English 2005 reading comprehension levels 4-7

1. For the hope of the American Dream. 1mark

2. It is showing that the passengers are high in the sky; below them, everything was to scale.

3. a.?
B. they needed to go there for health and safety.

4. A. To explain the story of the Ellis Island before its business closed down.
B. To give the reader facts about what it still has from the time when the centre was still
open.

5. It makes the reader interested in the new arrival experiences by saying that many people
travelled to America in pursuit the American dream; it also says that the passengers see the
whole of the united kingdom below them and they loom over the city in high mountain
range meaning that you could see the whole of America.

The writer described the museum as well ordered and beautifully laid out and it makes the
reader visualise that the museum is what you wished it to be designed and the voices of the
past giving the reader that parts of the past of the place exist; it also says that the place was
filled with abstracts from the past such as The registry room now contains only a few
inspectors desks and American flags

It has played an important role to register and allow the immigrants into America.

6. A. The broadening waters
B. along empty stretches

7. The trees look very big and were very tall
8. It says that they people on the boat went around still bends round the still bends.
It also said that there are hollowing clasps echoing echoing in hollow claps
There were loads and loads of trees Trees, trees, millions of trees

9. The surroundings of the area was impenetrable giving the reader that going through the
forest is going to be hard; it also says that there was no sunshine giving an impression that
the texts title is heart of darkness.

The text also said about the sight that the trees were dominant, big and high giving the
reader an impression that the trees are extremely high that he doesnt know where the tree
ends; it also addressed about the echoing in hollow claps, giving a meaning to the reader
that the claps heard in the forest are like the sign of evil.

This puts the reader in the narrators socks that the experience of going through the forest is
unrestful and noisy dream

10. A. she could not speak English properly.
B. she went to school to study English literature.
11. Fatima said that when someone is in a certain country for a period, you forget the language
and customs of your original country.
Fatima said when you are used to the customs of a country; you have to go back to your
other country with means you will be a foreigner again.

12. It means she can see other cultures and meeting new people; also learning the languages.
13. A. to describe how helpful and admirable the teacher was.
B. it shows how Maria felt when she was able to speak Spanish.

14. 1. they both struggled learning different languages
15. 2. after a while, they got used the languages of the other countries