NB Grade 6 English Reading Practice Questions - Grade 6 English Reading Assessment - New Brunswick (Anglophone) Exam

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Read the passage. "Every summer, Willa visited her grandfather in a small village where the red cliffs lean over the Bay of Fundy. Her grandfather had been the last keeper of the little lighthouse on the point before the light was automated. On her first morning, he pressed a brass key into her palm. 'The light keeps itself now,' he said, 'but a key is for more than doors.' That afternoon Willa climbed the spiral stairs and unlocked the small room at the top. The lamp stood dark and polished, and below her the tide was racing out, uncovering a shining road of wet sand." Which statement best expresses a theme of this passage?

New technology always ruins old traditions Objects can carry memories and meaning from one generation to the next Lighthouses are dangerous places for children Grandparents should give their grandchildren expensive gifts

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Objects can carry memories and meaning from one generation to the next

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