THE HUNGRY MOUSE

The Hungry Mouse

A mouse was having a very thought time. She had no food for many days and made strenuous efforts got her food. All her efforts went in vain. She looked everywhere to find her food. As the days pass by. she became very thin.

One day, the mouse found a basket with corns. She also noticed a tiny hole in the bas ket, which was sufficient enough to move her in. She easi ly moved inside the hole.

Since she had no foods for many days, she ate a large amount of corn. Without realizing her, she continuously ate more and more corns. She realized very later that she ate a lot more than she actually required. After eating a whole lot of corn, she became very fat!

Satisfied with corns, the fat mouse tried to come out of the basket through the small hole. Unfortunately, the tiny hole could not accommodate the big mouse!!!!

The mouse started screaming 'Oh god! Let me come out, how can I come out?"

A rat after hearing mouse's screaming voice from the basket, asked her what happened!

Mouse told the story and asked rat a solution. Rat told, "if you want to come out the basket, wait for sometime or even days to lose your all your fat until you grow thin."

...Mouse started to starve now but with lots of food to come out of the trap!...

Moral Lesson: Anything too much is good for nothing!

THE CROCODILE AND THE MONKEY

Crocodile and Monkey

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Once upon a time, there lived a gentle crocodile and on the nearby tree lived a very smart monkey. They were very good friends. Every day, the monkey would pluck some juicy apples for the crocodile. In the afternoon, the crocodile would swim to the center of the pond and pick some fishes for the monkey.

One day, the crocodile told her wife about his friend. She felt greedy and wanted to eat the monkey. She asked him to invite the monkey for lunch at their place where she would kill the monkey and eat his heart. The crocodile became very sad. Finally, he promised her to bring the monkey tomorrow.

The next day, the crocodile asked the monkey for a ride. He quickly sat on the crocodile's back. The crocodile told him that he had promised his wife that he would bring him as her lunch. The clever monkey told the crocodile that he left his heart with the apples on the tree. The kind crocodile swam back to the tree. As they came back, the monkey jumped off the crocodile's back and went into the jungle leaving the poor crocodile behind.

THE SPACE

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Grade 5 Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Read the short story. Then answer each question.

Space Based Astronomy

If you go to the country, far from city sights, you can see about 3,000 stars on a clear night. If your eyes were bigger, you could see many more stars. With a pair of binoculars, an optical device that effectively enlarges the pupil of your eye by about 30 times, the number of stars you can see increases to the tens of thousands. With a medium-sized telescope with a light-collecting mirror 30 centimeters in diameter, you can see hundreds of thousands of stars. With a large observatory telescope, millions of stars become visible.

It would seem that when it comes to observing the universe, the larger the instrument, the better. This is true up to a point, but there are limits-limits not imposed by technology but by nature itself.

Surrounding Earth is a life-sustaining atmosphere that stands between our eyes and the radiation that falls upon Earth from outer space. This radiation is comprised of a very broad spectrum of energies and wavelengths. Collectively, they are referred to as the electromagnetic spectrum. They range from radio and microwave radiation on the low energy (long wavelength) end through infrared, visible, ultraviolet, and x- rays to gamma rays on the high energy (short wavelength) end. Cases and other components of our atmosphere distort, filter, and block most of this radiation permitting only a partial picture, primarily visible radiation and some radio waves, to reach Earth's surface. Although many things can be learned about our universe by studying it from the surface of Earth, the story is incomplete. To view celestial objects over the whole range of the electromagnetic spectrum. it is essential to climb above the atmosphere into outer space.

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THE RIVER BANK

The Riverbank

Mole had been spring cleaning all morning. He swept and dusted and painted. He worked until his back ached and his arms were very tired. But spring was in the air outside, and it had made Mole restless. He suddenly threw down his broom and cried, "Forget spring cleaning!" Then he bolted out of his front door. He scraped and scratched upward through the dirt until at last his snout poked out into the sunlight and he was rolling in the warm grass of a huge meadow.

"This is far better than painting," he said to himself. The sunshine felt hot on his fur, but a soft breeze blew around him. After living underground for so long, he felt like shouting for joy to hear the birds singing. Delighting in the thought of spring without its cleaning, Mole made his way across the meadow until he reached the hedge on the other side.

He thought he could not be happier when, as he wandered along, he suddenly found himself at the edge of a river. He had never seen a river - a sleek and twisting, gripping thing that gurgled and then left with a laugh. Mole was enchanted by the gleams and sparkles, rustles and swirls, chatter and bubble of the great river. He trotted excitedly along the riverbank until he grew tired and decided at last to rest.

As he sat on the grass and gazed across the river, Mole noticed a dark hole in the opposite bank. Something bright and small twinkled down in the heart of it, vanished, then twinkled once more like a tiny star. Then it winked at him, and so Mole knew that it was an eye peering at him. Slowly, a small face began to grow around it, like a frame around a picture.

It was a brown, round, little face, with whiskers, small ears, thick, silky hair, and with the same

THE MAGICAL BOOK

A Magical Book

Sarah loved to read. She read novels and poems. She loved the beautiful descriptions and phrases. She loved reading work from poets and novelists. She didn't like video games or technology. She was on the basketball team, but she didn't like sports. Her parents made her play basketball. In fact, Sarah's parents made her do many things. But she didn't want to do those things. She just wanted to sit and read all day.

One day, a small book came in the mail. It was for Sarah. The book looked very special. It was printed on sheets of gold. Sarah began to read. The outline of the story was simple. It was about a magical place. Strange things happened there. One example from the book was about a boy who could control people. In one scene, he made his friends tell funny jokes.

Sarah loved the book. She read it all the time. Then something strange

happened. The book gave Sarah a special power. She could control other people. She was like the boy in the book. During one exam, she made her friend tell silly jokes. Her friend got in trouble.

After school, Sarah did not make a direct trip home. On the way, she went to the local store. She wanted to play more tricks on people. She caused problems. She made people fall down. She laughed and had fun.

Finally she left and started to walk home. Then she saw something. Her basketball coach was about to walk in front of a bus. He was looking the other way. She had to stop him! She used her power. She controlled him. She made him stop walking.

Sarah learned something that day. It was better to help people than make them suffer. So, she put a limit on how she used her power. She did not want to do bad things with it anymore. She only wanted to do good.

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