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CLEANING YOURSELF

Luz said, “I am clean and pretty.

I wash my face.I put on a clean dress.I trim my nails.I comb my hair.Look at me.Am I not pretty?”

1. Who is talking?A. MotherB. LuzC. A boy

2. What does she do with her face?A. She washes it.B. She combs it.C. She cuts it.

3. What does she do with her nails?A. She cleans it.B. She trims it.C. She washes it.

4. What does she do with her hair?A. She cleans it.B. She combs it.C. She washes it.

5. What does she say?A. “I am clean and pretty.”B. “I am big and strong.”C.“I am strong and healthy.”

Vocabulary:

trim pretty dress

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FLOWERS

The sampaguita is a flower. It is white and it smells sweet. The sampaguita is our national flower. The gumamela is a flower too. It does not smell sweet. Some gumamela flowers are red. Some are pink and some are white.

1. Which is our national flower?A. SampaguitaB. GumamelaC. Rose

2. How does the sampaguita smell?A. BadB. SweetC. No smell

3. Which flower does not smell sweet?A. CamiaB. SampaguitaC. Gumamela

4. Which is not a flower?A. ButterflyB. GumamelaC. Sampaguita

5. Is there a white gumamela?A. YesB. NoC. Did not say

Vocabulary:

National camia sweet

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OUR SCHOOL

Our school is big. It is beautiful. We have a flag in front of our school. We have a garden in our school, too. Our school is clean. We help clean our school.

1. What does the story tell about?A. HouseB. SchoolC. Garden

2. Which word tells about the school?A. SmallB. DirtyC. Beautiful

3. What do we do to make our school clean?A. Play insideB. Help cleanC. Put plant

4. What do we have in front of our school?A. FlagB. HouseC. Store

5. What else has our school?A. GardenB. FlowersC. Grass

Vocabulary:

beautiful flag garden

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SHELLFISH

“Mother, what’s this?” Sherbet asked

showing a shell she found on the beach.

“That is an empty home of a small

animal called shellfish. Shellfish has soft body

so it needs hard shell to protect it from

starfish, crabs, fish or even birds.”

1. Who found a shell?A. MotherB. SherbetC. Fisherman

2. Where did she find the shell?A. On the beach

B. In the seaC. In the yard

3. What animal lived in the shell?A. FishB. CrabC. Shellfish

4. What kind of body does a shellfish have?A. HardB. SoftC. Hairy

5. What sea animal eats shellfish?A. FishB. DogD. Cat

Vocabulary:

beach shell protect--------------------- Exercise 5 --------------------

GUESS

“Can you guess who I am?”

asked Tito.

“I teach children.

I teach them to read and write.

I teach them to be good.

I teach them how to be polite and

helpful.”

1. Who is talking in the story?A. TitoB. BrotherC. Father

2. What did he ask the other children to guess?A. What he is

B. Where he isC. Who he is

3. What does a teacher teach in school?A. Jump and runB. Sleep and playC. Read and write

4. What else does she teach in school?A. How to eatB. How to cross the streetC. How to be good

5. What else does she teach the children?A. To watch TVB. To be polite and helpfulC. To go home

Vocabulary:

guess polite helpful

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BUSY CHILDREN

It was Saturday.

“Let us clean the house,”

said Gloria.

“I will clean the yard,” said Nilo.

“I will pull out the grass.

I will sweep the yard.

I will burn the dry leaves.”

“I will water the plants,” said Lina.

1. What day was it?A. MondayB. SaturdayC. Friday

2. Who asked that they clean the house?A. Nilo

B. MotherC. Gloria

3. What will Nilo do?A. He will clean the garden.B. He will help clean the house.C. He will clean the yard.

4. What will Nilo do with the grass?A. Water themB. Plant themC. Pull them out

5. Who will water the plants?A. LinaB. NiloC. Gloria

Vocabulary:

sweep pull outyard burn

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FLYING KITES

“Let us fly our kites,” said Celo.“It is good to fly kites now.The wind will help us fly our kites.”The boys made their kites fly.They had blue kites, red kites,green kites and yellow kites.Their kites went up, up in the sky.They looked like birds up in the sky.

1. Who asked the boys to fly kites?A. CeloB. CelsoC. Cenon

2. What helped them fly the kites?A. Wind

B. RainC. Clouds

3. What are the colors of the kites?A. White, black, orangeB. Green, white, yellowC. Blue, red, green, yellow

4. Where did the kites fly?A. Up in the skyB. Up on the treesC. Up on the houses

5. What did the kites look like?A. BirdsB. CloudsC. Sheep

Vocabulary:

wind went

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THE RAIN

It is raining.

“It is raining hard,” said Lani.

The rain is falling on the houses.

The rain is falling on the trees.

There is water on the streets.

