AL TARBIYAH AL NAMOUTHAJIYAH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Subject English Grade 7
Assessment Type Literature worksheet 1 Title No Dream Too High: Simone Biles
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Teacher: Ms.Asmaa
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Read the question carefully and select the best answer.
1. Which of these inferences about Simone Biles is best revealed by the passage below (from
the first paragraph)?
Biles smiled from ear to ear, revealing her braces.
A. Simone Biles is upbeat and easy to like.
B. Biles is young for the amount of experience and success she's had.
C. Braces are one of the many struggles that Simone Biles had to overcome.
D. Biles is is proud to have a gymnastics move named after her.
2. The following passage (paragraph 4) adds to the understanding of Biles’s development mainly by .
She also didn’t know how to control her immense power, often bounding up and back several feet
after landing tumbling passes.
A. explaining why Biles would have to build a career without being able to perfect the balance beam
B. showing how unnecessarily harsh critics were toward Biles early on in her career
C. suggesting how Biles took a weakness and turned it into one of her greatest assets
D. establishing what would be her signature tumbling technique throughout her Olympic run
3. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 7)?
Part of Biles’s natural talent also stems from her height or lack thereof. In some sports, height is an
advantage, but gymnasts benefit from being shorter. From 2000-2012, the four all-around gold medal
winners at the Olympics were between 5-foot and 5-foot-3. While that might seem short for most athletes,
Biles stands at just 4 feet 8 inches. Her height bothered her as a child. As she told Women’s Health, “it was
kind of a struggle being small since everyone would make fun of you,” but she’s glad she can show others
that they can be “short or tall” and become the best.
A. The all-around competition was previously better suited for the elegant Eastern Europeans.
B. Biles was expected to struggle in the all-around competition due to being under 5-feet.
C. Most fans do not realize just how short Gabby Douglas is.
D. Biles possessed a distinct physical advantage over even the highest-achieving gymnasts before her.
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4. Choose the sentence that best adds descriptive detail to the following passage (paragraph 8):
On her way to becoming a world champion, Biles faced tough decisions. In eighth grade, she was training 20
hours a week, far less than other elite gymnasts. If she wanted to be an Olympian, she would have to commit
more time to training. For Biles, that meant shifting to homeschooling and taking on more practices.
Traveling to competitions would be all business. A Texas Monthly story about Biles noted that when they
travel “gymnasts are sequestered—they stay in a different hotel from the one in which their families stay—to
reduce distractions. If they’re allowed out at all, it’s for carefully supervised visits to a tourist site or
megamall.” Still, Biles decided to make the switch. Afterwards, as she told Buzzfeed, “My hours ramped up
and we did beam and bars twice a day, which usually I had only done once a day.”
A. “Texas was also the site of the first nationals Biles would win.”
B. “Biles felt an extreme amount of pressure to become the first African-American to win the all-around gold
medal.”
C. “Biles was afraid that she couldn’t go back to being a normal teenager if her gymnastics career did not
work out.”
D. “Biles proved that being exceptionally tall was not the only way an athlete could be physically gifted.”
5. With which of the following statements would the author of this text most likely agree?
A. Biles is such an exceptional gymnast that it became almost impossible to for any other gymnasts to
compete at her level.
B. Biles attributes a good deal of her success to her close bond with Gabby Douglas.
C. Biles does not pick routines that have a high degree of difficulty, but she executes them with near
perfection.
D. Biles was almost kept out of Olympic competition due to her height.
6. Which of these inferences is best supported by the text?
A. Many leaders of USA Gymnastics are quietly hoping that Biles does not compete in 2020 so that other
gymnasts can have a chance.
B. Most of the other nations that Biles competes against have deeply-rooted racist beliefs.
C. Biles does not see a college degree as something that is necessary for her future success.
D. Changes to the gymnastics score system have helped Biles to flourish even more greatly.
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7.Match each vocabulary word with its corresponding synonym.
8.Order these events chronologically as they have occurred in Simone Biles’s life:
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9- What does the anecdote in the first paragraph mainly tell readers about Simone Biles? Use specific
evidence from the text to support your answer.
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10- To what particular qualities or skills does the author of the text attribute Simone Biles’s success?
Similarly, which qualities might prove to be her own worst enemy? Cite examples of both in your
response.
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Answer key
1. B. Biles is young for the amount of experience and success she's had.
2. C. suggesting how Biles took a weakness and turned it into one of her greatest assets
3. D. Biles possessed a distinct physical advantage over even the highest-achieving gymnasts before
her.
4. C. “Biles was afraid that she couldn’t go back to being a normal teenager if her gymnastics career did
not work out.”
5. A. Biles is such an exceptional gymnast that it became almost impossible to for any other gymnasts
to compete at her level.
6. D. Changes to the gymnastics score system have helped Biles to flourish even more greatly.
7.
8.
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9. The second paragraph tells readers several things about Simone Biles. The author reveals that Biles is
only sixteen and that she is about to win her first all-around world championship in gymnastics The
author is also able to help the readers see how talented Biles is when he describes her signature move
as “The Biles, a maneuver so exceptional that it was named after her.”
10. The author says that much of Simone’s success is due to her immense power and ability to perform much
more difficult tricks and skills than anyone else. Her height also helps her, because shorter gymnasts are
often more successful. Biles has struggled with the pressure of fame and anxiety about her performance. At
one competition she was so nervous that her coach had to take her out of the competition because the coach
was afraid Biles would get hurt.
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