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Reading Comprehension – Informational Passages

Directions: Read the passage. Then answer questions about the passage below.

A long time ago, people didn’t sleep in beds. Ten thousand years ago, people

probably slept on leaves and animal furs.

Long ago in Egypt, people ate, slept, and talked to friends in bed. Over 3,000

years ago, King Tut of Egypt had a beautiful bed made of wood and gold! But

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his friends and do his work in bed. He liked beautiful beds.

In 1865, people started to put springs under their mattress to make it more

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. This would make it bend and flex when the sleeper moved. By the 1930’s, most

beds had springs. About 100 years after people started to put springs under their mattress,
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Today there are different kinds of beds. Some people have waterbeds. Some sleep

on mats. Others sleep on foam mattresses or airbeds.

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many beds.

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