Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:

I am thrilled that May is finally here! Now I can enjoy what I call “the sweet taste of
summer”! Watermelons are in the stores, and I plan to eat one every day for the next
three months. I think watermelons taste better than any other fruit. Peaches, plums, and
strawberries are also great in the summer. I enjoy eating those, too. But they just don’t
taste as good to me as a sweet, sweet watermelon. My whole family likes eating
watermelons. We ate at least three watermelons a week last year. This year, I am going
to eat watermelon every day, all summer long.

1. Why is the girl excited that May has arrived?

2. What is her favourite fruit?

3. How long will the watermelons be available?

4. What other summer fruits does the girl enjoy?

5. What is your favourite summer fruit? Why do you like this particular fruit?

Read the following passage and answer the questions:

It’s a rainy day at my house. It’s rainy and windy. The pretty fall leaves are flying in my
yard. They are beautiful. They are orange, red, brown, and gold. They are falling off the
trees in my yard. I like to watch the leaves fly. The rain and wind make the leaves come
off the trees. Soon the leaves will be all on the ground. I can help my mom and dad rake
them up. I like this time of year.

1. Where do you think the boy is when he is watching the leaves?

2. What colours of leaves did the boy see?

3. What season is it?

4. What made the leaves come off the trees?

5. The boy likes to watch the leaves fly. What is making the leaves fly in his yard?

6. What is the boy going to do when all the leaves are on the ground?

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:

Dana loves flowers. Her favourites are daisies, tulips, and daffodils. Tulips and daffodils
come up every spring, and daisies come up later in the summer. These plants are
perennials; they come up year after year.

Dana loves the spring because she can go to the flower market to buy her annuals. The
annuals only last one season, but they add a lot of colour to the garden. Dana got up
Saturday morning very early. She wanted to get to the market early so she would have
time to plant everything when she got home. Off she went to Barton’s Flower Market.
She ran into some friends.

“Hi, Dana,” they called out to her.

“Hi,” said Dana with a big smile. “Let’s look around together!” Dana and her friends saw
pansies, geraniums, periwinkles, and petunias.
“Oh, so many pretty flowers!” exclaimed Dana. “I love them all.”

Dana decided to buy red and yellow pansies, blue periwinkles, and purple petunias. That
will add a lot of colour to my garden, thought Dana. She said goodbye to her friends and
went home.

Dana happily began planting her new flowers around the tulips and daffodils. Dana was
so happy. She loved her flower garden, and she knew she would enjoy it all summer long.
Dana had a perfect day.

1. According to the story, Dana liked to

a. cook food from the garden

b. plant flowers in the garden

c. pull weeds from the garden

d. none of the above

2. Daffodils and tulips are

a. perennials

b. annuals

c. need to be planted each year.

d. none of the above

3. Annuals are flowers that

a. come up year after year

b. add colour

c. must be planted each spring

d. both b and c.

4. Dana bought

a. every flower at the market

b. tulips and daffodils

c. pansies, petunias, and periwinkles

d. none of the above

5. In this story, Dana’s mood was

a. sad

b. surprised

c. happy

d. all the above

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Once there lived a carpenter named Kasi. He had a five-year-old son. His name was Vasu.
Kasi’s father, Ramu, was too old, and he also stayed with them. Kasi began to think that
his father was of no use to him because he was too old to do any work. Kasi always
spoke angrily to his father. One day, Kasi gave food on a mud plate to his father. Being
too old, Ramu was not able to hold the mud plate. He dropped it down and broke it. Kasi
became very angry and scolded his father. Vasu observed this. The next day, Kasi gave a
new mud plate. He went out to work. When he came back, he saw the new mud plate
also broken into pieces. He scolded his father badly and warned him, “Old man, if you
break the next plate also, there will be no food for you”. Vasu was listening to his father’s
words. The next day, in the evening, when he came back home, he saw his son doing
some work with his carpentry tools. He was surprised to see this and happily went near
him; Kasi asked Vasu, “What are you doing, my son?” Vasu replied, “Dad, I am making a
plate of wood for you. When you become old, I will give you this wood plate so that you
will not break it and I need not send you out of the house.” Kasi realised his mistake and
apologised to his father for his mistakes. He never ill-treated his father after that.

1. Why did Kasi always speak angrily to his father?

2. Was Kasi right/wrong in being rude to his father? Give reasons.

3. Why did Vasu make a wooden plate? What lesson did he teach his father?

4. What moral do you get from this story?

5. Suppose you were Kasi; how would you have treated your father?

6. Suggest a suitable title for this story.