More Advanced Reading Comprehension Tests - Years 8-10

(Written by Howard, P)

• 29 comprehension exercises designed to improve reading for understanding and vocabulary.

• Contents: long distance trains,
• the ballad of the drover,
• king Arthur,
• the birthday of the Infanta (young Spanish princess),
• Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar,
• how to play the harmonica,
• Barbara Frietchie,
• basketball,
• protozoa,
• the clipper ships,
• migrating birds,
• outback, 
• Oliver Twist,
• the age of machinery,
• young Gamelyn,
• William Shakespeare,
• the man with a nose,
• Hector in the Garden,
• Amphibians,
• Famous Greek Sculptors,
• the Law,
• economics,
• let's look at the sky,
• the death of Ben Hall,
• who was William the Conqueror?,
• inspiration,
• old-world Gods,
• a portrait of the artist as a young man' James Joyce,
• victory.
• Answers.