English Comprehension: Easy Test 1
20 questions · 25 minutes
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Example questions from this paper
A preview of the wording. The answer options and full explanations appear once you begin.
- Where does the passage take place?
- ‘grey with tiredness but content’ (line 5) What does this tell us about the grandfather?
- ‘The light was a promise, he told her, and a promise must be kept.’ (lines 5–6) What did the grandfather mean?
- Why has the author mentioned that the gulls went inland? (lines 8–9)
- ‘with a slow, deliberate anger’ (line 10) What is another way of saying ‘deliberate’?
Before you begin, remember
- For a vocabulary question, reread the sentence around the word and substitute your suggested meaning to see whether it still makes sense.
- Read the whole passage before looking at the questions, then go back to find each answer. Skimming for keywords alone misses the inference questions entirely.