is this passage mainly about?

a. how father emperor penguins take care of their eggs
b. how animals lay eggs in Antarctica’s freezing weather
c. why father emperor penguins do not eat in winter

2. Which is NOT true about emperor penguins?

a. They are the largest penguins on the earth.
b. They live in Antarctica.
c. They have babies in spring.

3. How long does the father penguin take care of the egg?

a. a few days 
b. two weeks 
c. two months

4. What happens if the egg falls on the ice?

a. It will break. 
b. It will freeze. 
c. It will hatch.

5. When the egg hatches, the father keeps the chick .

a. happy 
b. hungry 
c. warm


B. READ AGAIN!

READING SCORE:  A+

LESSON 3: ICE

COMPREHENSION: 

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Ice gets smaller when it melts.
b. Water freezes when it is in a freezer.
c. Water expands when it freezes.

2. What do water particles do when water becomes ice?

a. move apart 
b. move quickly 
c. move close together

3. The volume of ice is when it was water.

a. the same as 
b. bigger than 
c. smaller than

4. In the experiment, why was the ice higher than the line on the bottle?

a. The bottle was small. 
b. The ice was hard. 
c. The water expanded
.
5. What happens when water freezes inside the holes of rocks?

a. The rocks get harder. 
b. The ice gets smaller. 
c. The holes get bigger.

Complete the summary with the words from the box.

expand            holes            bigger              ice          particles 

                          freeze                        break

Water changes from a liquid to a solid when it becomes ICE. 

When water freezes, its PARTICLES move farther apart. 

This makes the water EXPAND.

Expanding water can cause problems. 

In winter, water pipes can FREEZE and break. 

This makes a big mess! 

In nature, water gets into the _HOLES of rocks. 

The holes get  BIGGER when the water freezes. 

This makes the rocks BREAK  apart.


                                                                                        GRADE:A+

LESSON 2: HOW ANIMALS SEE THINGS

COMPREHENSION:

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. Humans have better vision than animals.
b. All animals see things in the same way.
c. Animals see things in different ways than humans.

2. Which color do red and green look like to dogs?

a. green
b. yellow
c. blue

3. Which is true about dogs?

a. They cannot see gray and blue.
b. They have good night vision.
c. They have 30,000 lenses in their eyes.

4. Horses can easily see predators because of their view.

a. night
b. bright
c. wide

5. How far around can dragonflies see?

a. about 180 degrees
b. about 330 degrees
c. about 360 degrees

Complete the summary with the words from the box.

 vision         blind          gray          colors

sides             motion              degrees

Humans and animals see things differently.

Dogs cannot see some colors.

They only see gray, blue, and yellow.

But they have good night vision

Horses have eyes on the sides of their heads.

So, they can see about 350 degrees around.

But horses also have a blind spot between their eyes.

Dragonflies can see almost 360 degrees around.

They also see movements in slow motion.

GRADE: A+

STUDY WORD LIST #2

LESSON 1 : EYES

A. COMPREHENSION:


1. What is this passage mainly about?    

a. why we have two eyes
b. how to judge distances
c. ways to see things better

2. What kind of view do you get when you use two eyes?

a. a right-side view 
b. a wider view 
c. a narrower view

3. It is easier to judge with two eyes.

a. distances 
b. wideness     ( WRONG)
c. experiments

4. What do you need to touch together in the experiment?

a. my hand and my eye
b. a pencil’s eraser and my hand
c. two pencils’ erasers

5. How can having two eyes help protect our vision?

a. We can see better with only one eye.
b. Our eyes will not get any diseases.   (WRONG)
c. Each eye can be a backup for the other one.

B. Complete the summary with the words from the box.

          lose        view        both          far          distances        

  advantages      protects   

There are three  ADVANTAGES  to having two eyes. 
We get a wider   VIEW  with two eyes. 
When we use  BOTH  eyes, the views are combined. 
So we can see more things. 
Having two eyes also helps us judge  DISTANCES.
With two eyes, we can tell how  FAR  away things are. 
Having two eyes  PROTECT  our eyesight, too. 
If we LOSE sight in one eye, we can still see with the other one.

  GRADE:   A     

HOMEWORK; 
STUDY WORD LIST LESSON #1