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Reading Passages

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  1. How many steps did Mr Alder climb to the lamp room?
  2. Why did Mr Alder light the lamp?
  3. 'It shone like a diamond.' What type of language is this?
  4. What does the word 'reef' most likely mean in the passage?
  5. What did Mr Alder do after he spotted the tiny light?
  6. What can you infer about the fishermen from the passage?
  7. Which title best suits the passage?
  8. What is the main job of the queen bee?
  9. Which bees do most of the work in the hive?
  10. What does the length of the waggle dance tell the other bees?
  11. In the passage, what does the word 'patch' mean in 'a good patch of flowers'?
  12. What is the only job of the drones?
  13. Why are bees important to farmers, according to the passage?
  14. What is the author's main purpose in this passage?
  15. What did Victorian pupils write on instead of paper?
  16. How did children learn spellings and times tables?
  17. Until what age did the 1880 law make school compulsory?
  18. What does the word 'compulsory' mean?
  19. Why might children have left school at ten or eleven?
  20. What does the last sentence suggest about Victorian schools?
  21. Which of these could get a child punished at a Victorian school?

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