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    ReadTheory.

    Org 2010

    Name________________
    Date________________

    EnglishForEveryone.Org 2008

    I Fly
    Reading Comprehension Short Stories

    Directions: Read the story. Then answer the questions below.

    I fly airplanes for a living.


    I am a pilot.
    Sometimes I take my little girl with me.
    Her name is Bristol.
    Bristol likes to look out the window of the airplane.
    She likes to look at the clouds.
    She thinks the clouds look like animals.
    She points at one with her finger.
    "I see a giraffe!" she says.
    I also have a little boy.
    My little boy does not like to be up high.
    He does not come with me on the airplane.
    He likes to play airplane with me.
    We play airplane when I get home.
    We run around the yard. We wave our arms in the air. We make airplane noises.

    Questions:
    1) Who is telling this story?
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    Bristol
    a little boy
    a pilot
    a friend

    3) Bristol points at something outside


    the window. What does she point
    at?
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    a giraffe
    her dad
    a cloud
    a tree

    2) What does Bristol like to do in the


    airplane?
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    look out the window


    run in the yard
    sit in the back
    be the pilot

    4) Why doesn't the little boy like to fly?


    A. because he is very young
    B. because he is very little
    C. because he doesnt like
    airplanes
    D. because he is afraid to be up
    high

    Answers and Explanations


    1) C
    A pilot is telling this story. At the beginning of the story, the narrator (the
    person who tells the story) says, I fly airplanes for a living. I am a pilot. The
    narrator is the same person throughout the story. Therefore (C) is correct.
    The story does not contain information to support answer choices (A), (B),
    and (D). Therefore they are incorrect.
    2) A
    In paragraph 2, the narrator talks about being in the airplane. He says that
    Bristol, his daughter, likes to look out the window of the airplane. Therefore
    (A) is the correct answer. The story does not contain information to support
    answer choices (B), (C), and (D). Therefore they are incorrect.
    3) C
    In paragraph 2, Bristol looks at the clouds outside the airplane. According to
    the narrator, she thinks the clouds look like animals, and points at one of
    them. Here, it is important to understand that, although the cloud looks like an
    animal (a giraffe), is it not actually an animal. The cloud is still a cloud.
    Therefore, when the narrator says that Bristol points at one of them, she is
    not pointing at an animal, but rather, she is pointing at a cloud. Therefore (C)
    is the correct answer.
    In paragraph 2, Bristol points at a cloud and says, I see a giraffe! Here she
    means that the cloud looks like a giraffe. It is not really a giraffe. Therefore (A)
    is incorrect. The story does not contain information to support answer choices
    (B) and (D). Therefore they are incorrect.
    4) D
    In paragraph 3, the narrator talks about his little boy. He tells us that his little
    boy does not like to be up high. For this reason, the little boy does not like to
    come with his father (the pilot and narrator) in the airplane. Therefore (D) is
    correct.
    We do not know if the boy is very young. We also do not know if this is the
    reason he does not like to fly. Therefore (A) is incorrect. Although the narrator
    says, I also have a little boy, we do not know if he is very little. We also do
    not know if this is the reason why he does not like to fly or not. Therefore (B)
    is incorrect. We do not know if the boy likes airplanes or not; the narrator
    does not talk about this. All we know is that the boy does not like to be up
    high. Therefore (C) is incorrect.

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