Arrange your papers with your name and grade on the first line; place the date and your room or teacher's name on the second line; leave the third line blank, and, beginning with the fourth line, number the lines from one to seven. This exercise is to help you to read quickly and accurately. See that you understand all the directions in each problem before you try to carry them out. On the other hand, work as quickly as you can.
1.How am I to sing your praise
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks
Reading picture story-books.
(Stevenson—"Picture Books in Winter.")
If this is a picture of play, draw a horseshoe on the first line. If it is a picture of quiet, draw a hitching-post.
2. The long war with the Danes had left England without law and order. Trade and commerce had almost ceased to exist. The monasteries and churches were in ruins and the schools nearly all destroyed.
Which of the words below best states the cause of this destruction?
Write your answer on the second line.
3. The axle in breaking had thrown the full weight of the heavy cart upon the body of the unconscious boy. Although there were many willing hands ready to help, none could lift the weight. Jean saw the crowd and hurried to the spot. Bracing himself, he placed his massive shoulders against the side of the cart. Slowly but surely it lifted and the child was drawn safely from beneath.
Which of the following words best describes Jean?
kind thoughtful strong brave good
Write your answer on the third line.
4. If you think after reading this paragraph that it is easy to land a trout, write the word hard on the fourth line. If you think it is hard, write the word easy there.
Trout fishing in mountain streams is said to be the greatest sport in the world. When a trout has been caught on the hook, it is usually a question of which will tire first, the fish or the fisherman. Often the fish will get the best of it and the fisherman be forced to go home with a broken rod and no fish for his pains.
5. If in the following words c is found with h more often than with r, write church on the fifth line. But if c is found more often with r, write crown there.
| checkers |
| cruller |
| bench |
| candy |
| crunch |
6. On the sixth line write any words in this sentence which have the same number of letters as the fourth word of the sentence, but which have no letters in common.
7. If a soldier wears out a pair of shoes every month, how many pairs of shoes will be needed for a regiment of 3000 men for a year of service?
Write the answer on the seventh line.
