Reading Challenge Test Bank Book 3

Reading Challenge 3
Unit 7: Tweenbots

Instructions: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

All of the potato chips in the bag were __________ when the car ran it over.

(A) arrived
(B) aim
(C) routine
(D) smashed*

His gentle __________ made the injured rabbit come out of its hiding place to get help.

(A) terrorist
(B) manner*
(C) social
(D) inability

Many people now use a GPS to __________ the roads instead of using a paper map.

(A) rolling
(B) destination
(C) navigate*
(D) social

Joe’s ____________ to manage money always left him with no cash in the bank.

(A) helpful
(B) interested
(C) congested
(D) inability*

The large ___________ box was home to all sorts of rats, mice and snakes.

(A) strange
(B) creation
(C) cardboard*
(D) terrorist

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with words from the list.

social destination sidewalks navigate

smashed arrived congested inability
Kacie Kinzer is a researcher interested in a special ____________SOCIAL experiment. She designed the Tweenbot, a helpless little robot that needs to ____________NAVIGATE the rough ___________SIDEWALKS of New York city. Kinzer wanted to see how people would react to the vulnerable robot. She put the robot on the heavily __________CONGESTED city sidewalks to see if New Yorkers would assist the happy-looking Tweenbot to its final ____________DESTINATION or if they would ignore it. Surprisingly, all of the Tweenbots were taken care of and made it safely to where they were going.
Instructions: Read the passage and answer the questions.
Are you feeling down lately? Want to shake off that sadness and start to feel better about yourself? Then look no further than your neighborhood or community center! Several studies show that helping other people makes you feel great. Carolyn Schwartz, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, discovered something strange. She found that people who volunteered their time to help others reported having a better quality of life. Dr. Schwartz, however, is not the only researcher to have found that in helping others, we really help ourselves. Many other studies have shown that helping others and donating money, referred to as ‘altruism’, are responsible for a lot of positive influences in life. For example, one study showed that people who were altruistic when they were young lived longer. They also had happier lives. Another study showed that people who helped others were less worried and depressed. So next time, when you’re feeling a little blue, don’t plug in the iPod or Wii. Instead, see if your elderly neighbor needs some help with the trash. You’ll be helping her out and doing yourself a big favor.

Instructions: Choose the best answer.

What can be a good title for this reading?
(A) Feeling Sad and Depressed.
(B) Studying about Volunteering.
(C) Volunteering Can Improve your Mood *
(D) Donating Money and Altruism

What does the word “down” refer to in sentence 1?

(A) helpful
(B) excited or nervous
(C) unhappy or depressed*
(D) study

What should you do next time you are feeling a little sad?

(A) Plug in your iPod and listen to some great music
(B) Help someone else *
(C) Start some research
(D) Watch TV

Instructions: Write the answer based on information from the passage.

What happened to people who helped others when they were young?

They had _______ HAPPIER and _______ LONGER lives than people who didn’t.

What was an important conclusion from many research studies?

When we help others, we also ______ _________HELP OURSELVES.