Reading Instructions
To be discussed with students before the test
1.
You must READ the whole reading passage carefully, including diagrams etc.
BEFORE you start answering any questions.
2.
All questions must be completed on your own.
3.
Once you have read a passage and have started the questions, you should
attempt as many questions on that passage as you can. You may find some
questions a bit tricky. Don’t spend too much time on these questions. Go on
and try another question because you will find others that you can do.
4.
For MULTIPLE CHOICE questions, SHADE the bubble to show the correct
answer.
Example: What time of day was Rufus caught in a dust storm?
5.
A.
Late afternoon
B.
At midday
C.
In the night
D.
At night
For OPEN-ENDED questions, WRITE the correct answer in the space
provided. Remember to write in sentences when required.
Example: List all the ingredients needed to make a banana thick
shake.
icecream, milk and banana
6.
For ORDERING questions, WRITE the numbers 1 - 4 in each of the boxes.
Remember that number 1 is first and 4 is last.
Example: Number this information 1 - 4 as it is given in the passage.
3
The round front door led into the hall.
1
There were plenty of pegs for visitors to hang their hats
and coats
2
There were many different kinds of rooms in the hobbit’s
house.
4
Many doors opened off both sides of the tunnel.
7.
WRITE all the answers in this booklet. If you make a mistake and want to
change an answer, make sure that you carefully RUB or CROSS out the
wrong answer and then circle or write the correct answer.
8.
There are no penalties for incorrect spelling or grammar. However, you
should
9.
*
take care with your spelling especially when using words from the text.
*
write neatly.
*
always check your answers.
If you complete this work ahead of time, make sure you go back and recheck
your answers carefully. When you have done this, find a quiet activity to do.
Remember, don’t disturb the students who are still working on their test.
10. Good luck and do your best.
The Hobbit
In a hole in the ground there lived a
hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole,
filled with the ends of worms and
an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare,
sandy hole with nothing in it to sit
down on or to eat: it was a hobbit
hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfect round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass
knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a
very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and
carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and
coats – the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but
not quite straight into the side of the hill – The Hill, as all the people for many miles
round called it – and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and
then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars,
pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes),
kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage.
The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only
ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and
meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.
This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins. The Bagginses
have lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people
considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but
also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could
tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
This extract is taken from The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Band 3/ESL L5-6
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What did the local people call the place where Baggins had his
home?
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With what does the author compare the hobbit’s front door?
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How does the author tell us that food and clothes were very
important to the hobbit?
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Which phrase does the author use to tell us that the Bagginses had
lived in The Hill neighbourhood for a very long time?
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Why wouldn’t people ask the Bagginses any questions?
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Literacy Practice Test
Band 3/ESL L5-6
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Band 3/ESL L5-6
Read The Hobbit and answer the questions.
Give two reasons why the people of The Hill consider the
Bagginses to be a respectable family.
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What sort of hobbit was Baggins?
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Shade one
bubble.
Rich and adventurous
Well-to-do and exciting
Friendly but predictable
Respectable but shabby
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What evidence is there in paragraph 2, to prove that the hobbit was
very well-to-do? Give four phrases used in the text.
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What does this passage mainly describe?
Baggins’ home and his family.
Baggins’ home and his belongings.
Baggins’ home and the countryside.
Baggins’ home and neighbourhood.
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Literacy Practice Test
Band 3/ESL L5-6
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Number these events (1-4) in the order they appear in the passage.
Many doors opened off both sides of the tunnel.
The round front door led into the hall.
There were plenty of pegs for visitors to hang their hats and
coats.
There were many different kinds of rooms in the hobbit’s
house.
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Literacy Practice Test
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