May 10, 2016
Reading comprehension: Passage 28 — Underground Cities (Places and Events)
- Read the passage aloud.
- Underground Cities
There are some old cities in Turkey. Some of the cities are over 2,000 years old. No one lives in these cities today, but people still visit them. Why do people want to see them? The cities are under the ground.
The cities had kitchens. They had meeting rooms. They had places to store cereal. They had stables. They even had air vents or chimneys. The air vents made it so it was safe to breathe more than one hundred feet under the ground. They kept fresh air flowing through the rooms.
The cities had locking stones. The stones could only be opened or closed from the inside. The locking stones were used to keep the people safe inside the cities.
- Underground Cities
- Asses your understanding of the passage by responding to the comprehension questions.
- A vent is . . . .
- a chimney that does not allow air to pass
- an opening or meeting room under the ground
- a chimney that is only used for smoke
- an opening or way of letting something out
- Where are the underground cities?
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Tanzania
- Locking stones might have been used when people needed . . . .
- to visit
- to grow cereal
- air
- to hide
- A vent is . . . .
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