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READING

Long ago people spent most of their time

1. Why do you think people of long ago

spent most of their time looking
for food? EV

looking for food. They looked for nuts, fruit,

2. How did they catch wild animals?

Ll

roots, leaves and seeds and they hunted

animals. They caught wild animals in traps

3. Why did they sometimes eat

raw meat? lN

that they dug in the ground and they caught

4. Why did they use their teeth

and

hands to eat? lN

fish. They ate their food with their hands

and used their teeth to tear up the meat.

5. " ...they followed herdsof animals..."

What does herds mean? VO

They did not always have fire so they could

6.
not always cook their meat. They followed

the herds of animals that they liked to hunt.

Did these people live in only

one place?
How do you know that? lN

7. Do you think they had any tools?

Why do you think that? EV

They had to look in new places to find fresh

Do you think these people had an
easy life?
Why do you think that? RA

plants to eat.

ORAL READ'IVG ANALYS'S

READING

BEHAVIOURS
SPEED
HESITATIONS
OMISSIONS
INSERTIONS
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This is an oxtract from 7.he New Noah by Gerald Durrell,

published by Collins Publishers.

Feeding Puff
The first cage in the row belonged to a couple of baby red river hogs which I had
called Puff and Blow, and they were the most charming pair of babies
imaginable. A full-grown red river hog is about the most colourful and handsome
of the pig family. Its fur is a rich orange-red colour and along its back and neck
is a mane of pure white fur; on the tips of its long, pointed ears are two dangling
tufts of white hair. Puff and BIow, however, like all baby piglets, were striped;
they were a dark chocolate brown, and their stripes were a light buttercup yellow,
running from nose to tail. This made them look like fat little wasps, as they
trotted round their pen.
Puff was the firbt one to arrive at the camp. He was brought in one morning,
sitting rather sadly in a wicker basket balanced on the head of a native hunter.
He had been captured in the forest, and I soon discovered the reason for his
doleful appearance wasthat he had eaten nothing for two days, a thing that was
enough to make any self-respecting pig look down in the snout. The lrunter, who
had caught him, had tried to feed him on bananas but Puff was far too young for
that sort of food. What he wanted was milk, and plenty of it. So as soon as I had
paid for him, I mixed a big bottleful of warm milk with sugar, and taking Puff on
to my knees, I tried to make him drink. He was about the size of a Pekinese, with
very small hooves and a pair of sharp little tusks as well, as I soon found out to

my cost.
Of course, he had never seen a feeding bottle before, and treated it with the
gravest suspicion from the start. When I lifted him on to my knees and tried to
put the rubber into his mouth, he decided that this was sorq special kind of
torture I had invented for him. He screamed and squealed, kicking me with his
sharp little hooves and trying to stab me with his little tusks. After the struggle
between us had lasted for about five minutes, both Puff and I looked as though
we had been bathed in milk, but not a single drop of it had gone down his throat.
I filled another bottle and again grasped the squealing pig firmly between my
knees, wedged his mouth open with one hand and started to squirt the milk in
with the other. He was so busily squeaking for help that every time the milk was
squirted into his mouth, the next squeal would spit it all out again. At last I was
fortunate enough to get a few drops to trickle,down his throat, and waited for
him to get the taste of it, which he soon made apparent by stopping to yell and
struggle, and by starting to smack his lips and grunt. I dribbled a little more milk
into his mouth and he sucked it down greedily, and within a short while.he was
pulling away at the bottle as though he would never stop, while his tummy grew
bigger and bigger. At length, when the last drop had disappeared from the bottle,
he heaved a long sigh of satisfaction and fell into a deep sleep on my lap, snoring
like a hive full of bees.
After that he was no more trouble, and after a few days had lost all his fear of
humans, and would run, grunting and squeaking delightedly, to the bars of his
pen when he saw me coming, and flop over on his back to have his tummy
scratched. At feeding time, when he saw the bottle coming, he would push his
nose through the bars and scream shrilly with excitement, and, to hear him, you
would think he had never had a square meal in his life.

NAME

YEAR

Feeding Puff
The camp had a uumber of cages where the animals were kept. Iu the first
cage were
two baby red river hogs called Puff and Blow. Their fur was striped in
colours

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and .................................:............................ and

they had small hooves, pointed ears and sharp ............:......
When these animals grow to full size they
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have

fur

ercept on their backs where the fur is ..............

Puff was captured and carried in a ...........d.......

to the
by ............................... :.................. . The little animal was looking very
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eat but he.hadn't eaten them because he was
could only

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have.....:............ .:................. . So he prepared a bottle for

Puff. When the man held him puff began

to

...........:.......i.......*..

