Reading Comprehension: 24. Thrift Store Treasures

1. What was the TV show Mary watched about?
1. the latest fashions
2. a pirate who finds a treasure chest at a thrift shop
3. the top 100 thrift shops in the U.S.
4. people who found amazing things at thrift shops
2. On the TV show, the items people bought ended up being ____________.
1. worthless
2. very valuable
3. easily broken
4. made out of plastic
3. The copy of the Declaration of Independence the man bought was actually ___________.
1. a fake
2. the Bill of Rights
3. one of the 200 official copies
4. stolen
4. What is the most common item people received the most money from?
1. books
2. clothes
3. figurines
4. paintings
5. Why was the cat painting Mary bought worth a lot?
1. the more cats painted on, the more value
2. it was created by a blind painter
3. the frame it was in was worth a lot
4. it’s the only surviving art work from Van Gogh