May 8, 2016
Reading comprehension: Passage 7 — Wide and Narrow Streets (Places and Events)
- Read the passage aloud.
- Wide and Narrow Streets
Look at your street. Is it wide? Is it narrow? Read about other streets. Then see if your answer is the same.
One street is very wide. It is in Argentina. It is the main street of Buenos Aires. It is called 9 de Julio Avenue. (Argentina’s birthday is on July 9, 1816.) How wide is this street? It has twelve lanes! It is over 360 feet wide!
One street is very narrow. It is in Germany. It is in the city of Reutlingen. It is called Spreuerhof Street. It was built in 1727. A car can’t go down it. A bike can’t go down it. Two people can’t go down it at the same time. Some people have to turn sideways. Its widest part is twenty inches. Its narrowest part is just twelve inches.
- Wide and Narrow Streets
- Asses your understanding of the passage by responding to the comprehension questions.
- If two people were walking toward each other on Spreuerhof Street, . . . .
- they would have to watch out for cars
- they could pass each other on the street
- they would be in Reutlingen, Argentina
- one of them would have to go back
- How many cars can be side-by-side next to each other on 9 de Julio Avenue?
- six
- twelve
- zero
- nine
- Wide is to narrow as . . . .
- street is to avenue
- over is to under
- cry is to weep
- look is to see
- If two people were walking toward each other on Spreuerhof Street, . . . .
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