Elementary English Reading Comprehension Exercise 3

This third elementary level English reading exercise comes with a reading paragraph for comprehension and 5 multiple choice reading questions to assess your comprehension skills. You cannot skip any question and have to answer all of them. When you finish this online English reading test, you will see your results.

A1 Level English Reading Comrehension Exercise for Beginners

Read the text and choose the best answer to each reading question.

One day when I was six, my mother took me and my brother to the airport to pick up my grandma. I had brought some of my Barbie dolls to play with while we waited. When we got there, I saw another little girl. We started playing and after some time she asked me why I didn’t have any black dolls. I just looked at her and we kept playing. When we left the airport and were driving home, I asked my mom about what the girl had asked me. “Why did she want to know if I had black dolls?” My mom explained to me that she was from different background from mine and probably had black-skinned dolls at home instead of white-skinned ones like mine. That was when I realized that there were different people who grew up differently from me.

1. What does “background” mean?

 
 
 
 

2. Why did the narrator just look at the little girl when she asked about the doll?

 
 
 
 

3. Why did the narrator have Barbie dolls?

 
 
 
 

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

 
 
 
 

5. What can we infer about the little girl at the airport?

 
 
 
 

Question 1 of 5

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Summary: Elementary English Reading Exercise 3 (A1 level reading text + multiple choice reading questions with answers)