Lesson Quest Reading Inventory #12
3.0 - 6.0

The purpose of this reading inventory is to return a test score that directly correlates to the reading level of the student being tested.

Read the following selection and answer as many questions as possible in 3 minutes!

At the completion of the test, match the test score with the appropriate grade level listed at the bottom of the page.


This button will open the "Timer" window which will allow you to "Start" the timer. After you have started the timer, go to work on the Inventory. The timer will ask you to "Stop" when the time has elapsed.


Why Kill Flies?

Swat one male and one female fly in early spring and you will kill about 340,000,000,000,000 flies that they and their young would have produced by the end of the summer. Let live a spider which you are about to kill and it will keep from being born more flies than the stars you can see in a clear night. Or keep alive one bird or lizard, and you will have killed in like manner a billion time a billion flies. If there were no natural enemies of flies, the world would be covered with them.

Why kill flies? On their sticky feet and hairy bodies and in their sucking mouths they carry many million germs, and bring some forty kinds of disease. They are born in filth, and bring that filth to you.

So swat the fly! But better still, protect its enemies and clean up its breeding places.

1. Perfectly clean living conditions would prevent the spread of

flowers
health
disease
lizards

2. The fly is our

enemy
friend
destroyer
helper

3. The fly's body is

beautiful
hard
smooth
hairy

4. The feet of the fly are

long
pointed
sticky
satiny

5. With their mouths, flies

bite
suck
tear
break

6. In their mouths, flies carry

eggs
food
water
germs

7. What kind of insect have you just read about?

clean
filthy
dusty
white

8. What should you do to flies?

kill them
wash them
feed them
guard them

9. What should you do to most spiders? Let them

die
hang
live
bite

10. What are lizards to flies?

friends
enemies
alike
diseased


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