Cambridge Primary Progression Test

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Section A: Reading

Spend 20 minutes on this section.

Read this text from a webpage about bees and then answer the questions.

All about bees

A bee is an insect that has three body parts: a head, a thorax and an abdomen.
It also has six legs and four wings.

Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting pollen. In the hive,
where they live, the nectar is turned into honey to use as food. The pollen that
bees collect helps plants to reproduce (make more plants). Flowers that attract
bees are usually yellow, blue or purple. Many bees look for only one type of
flowering plant, which stops different bees from fighting over the same flower!

There are thousands of bees in each hive. All the bees in the hive work together
and help each other. Every bee has a job to do. The queen bee lays the eggs;
the worker bees build the honeycomb (the place the honey is stored), collect
food and care for the larvae (baby bees).

Bees are the only insects in the world that make food people can eat. They also
help our crops and plants grow.

1 Name one of the body parts of a bee.

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2 Name two things that bees get from flowers.

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3 Tick () two boxes which give true information from this text about bees.

Worker bees lay eggs.

Bees work as a group.

Pollen is used to make honey.

The queen bee cares for the larvae.

The honey is kept in a honeycomb.

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4 In the text ‘All about bees’, paragraphs are used. Draw lines to link each
paragraph with its main topic described in the boxes.
1st paragraph What bees do

2nd paragraph Why bees are useful

3rd paragraph What do bees look like?

4th paragraph How bees live together

[2] 5 Tick () the best description of the text.

It contains mostly facts.

It contains about half facts and half opinions.

It contains mostly opinions.

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6 Compare these texts.

Text 1 Text 2

Most gardens do not attract bees. Make your garden bee friendly! If
Bees like gardens with different you want bees in your garden, you
kinds of flowers and many colours. must:
Unfortunately, not enough is done to • plant lots of flowers
attract bees to our gardens. • m ake sure they’re different
colours
• not do anything to harm bees.
The information in both texts is the same, but the language used is different.

Tick () the text you prefer to read.

Text 1

Text 2

Explain why you chose that text.

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Read this information text about the process of making honey, then answer the
questions.

How is honey made?

Honey is a sweet food that is made by bees and enjoyed by humans!

1. T he first step in honey making is collecting the nectar. Field bees, the older
worker bees, leave the hive to search for nectar. They have a strong tongue
like a tube, called a proboscis. They use this to suck up the nectar.

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2. O nce the nectar is collected, the field bees return to their hives. Young
worker bees take the nectar from the field bees.

3. N ext, the nectar is turned into honey inside the beehive. The first honey the
bees make has a lot of water in it.

4. N ow, the water in the honey is reduced. This is done by the honey bees.
By moving their wings very quickly, they make the air move around. This
dries the honey.

5. O nce the honey is drier, the bees seal it into the honeycomb.

6. A beekeeper can now collect the honey from the hive. And, finally, the
honey is bottled and sold so that we can enjoy it.

7 (a) What does a bee use its proboscis for?

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(b) What do bees do to dry the honey?

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8 (a) Why have numbered paragraphs been used in ‘How is honey made?’

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(b) How do connectives, such as ‘next’ and ‘finally’, help the reader? Tick
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They make the text more interesting.

They make the order clear.

They encourage readers to read more.

They describe how honey is made.

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9 What is the purpose of this text? Tick () one box.

To describe

To persuade

To explain

Explain how you know.

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10 The text ‘How is honey made?’ has technical words in it (words that are special
to the topic being written about). Give one example of a technical word.

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11 Why has an exclamation mark been used at the end of the first sentence in the
text ‘How is honey made?’ Tick () one box.

To show agreement

To express fear

To show surprise

To express confusion
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Section B: Writing

Spend 25 minutes on this section.

12 Your teacher has decided that your class can keep a pet. You have been asked
to suggest an animal and to explain why it would make a good pet. You should
give some facts about the animal and explain how it should be looked after.

You should include:

• an introduction
• some facts about the animal • information about how to look
after it.

Think about:

• how to organise the text

• how to make the text interesting and clear.

PLANNING

Spend up to 5 minutes making notes in the box to plan your page.

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Purpose and Audience [ 6 ] Punctuation [ 2 ]

Text Structure [5] Spelling [ 2 ]
Sentence Structure [ 5 ]
Write your text here.

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Section C: Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary

Spend 15 minutes on this section.

13 Join the underlined words in the sentences to match the correct word classes.
One has been done for you.

Young bees are called larvae. They are looked after

carefully by the workers. noun adjective preposition adverb

pronoun [2]

14 (a) Underline two connectives in this sentence.

Bees make honey so they can feed the larvae and have a food store for winter.
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(b) Join this sentence

Bees like yellow, blue or purple flowers.

to this sentence

Some bees search for only one colour or type of flower.

u sing the best connective you can think of. Remember to include
punctuation.

Write your sentence here.

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15 Move the adverb to a different place in the sentence without changing the
meaning.
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A beekeeper will carefully collect honey from the hive.

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16 (a) Underline all parts of the verb in this sentence.

A beekeeper will collect the honey from the hive. [1]

(b) Change the sentence in (a) from the future to the past.

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17 Correct two errors in this sentence.

Field bees flies from the hive to finding pollen and nectar. [1] 18 Decide
whether each sentence is a statement, question or order.
Sentence Type of sentence
Plants need bees to spread pollen.
How do bees make honey?
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19 Add one comma to this sentence.

Although bees make honey to feed their larvae humans can eat it too. [1]

20 Add two apostrophes to this passage.

T h e q u e e n b e e s j o b i s v e r y i m p o r t a n t. C o l o n i e s
c a n t s u r v i v e w i t h o u t o n e. [1]

21 Add the missing punctuation to these sentences.

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“Where do bees live asked Tom.

“In a hive Toms teacher replied. [2]

22 Read this sentence about bees.

To avoid unnecessary danger, an experienced beekeeper is needed to remove

any bee hives that have been built in people’s homes.

Write other words or phrases that mean the same as the underlined words. Your
new words must keep the meaning and make sense in the sentence.

unnecessary .....................................................................................................

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Copyright Acknowledgements:

Questions 1-6 © The Buzz on Bees; San Diego Zoo; www.kids.sandiegozoo.org.

Questions 1-6 © Honey Bee Facts for Kids; Newcastle and District Beekeepers’ Association; www.bbka.co.uk. Questions
7-11 © How Do Bees Make Honey; www.Buzzle.com.

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