N5,N6,N8,N9 Reading Comprehension and Grammar Evaluation
Read the two passages (one from "Of Mice and Men" and one from "The Martian Chronicles") and answer the questions below them.  Then answer the questions in the grammar section.
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READING PASSAGE #1:  Excerpt from "Of Mice and Men"
George’s voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to."

Lennie was delighted. "That’s it - that’s it. Now tell how it is with us."

George went on. "With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don’t have to sit in no bar room blowin’ our jack jus’ because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us."
1) What does "work up a stake" mean in the first paragraph? *
1 point
2)  In the second paragraph, what does "poundin' their tail" mean? *
1 point
3)  In the third paragraph, what does "blowin' our jack" mean? *
1 point
4)  Why does George say that he and Lennie are different from most of the men who work on ranches?   *
1 point
READING PASSAGE #2:  Excerpt from "The Martian Chronicles"
They had a house of crystal pillars on the planet Mars by the edge of an empty sea, and every morning you could see Mrs. K eating the golden fruits that grew from the crystal walls, or cleaning the house with handfuls of magnetic dust which, taking all dirt with it, blew away on the hot wind.  Afternoons, when the fossil sea was warm and motionless, and the wine trees stood stiff in the yard, and the little distant Martian bone town was all enclosed, and no one drifted out their doors, you could see Mr. K himself in his room, reading from a metal book with raised hieroglyphs, over which he brushed his hand, as one might play a harp. And from the book, as his fingers stroked, a voice sang, a soft ancient voice, which told tales of when the sea was red steam on the shore, and ancient men had carried clouds of metal insects and electric spiders into battle.
5)  What grows from the walls of the house? *
1 point
6)  How does Mrs. K clean the house? *
1 point
7)  How does Mr. K read his book? *
1 point
8)  What is Mr. K's book about? *
1 point
GRAMMAR:  THE PRESENT PERFECT - "My Lucky Life"
In # 9-12,  put the words in the correct order.  All of the sentences are in the present perfect.  
9)  life  I    lucky   had   a   have *
1 point
10)  family   happy    my   healthy   been   and    has *
1 point
11)  loved   I   work   my   have *
1 point
12)  world   have   the   around   traveled   I *
1 point
For numbers 13-15, choose the option with  a correct sentence in the present perfect.
13)   Choose the correct sentence: *
1 point
14)  Choose the correct sentence: *
1 point
15)  Choose the correct sentence: *
1 point
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