Test yourself:
Read each paragraph. Decide which answer tells the main idea.

1. Formal English includes word and expressions used in serious speech and writing. Grammar is correct and the words are on a high level. Colloquial English includes words and expressions used
by educated people in ordinary conversation. Illiterate English, which is used by uneducatedpeople, contains wrong grammar and vulgar words.

A. There are many levels of English used by different people.

B. The best English are formal, colloquial, and illiterate.

C. The levels of English are formal, colloquial, and illiterate.

D. English is the best language.

2. Man created nations that rose and fell. The civilizations he developed lived in and died. Themonuments he raised have fallen in line. But the books man has written lie on, still young as the day they were written, still telling as of men and women who lived centuries ago.

A. All of man's creations die except the books he wrote.

B. Man has created many things that do not live forever.

C. Books tell of men and events centuries ago.

D. Books are important in our lives.

3.. Billy is a special kind of boy. Billy built a bridge that looked like a real one. He once fixed my pen when I couldn't. Billy thought of how our class could earn one thousand pesos, too.

A. Billy helped our class.

B. Billy is a special kind of boy.

C. Billy fixed my pen and built a bridge.

D. Billy attends special class.

4. Lulu always knows how to get place. Anton can spell any word. Patty makes stuffed toys. Ben tells funnier jokes than anyone.

A. Not everyone knows how to go places.

B. The children are playful.

C. Lulu ,Anton,Patty,and Ben are friends.

D. Different children are good at different things​