“I will not go to school today,”

said Tita.

“I might catch cold.”

1. Who will not go to school?A. TitaB. LaniC. A girl

2. Why will she not go to school?A. It is cold.B. It is raining.C. It is warm.

3. What filled the streets with water?A. WindB. CloudsC. Rain

4. Where is the rain falling?A. On houses and treesB. In the classroomC. In the garden

5. Why will Tita not go to school?A. She may catch cold.B. She has no umbrella.C. She will play.

Vocabulary:

hard cold--------------------- Exercise 10--------------------

THE UGLY DUCKLING

Mother Duck sat on her eggs to hatch.

One morning, the eggs began to crack.

Five pretty chicks came out of their shells.

But one egg had not hatched.

So Mother Duck sat down to wait.

Then the egg finally cracked.

Out came a chick with ugly feathers.

That chick was not a duckling.

It was a beautiful swan when it grew up.

1. What did Mother Duck do?

A. Sat on her eggsB. Swam in the pondC. Played with her chicks

542. Why did Mother Duck sit on her eggs?

A. To hide themB. To crack themC. To hatch them

3. How many eggs were hatched first?A. FourB. FiveC. Six

4. What kind of chick came out last?A. Beautiful ducklingB. Big ducklingC. Ugly duckling

5. When it grew up, the ugly duckling was actually a ____________.A. Mother henB. wild turkeyC. beautiful swan

Vocabulary:

Hatch cracked swan--------------------- Exercise 9 --------------------

HOW TO BE BIG AND STRONG

Berto is big and strong.He eats good breakfast before he goes to school.He drinks milk.He eats vegetables, too.He plays in the yard.These things help Berto become big and strong.

1. Who is the boy in the story?A. TitoB. BertoC. Lito

2. Which one tells about him?

A. He is big and strong.B. He is small and thin.C. He is lazy.

3. What does Berto eat before he goes to school?A. A good dinnerB. A good breakfastC. A good supper

4. What other things make Berto big and strong?A. Milk and vegetablesB. Coffee and candyC. Milk and coffee

5. Where does Berto play?A. In the houseB. In the yardC. Under the sun

Vocabulary:

strong yard vegetables

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VEGETABLES

“Look, Father,” shouted Leon.

“Our beans have fruits.

Our patola plants have fruits, too.”

“Let us pick some of the,”

Father said.

“We shall sell them in the market.

Mother will cook some, too.”

1. Who saw the fruits of the beans and the patola?A. LeonB. FatherC. Mother

2. What will they do with the fruits?

A. They will eat all of them.B. They will sell some and eat some.C. They will give them away.

3. What will Mother do with some of the fruits?A. Give them awayB. Cook themC. Throw them away

4. What does Father want to do?A. He wants to water the vegetables.B. He wants to pick some of the fruits.C. He wants to eat the vegetables.

5. Where will Father take the vegetables?A. To the storeB. To the kitchenC. To the market

Vocabulary:

shouted pickfruits sell

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OUR FRIENDS

I love to see the birds fly.

I love to hear their pretty songs.

Birds are our friends.

They eat harmful insects

on our plants.

They are very pretty.

They make us happy.

We must be kind to birds.

1. What do we love to see?A. Birds

B. ChickensC. Geese

2. What do birds do?A. They talk.B. They fly.C. They swim.

3. What do we love to hear?A. Birds’ songsB. Birds’ talkC. Birds’ call

4. What do birds do for us?A. They make us sad.B. They make us happy.D. They make us angry.

5. How do birds help us?A. They eat sweet fruits.B. They eat harmful insects.C. They eat green plants.

Vocabulary:

pretty insectsharmful kind

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BE KIND

Tito and Belen were going home.Tito saw a nest.It has three little birds.I will take the birds home,” said Tito.“No, Tito,” said Belen.“For sure, the mother bird will look for her baby birds.Do not take them away.”

1. What did Tito see?A. A hen’s nestB. A bird’s nestC. A duck’s nest

2. How many little birds were there?

A. FourB. ThreeC. Two

ccz

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HELPING OUR COUNTRYMEN

“Let us go to Heng’s store,” said Cora.

“I will buy a pencil.”

“Heng is a Chinese.

Aling Maria is a Filipino.

We should buy from Filipino stores.

We should help Filipino sellers,”

Delia said.

1. What did Cora want to buy?A. BookB. PencilC. A bag

2. Where would she buy a pencil?

A. At Heng’s storeB. At the marketC. At Aling Maria’s store

3. Who wanted to buy at Aling Maria’s store?A. CoraB. The childrenC. Delia

4. Where should we buy the things we need?A. From Chinese storesB. From Filipino storesC. From any store

5. Whom should we help?A. Chinese sellersB. Filipino sellersC. Old sellers

Vocabulary:

Chinese countrymensellers