Adv. Exam.: Form A

TEST 1. READING: PARAGRAPH MEANING

Sample: Dick and Tom were playing ball in the field. Dick was throwing the ball and .............

was trying to catch it.

Write JUST ONE WORD on each dotted line.

1 Fanny has a little red hen. Every day the hen goes to her nest and laysan egg for Fanny to eat. Then she makes a funny noise to tell Fanny tocome and get the ..............
2 A kitten can climb a tree, but a dog cannot. This is very lucky forNellie's kitten. Every time Joe's big dog comes along the kitten climbsa tree and the ............. cannot follow.
3 Anna had never seen a squirrel in her life, although she had alwayswanted to very much. One day when she was playing under a tree sheheard a funny little noise over her head. She looked up, and what doyou think she saw? Up there in the ............. was the very thing shehad always wanted to see, a ...............
4 John and Joe played one day till they were very hungry; so John wentinto the house and asked his mother for something to..............When he came out again he had a big apple for himself and another for ...............
5 One day when Jane was sweeping she found a dime on the floor under thebed. They could not find out whose dime it was, so Jane's mother gaveit to her. Now, every time Jane ............ the floor she lookscarefully under the bed for another ..............
6 Helen and Kate pulled their sled through the deep snow to the top of thehill and soon were coasting swiftly down again. They did this over andover. The ............ was so deep that they found it hard work todrag the ............ to the top.
7 Once a black raven wanted to have white feathers like a swan. The ravensaw that the swan lived in the water, and thought it was the water thatmade the swan's feathers so white. So the ............ decided to washhis feathers every day to see if it would not make them ...............
8 Birds' eggs are almost as different from each other as are the birdsthemselves. The robin lays four or five blue eggs. The dove lays twowhite eggs. The sparrow lays six or eight speckled eggs. If we shouldfind a nest with four blue eggs in it, we could be pretty sure that itwas the nest of a ............ rather than of a ............ or dove.
9> Once there lived on a mountain near a village an immense giant whosecruelty kept the people of the village in great terror. However, therewas one person in the village who was not afraid of the giant. This wasa young soldier who carried a magic sword that a fairy had given him.Once when the ............ came down from the ............ thesoldier attacked him with his magic ............ and killed him.
10 Once a hen was so foolish as to go to a fox and ask him to look afterher chicks while she went to the barnyard to find some worms for herchicks. The fox was of course quite willing. The hen was gone a longtime. When she finally returned, she found that the fox had eaten allher chicks. Since then no ............ has employed a as a nurse.
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Adv. Exam.: Form A

TEST 1, CONTINUED

11When the bear appeared near the hut, Walter was alone. His father haddriven to the village, that morning, several miles away. Fortunately hehad left his gun hanging on the wall loaded and ready for service.Walter was excited, but he did not hesitate. Quickly seizing the.................. he .................. the...................
12In a certain village a ton of coal costs just as much as a cord ofwood, but it produces twice as much heat. Therefore the poor familiesin this village should be advised to burn ............. rather than .................
13 "Come on" called Joe, "let's go for a swim down by Jones' Point, wherethe river is deep." "No," said Pete, "let's swim down by Duggan's.where the water is warmer." "It isn't because the water is warm thatyou want to go to .............., but because you can't swim," said................
14 Richard and Miss Cabot quickly found their way alone to the house ofMr. Smith on Craven Street. Miss Cabot left Richard in the carriage,walked quickly to the door, and sending up her card by the servant,requested to see Mr. Smith. The ............. soon returned and beggedher to come in. As soon as she had done so. Miss Cabot introducedherself to Mr. ............. and begged him to come out and talk with............., who was waiting outside in the carriage.
15 Joe made up a game which he called "Jac-alack." One person called Jackmust climb a tree and hang by his arms from a low bough. The othersstand behind him and say in unison, "Alas, alack, he fell on his back,"and while they are saying it, one of them hits Jack with a bean bag. IfJack can see or guess who did it, he may drop down, and the guiltyperson takes his place. Otherwise he has to ............ there foranother turn and sing out, "Alas, alack, another whack." It is quite agame and Jack must have strong ................
16 It is well established that the bee, which is commonly supposed to beso industrious, really works only two or three hours a day. The man whoworks eight or ten hours a day is therefore far more ............ thanthe ................
17 Boys and girls know my name. And mothers and fathers, too. Big folkslove me. You do, too. The first letters in the first four sentences ofthis paragraph spell my name; so write it here ................
18 Energy is a measure of the fullness of life and is indispensable forgenius. No energy at all is death. Idiots are feeble and listless.Nearly all the leaders of mankind have been noted for their remarkable................
19 Deciduous trees lose their leaves in winter, while evergreens, as theirname implies, do not. Therefore, in forests composed of .............trees the ground is less shaded in winter than is the case in forestswhose trees are ................
20 Some historians believe that the spread of anti-slavery feeling amongthe people of the North previous to the Civil War was due less to themoral issue involved than to the fact that they recognized the systemof ............ as a menace to the industrial system of free labor.
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