Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic Answer Key
Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 1 Answer Key
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 2 Answer Key
- The weaverbird makes a huge apartment-like nest whereas the sparrow makes a small, untidy nest.
- They need huge masses of leaves, grass and twigs to build their nests.
- There are sixty or more weaverbirds in a regular flock
- Two weaverbirds live in a single nesting chamber
- They live in colonies.
- They can house more than one hundred weaverbird families.
- They are unusual because they look like wine flasks.
- The widowbirds do not build nests.
- They lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
- The birds which have the widowbird's eggs laid in their own nests look after them.
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 3 Answer Key
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 4 Answer Key
- Organic food is grown or produced without the use of any pesticide, additive genetically modified organism and preservative.
- Organic food contains a higher level of Vitamin C and cancer-fighting antioxidants and is more nutritious.
- Food grown or produced by conventional methods may use pesticides, additives or genetically modified organisms and is usually processed with preservatives.
- Artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers are not used, reducing water and air pollution.
- The word is "delicious" / "tasty".
- They are long production period / lower produce / high production cost leading to high pricing.
- Organic food farmers will need to pay more attention and increase labor in the farming process./ Their produce is usually lower in volume as compared to the other farmers.
- Farmers find that more time and money have to be invested in return for a lower produce.
- A consumer views organic food as healthy, environmentally friendly, palatable yet expensive.
- The do so for health reasons / because it is healthier / more environmentally friendly / tasty.
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 5 Answer Key
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 6 Answer Key
- He was a farmer.
- This means that the farm was on the edge of the town.
- He could not grow crops on his barren and useless farm.
- It was found on his property.
- He bought it so that he could show it off to everyone in town.
- The sentence is "The old man would do so just to show off his new car."
- To run "into anybody" means to knock someone down, whereas to run "over anybody" means to drive over someone.
- He did not know how to drive or that the car could move without horses pulling it.
- The sentence is "He did not know that when the engine was switched on, the car could be more powerful than the two horses".
- He used two horses to pull his car.
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 7 Answer Key
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 8 Answer Key
- She helped the poor and the infirm.
- The word is 'dedicated.'
- They suffered from famines and earthquakes.
- She chose to live among the poor and sick instead of just giving others instructions to carry out her work for her.
- She helped poor children who were unable to get an education.
- Some of them were suffering from terminal diseases. As for some others‚ the owners of the homes were afraid of catching the diseases that they had.
- 'Terminal diseases' refer to illnesses that cannot be cured and will lead eventually to death.
- A large number of people needed her help.
- She helped children who had been abandoned by their parents or whose parents had died.
- They could get it from food centers.
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 9 Answer Key
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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic
Exercise 10 Answer Key
- Over one hundred nations are involved in the present Olympic Games.
- They were held in Greece.
- It was the marathon.
- It was named after the place from which a Greek runner brought news of a victory to Athens.
- It was America.
- Russia made her first appearance in the 1952 Games held in Helsinki.
- They were allowed to participate in the Games in 1924.
- Men are physically stronger than women.
- It was held in 2006.
- The sentence is "They are achieving standards comparable to those of the men."
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Reading comprehension is a critical component of reading instruction for all students. Let's Target Comprehension provides opportunities for students to closely read a range of complex text that covers different content-area topics, respond to text-dependent questions, and improve comprehension. Help students: Apply comprehension strategies to different types of texts Encourages higher-level and critical thinking skills Develop comprehension with text-dependent questions.