NSW Year 4 English free practice questions with answers

Correct answer: D — forty years

• What is the question asking? It asks for a fact that the text states.
• Go back to the text and find the evidence: “except the great brass clock in the window, which had been silent for forty years.”
• The first paragraph says how long the clock had been silent.
• So the correct answer is D (forty years).
• Why the other options are wrong:
• A (four years): The story says forty years.
• B (fourteen years): The story says forty years.
• C (four months): The story says forty years.

Go back to the text and find the exact words that answer the question, then match them to an option.