Reading skills test:

roger and tara are planning a day at the beach with their kids mark, kyle, and becca. roger packs a lunch for the family, with turkey sandwiches for everyone except kyle, who only seems to like peanut butter and jelly. tara is busy making sure that becca has her asthma inhaler, and that the family has enough sun screen to last the entire day. mark, the eldest, is his dad by packing the family van, and by securing the beach chairs to the roof.

who has asthma?

mark
kyle
becca
tara

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.