Reading 4B: Treasure Ship

A a diamond

B a piece of gold

C lots of coins

D a piece of copper

A There were a lot of expensive items on the ship.

B The shipwreck was a very important discovery.

C The coins on the ship weren’t real, but it was an important ship.

D The shipwreck contained a treasure, but it wasn’t real.

A to describe how a fire destroyed a part of the ship

B to describe what books and maps were like in the 1500s

C to explain why it’s difficult to know much about the ship

D to inform that the ship was named the Bom Jesus

A It was a Portuguese ship.

B It probably got lost in a storm.

C It was carrying Spanish money.

D It was returning from India.

A All the sailors were able to swim to land.

B There were 2,000 Spanish coins on the Bom Jesus.

C The ship got lost in a storm and smashed into rocks.

D The ship came from Portugal about 500 years ago.

A to show how bad the sailors’ situation was

B to compare the Skeleton Coast to what Mars looks like

C to say that the sailors had found a beautiful but strange place

D to say that they had been on Mars before