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READING COMPREHENSION Name

Date

Directions: Read the passage


from The Secret Garden, by Frances
Hodgson Burnett. Then answer
the questions on page 2.

The sun shone down for nearly a week on the Mary was an odd, determined little person, and now
secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary she had something interesting to be determined
called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the about, she was very much absorbed, indeed. She
name, and she liked still more the feeling that when worked and dug and pulled up weeds
its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where steadily, only becoming more pleased with her work
she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the every hour instead of tiring of it. It seemed
world in some fairy place. The few books she had to her like a fascinating sort of play. She found many
read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she more of the sprouting pale green points than she had
had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. ever hoped to find. They seemed to be starting up
Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a everywhere and each day she was sure she found tiny
hundred years, which she had thought was rather new ones, some so tiny that they barely peeped above
foolish. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, the earth. There were so many that she remembered
in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day what Martha had said about the “snowdrops by the
which passed at Misselthwaite. She was beginning thousands,” and about bulbs spreading and making
to like to be out of doors; she no longer hated the new ones. These had been left to themselves for
wind, but enjoyed it. She could run faster, and ten years and perhaps they had spread, like the
longer, and she could skip up to a hundred. The snowdrops, into thousands. She wondered how
bulbs in the secret garden must have been much long it would be before they showed that they were
astonished. Such nice clear places were made round flowers. Sometimes she stopped digging to
them that they had all the breathing space they look at the garden and try to imagine what it would
wanted, and really, if Mistress Mary had known it, be like when it was covered with thousands
they began to cheer up under the dark earth and of lovely things in bloom.
work tremendously. The sun could get at them and
warm them, and when the rain came down it could
reach them at once, so they began to feel very
much alive.

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Page 2
READING COMPREHENSION Name

Date

Directions: Refer to the passage


from The Secret Garden, by Frances
Hodgson Burnett, on page 1
to answer the questions below.

1. Name two or more things that Mary enjoys about the outdoors.

2. Complete the analogy. snowdrops : flowers ::


a. a cold winter wind : a warm summer breeze
b. grains of sand on the beach : stars in the sky
c. raindrops : budding plants

3. Match each word to its meaning.


astonished a flower organ, like a seed
determined surprised
intention growing
bulb plan
fascinating resolved or purposeful
sprouting interesting

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