May 10, 2016
Reading comprehension: Passage 25 — A Hotel That Melts (Places and Events)
- Read the passage aloud.
- A Hotel That Melts
You can stay in a hotel above the Arctic Circle. The hotel is in Sweden. You cannot go back to the same hotel the next year. You can’t because the hotel will have melted. How can this be?
A new hotel is made every year. The hotel is carved out of ice. The hotel has about sixty rooms. All the rooms and hallways are ice. Beds and chairs are carved out of ice. People are served drinks in glasses carved from ice.
How do people stay warm? Beds and chairs are covered with reindeer skin blankets. People are given jumpsuits. They are also given body bags. The body bags were developed for astronauts walking on the moon.
- A Hotel That Melts
- Asses your understanding of the passage by responding to the comprehension questions.
- Stay is to go as . . . .
- above is to served
- above is to carved
- above is to developed
- above is to below
- What is not true about the ice hotel?
- It is below the Arctic Circle
- It melts every year
- It is in Sweden
- It has about sixty rooms
- You can only get a room in the ice hotel in . . . .
- spring
- winter
- fall
- summer
- Stay is to go as . . . .
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