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Communities: Past and Present

Questions: 5

Grade: 3

Words: 126

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Long, long ago, communities were smaller than they are now. People knew each other well and helped each other out. They would travel on horses or by walking, as there were no cars or buses. Children back then didn't have video games or cartoons. Instead, they would play outside, make toys from what they found, and had chores to do at home. Now, we have cars for traveling, phones for talking to people far away, and machines that help us do work faster. Children have more time for school and play because machines do some chores. But even though things have changed a lot, some things remain the same. In both past and present, communities are about people helping each other and sharing good times together.

Question 1

In the past, how did people usually travel?

By cars

By airplanes

By buses

On horses or by walking

Explanation. In the story, it mentions that people used to travel on horses or by walking.

By trains

Question 2

What is one thing children in the past and present have in common?

They both play video games

They both have chores to do at home

Explanation. The story mentions that children both in the past and present have chores to do at home.

They both travels in cars

They both use phones

They both watch cartoons

Question 3

What didn't children in the past have that children have now?

Video games

Explanation. The story mentions that children in the past didn't have video games, unlike children nowadays.

Horses

Homemade toys

Chores

Large communities

Question 4

What is the 'central idea' of the changes in communities?

Technology has taken over

People don't help each other anymore

Communities have grown larger

Traveling has become easier

Despite changes, communities are still about people helping and sharing good times

Explanation. At the end of the content, it states that regardless of the changes, communities are about people helping each other and sharing good times together.

Question 5

True or False: In the past, all work was done by machines.

True

False

Explanation. The story mentions that in the past, people didn't have machines to help with work, unlike today.

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