The first bottle $,as soon empty but the little hog was still struggling and
hadn't
. The man filled another botfle. This
time he managed to squirt milk into Pufi's mouth but every time the Iittle hog

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Puff stopped causing trouble and after 4 few more days he was no

longer.......
would
man with

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puff

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Key: Feeding puff

Item chocolate brown and buttercup yellow

chocolate and buttercup
1
brown and yellow

Item

too young for bananas

ig

a baby

too small
only a piglet
only used to milk

orange and red

red arrd yellow
pure white and yellow

Item

drinking milk
not allowed

tusts

thirsty

hooves and tusks

2
:

horns
i

hooves

teeth

Item milk
10 a bottle of milk
a drink

bananas

Item

rich orange red

orange

red

Item

11

kick
scream
squeal

brown
yellow
whitn
Item

think it was torture

try to get away

pure white

orange

red

scratch

treat with greatest suspicion

spit it out
cry

whitc
yellow
brown

Item

Item

12

wicker basket

got any

cage

had'enough
stopped struggling

a native hunter

Item

13

a hunter
head of a native hunter

it

eaten in two weeks

wanted to have some bananas

Item

bananas

it out

dribbled
bring it out
take it out
cqrne out
just wouldn't drink any

Item eaten for two days

fed

squealed

all the milk came out

a basket

eaten an5rthing
eaten
had any milk
been fed
enough food to eat

it out
it back out
pushed it out
spat

coughed

the woods
the forest

na(t any
tasted the milk

eaten

pen

swallowed a drop

drunk any milk

basket

bag

Item

struggle

Item

14

down his throat

into his stomach
down into his mouth
his throat
in

all over him

out
on the floor

Score Reys
Item tasted

15

Item flop on his back

lO
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it

drank some milk

found it was milk
swallowed

63

fail over

it

got some
got the milk

grunt
scream

poke his snout out

got fed
dribbled it down his throat
finished
had enough

Item

Item

scratch his tummy

20

tickle him
pat him
smack his tummy

struggling

sque.aling
16 .krcErng

notice him
feed him

'tryrng to get away

yelling

Item the bottle

rrl
i '

drinking
shouting

spitting milk out

Item

17
'.

the milk
his food
his meal

something
bananas and milk

getting fatter

to 9.9*

to bulge
to fill up

Item

22

to feel good
to feel tull

dinnertime
milk time
going to be fed
another square meal in his life

important to him

fiightened

.ltem
:18
afraid of humans

hungry
very ruce

shv
uh-happy

a nuisance

wild

SCORE EQUIVALENCE TABLE

Number Correct

TORCH Score

14

19

23

25

27

29

31

>7

Error

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10

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

33 35 36 38 39 41

43

44 46

4B

51

53

57 62

69

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LEVEL C
Read this fable about a bird and a caterpillar. Then answer questions about
the fable. Choose the best answer for Numbers I to l^2.

One day, a bird sat quietly in her nest. She was hungry, but she didn't
know what she wanted to eat.
'A juicy caterpillar would be tasty,' said the bird. So she went to look
for a caterpillar. She found one resting on the underside of an oak leaf. The
bird got ready to take a big bite.
'Piease let"me go,' said"the caterpillar. 'If you eat me, you will not have
a friend,' said the caterpillar
'I don't need a friend,' said the bird. 'I need a meal.'
(If you had a friend, you would have
someone to help you if you ever gor
in trouble,' pleaded the caterpillar.
The bird thought about what the caterpillar said. She didn't have any friends.
She didn't even know if she wantcd a friend. But she decided to let the caterpillar
go, just in case. Maybe she would need a friend someday. 'You won't be sorry'
said the caterpillar as the bird flew off.
Winter wai long and harsh. There was very little food. The bird was often hungry.
S.he thought.a.b9u1.1tr3.catfrpillar.from time to.tl-.: 'I could use a friend now,'
thought the bird. 'A friend would help me find food.'
_. !8.? spring arrived, the bird was weak with hunger. She couldn't get any food.
The bird thought she might die.
One day a Eeautifut bitterfly flew by the bird's nest. The butterfly could see
that the bird was not well.
'What do you want?' asked the curious bird.
'I've come to help you,' said the butterfly. 'I am your friend.'
'But I have no friends,' said the bird. 'Only a caterpillar that seems to have
forgotten all about me.'
'No, he hasn'tr' said the butterfly. 'I was once that caterpillar crawling
about the earth. Now I have wings and am a beautifirl butterfly.
I am still your friend.'
'And how can you help me now?' asked the bird.
'I can fly about and find some food. Then I can
bring it quickly to your nest. I will help you until
you are well again.'
The bird could not believe her ears. 'You have
saved the day!' she said.
'That's what friends are for,' said the butterfly,
as she flew away to find some food.

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