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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
READING PASSAGE 1
SNAKE BITES BOY
Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was napping yesterday in his cowboy outfit yesterday at his family's Fifth Ave. apartment when he shot up in bed screaming. A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake was coiled around his left arm and had just bitten his pinky.
"The baby-sitter freaked out," said Teddy's father, David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the reptile showed up about 4 p.m.
The horrified nanny called 911 and the building's doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped pry the snake off the boy's arm and stow it in a garbage bag, Lasry said.
Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where his parents said he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous.
It wasn't. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops took the critter, determined it was a non-venomous California king snake.
But how did it end up in Teddy's bed?
A little sleuthing determined that the serpent had escaped two weeks ago from …show more content…
She took the snake off Teddy's arm.
C. She called for help.
D. She called the television company.
2. What do we learn about the snake?
A. It was poisonous.
B. It had escaped from a zoo.
C. It was about a meter long.
D. It had escaped earlier in the afternoon.
3. Which of these statements is true?
A. Teddy was awake when the snake arrived.
B. Teddy's father was working and his mother was at home.
C. Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours.
D. The snake is used to being touched.
4. What does Teddy think now of the snake attack?
A. He was attacked because the snake was scared of him.
B. He was attacked because he was asleep.
C. He was attacked because the snake was hungry.
D. He was attacked because his parents weren't at
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
READING PASSAGE 1
SNAKE BITES BOY
Three-year-old Teddy Lasry was napping yesterday in his cowboy outfit yesterday at his family's Fifth Ave. apartment when he shot up in bed screaming. A 3-foot-long black-and-white snake was coiled around his left arm and had just bitten his pinky.
"The baby-sitter freaked out," said Teddy's father, David Lasry, who, along with his wife, Evelyn, was at work when the reptile showed up about 4 p.m.
The horrified nanny called 911 and the building's doorman. The doorman and two cable TV workers helped pry the snake off the boy's arm and stow it in a garbage bag, Lasry said.
Police rushed Teddy to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where his parents said he spent two hours attached to a heart monitor as a precaution in case the snake was poisonous.
It wasn't. Experts at the snakebite treatment center at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, where cops took the critter, determined it was a non-venomous California king snake.
But how did it end up in Teddy's bed?
A little sleuthing determined that the serpent had escaped two weeks ago from …show more content…
She took the snake off Teddy's arm.
C. She called for help.
D. She called the television company.
2. What do we learn about the snake?
A. It was poisonous.
B. It had escaped from a zoo.
C. It was about a meter long.
D. It had escaped earlier in the afternoon.
3. Which of these statements is true?
A. Teddy was awake when the snake arrived.
B. Teddy's father was working and his mother was at home.
C. Teddy needed a heart machine to stay alive for two hours.
D. The snake is used to being touched.
4. What does Teddy think now of the snake attack?
A. He was attacked because the snake was scared of him.
B. He was attacked because he was asleep.
C. He was attacked because the snake was hungry.
D. He was attacked because his parents weren't at