Vocabulary Workshop Level C Unit 9 Answers

Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic Answer Key

Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 1 Answer Key

1. a
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. d

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 2 Answer Key

1. The weaverbird makes a huge apartment-like nest whereas the sparrow makes a small, untidy nest.  
2. They need huge masses of leaves, grass and twigs to build their nests.
3. There are sixty or more weaverbirds in a regular flock
4. Two weaverbirds live in a single nesting chamber
5. They live in colonies.
6. They can house more than one hundred weaverbird families.
7. They are unusual because they look like wine flasks.
8. The widowbirds do not build nests.  
9. They lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
10. 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

1. c
2. b
3. d
4. a
5. a

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 4 Answer Key

1. Organic food is grown or produced without the use of any pesticide, additive genetically modified organism and preservative. 
2. Organic food contains a higher level of Vitamin C and cancer-fighting antioxidants and is more nutritious. 
3. Food grown or produced by conventional methods may use pesticides, additives or genetically modified organisms and is usually processed with preservatives. 
4. Artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers are not used, reducing water and air pollution. 
5. The word is "delicious" / "tasty".
6. They are long production period / lower produce / high production cost leading to high pricing. 
7. 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. 
8. Farmers find that more time and money have to be invested in return for a lower produce.
9. A consumer views organic food as healthy, environmentally friendly, palatable yet expensive. 
10. 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

1. a
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. d

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 6 Answer Key

1. He was a farmer.
2. This means that the farm was on the edge of the town.
3. He could not grow crops on his barren and useless farm.
4. It was found on his property.
5. He bought it so that he could show it off to everyone in town.
6. The sentence is "The old man would do so just to show off his new car."
7. To run "into anybody" means to knock someone down, whereas to run "over anybody" means to drive over someone. 
8. He did not know how to drive or that the car could move without horses pulling it.
9. The sentence is "He did not know that when the engine was switched on, the car could be more powerful than the two horses". 
10. He used two horses to pull his car.

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 7 Answer Key

 

1. a
2. b
3. c
4. b
5. a

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 8 Answer Key

1. She helped the poor and the infirm.  
2. The word is 'dedicated.'
3. They suffered from famines and earthquakes.
4. She chose to live among the poor and sick instead of just giving others instructions to carry out her work for her. 
5. She helped poor children who were unable to get an education.
6. 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. 
7. 'Terminal diseases' refer to illnesses that cannot be cured and will lead eventually to death. 
8. A large number of people needed her help.
9. She helped children who had been abandoned by their parents or whose parents had died. 
10. They could get it from food centers.

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 9 Answer Key

1. c
2. a
3. d
4. b
5. d

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Let's Target Comprehension Grade 6 Basic 

Exercise 10 Answer Key

1. Over one hundred nations are involved in the present Olympic Games.
2. They were held in Greece.
3. It was the marathon.
4. It was named after the place from which a Greek runner brought news of a victory to Athens. 
5. It was America.
6. Russia made her first appearance in the 1952 Games held in Helsinki.
7. They were allowed to participate in the Games in 1924.
8. Men are physically stronger than women.
9. It was held in 2006.
10. 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.