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Name ______________ Score_________/40 Part one: Passage one: Words: 169 Readability: 4.7 Saving Stamps for Fun Do you ever send letters to your friends? Before you mail a letter, you must put a stamp on the envelope. But some people save stamps instead of putting them on letters. These people are called stamp collectors. Stamp collectors save stamps for many reasons. Many people collect stamps just because stamps are pretty. Some stamps have pictures of birds and animals on them. Other stamps have pictures of great people. Stamps can be many shapes, too. Some stamps look like triangles or stars. One country even makes a stamp shaped like a banana. Other people save old stamps. Old stamps sometimes are worth a lot of money. Stamps with mistakes on them are worth a lot of money, too. People who save these kinds of stamps may spend a thousand dollars to buy just one stamp! But collecting stamps doesn’t have to cost you too much money. When you get a letter, you can save the stamp on the envelope. Then you will be a stamp collector, too. Another good title for this passage is ______ (1’) a) Stamps Are Fun to Save b) Stars and Triangles c) Many Letters Underline the right answers.(1’) Stamp collectors save (letters, stamps). Some stamps with (milkshakes, mistakes) on them are worth a lot of money. Answer questions with complete sentences. (3’) What are on some stamps to make them pretty? _______________________________________________________________ Who are stamp collectors? _______________________________________________________________ How do we collect stamps without spending a lot of money? _______________________________________________________________ Passage two: Words: 225 Readability: 3.8 The Wise Monkey and the Ogre Once in India, there was a magic forest. In the middle of the lake in this forest lived a terrible ogre. Whenever any animal tried to drink from the lake, the ogre would jump out and go