Kader-mavo 2 reading practice

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k, mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Reading practice 

2 Kader-mavo 

Wat doe je als je zoekend leest?

1. De hele tekst lezen naar het juiste antwoord.
2. Titel, kopjes, dikgedrukte woorden en plaatjes bekijken.
3. De hele tekst lezen voor je de vragen bekijkt
4. Kijken in de vraag waar je naar opzoek gaat en scan de tekst naar het antwoord.

Reading matters quiz 

stukje uit een novel: 

York: The Shadow Cipher

''The city had many nicknames: Gotham. Metropolis. The shining Starr. The big apple. The city that never sleeps. These nicknames were not always accurate. For example, why would anyone refer to a city as an overlarge piece of fruit? also the city did sleep, but it slept the way a cat does, eyes half open, watchful, ready to spring at the first sign of fun, or danger.''

What does the author compare the city with?

1. a piece of fruit
2. a star
3. a sleeping cat
4. something dangerous

''That morning a very different kind of cat was getting ready to spring. The cat in question lived in the Biedermann family's cluttered apartement at 354 W 73rd Street and kept her sock collection underneath the Biedermann's coffee table.''

What did the cat do?

1. The cat jumped from the table
2. The cat steals the family's socks
3. The cat likes to wear socks

''They were also having a problem. The cat - a large spotted animal that would have looked more at home on a South African savanna than in the living room on the Upper West Side - had the business end of a striped sock gripped firmly in her teeth. She was growling. The lanky girl sitting on the floor gripping the other end of the sock growled right back''

What is the problem?

1. The cat appears to be a wild animal
2. The cat belongs in Africa.
3. The girl wants to be a cat
4. The cat and the girl are fighting over a sock

''This....is....my...favorite..sock...' Tess said, her dark braid whipping like a tail against her olive skin. The cat's striped tail lashed in kind''
Tess's twin brother, Theo, who was standing at the kitchen counter, poking at his favorite alphabet cereal with the back of his spoon, said 'the cat is winning.''

Why is Tess angry with the cat?

1. Theo thinks the cat is stronger than Tess
2. the cat took her favorite sock
3. The cat is pulling on her braid
4. The cat is eating the cereal

''Tess said, 'yeah well I wouldn't clean up the stupid socks if those people weren't coming to see your stupid tower.''

why is Tess cleaning up the socks?

1. There are guests coming over
2. The socks are stupid
3. To make room for a tower

Mrs. Biedermann rifled through a briefcase the size of a suitcase. 'It is not a stupid tower. And stop saying things are stupid.' 'It is the wrong tower,' Tess said.

what does Tess think about the tower Theo built?

1. She likes it
2. she hates it
3. She finds it funny looking
4. She should stop saying things are stupid

Theo Biedermann had built a scale model of the Tower of London - a model that took up the Biedermann's entire dining room - for a national lego contest (he won).

What do we know about the Tower?

1. The tower is very small
2. The tower takes up a lot of space
3. The tower is made of wood
4. His tower got second place in the contest

''Now, a week into summer vacation, school officials were finally coming to interview Theo, to congratulate him for his prize (even more legos) and to photograph the tower for the school website

what did Theo win?

1. more legos
2. A photo of him on the school website
3. an extra week of summer vacation

Mrs. Biedermann thought they should clean up the cat's sock collection before the people arrived, but the cat had other ideas, so did Tess. Theo still didn't look up from his cereal. 'you don't have to wear your favorite socks, Tess. No one's going to interview you.''

''who are 'the people''

1. Tess and Theo
2. Mrs. Biedermann
3. The other contest candidates
4. The interviewers

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