{"id":334,"date":"2014-09-27T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2014-09-27T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:36:06","slug":"6th-grade-reading-comprehension-exercise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/6th-grade-reading-comprehension-exercise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Grade Reading Comprehension Exercise 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Read the given passage and answer the following questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham youngs in which they both took great pride. One was Jim\u2019s gold watch that had been his father\u2019s and his grandfather\u2019s. The other was Della\u2019s hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across hers, Della would have let her hair hang out of the window someday to dry just to make the queen\u2019s jewels look dull next to it.<\/p>\n<p>So now Della\u2019s beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and covered her like a garment.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions<\/h3>\n<p>1. What were the two possessions of James Dillingham youngs?<\/p>\n<p>2. Give one word from the passage which means \u2018waterfall\u2019<\/p>\n<p>3. How is Della\u2019s hair described in the passage?<\/p>\n<p>4. Write the adjective form of the word \u2018pride\u2019<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. The two possessions were James\u2019s watch and Della\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p>2. Cascade<\/p>\n<p>3. Della\u2019s hair is described as a cascade of brown waters that shines and ripples.<\/p>\n<p>4. Proud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the given passage and answer the following questions. Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham youngs in which they both took great pride. One was Jim\u2019s gold watch that had been&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-comprehension","tag-reading-comprehension-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}