Tuesday 1 November 2011

READING COMPREHENSION 1





“Miss Caroline began the day by reading us a story about cats. The cats had long conversations with one another, they wore cunning little clothes and lived in a warm house beneath a kitchen stove. By the time Mrs. Cat called the drugstore for an order of chocolate malted mice, the class was wriggling like a bucketful of catawba worms. Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.”
1. The best interpretation of events in the above paragraph is that —.A) Miss Caroline loved stories more than the children did.
B) reality and experience made it hard for the children to appreciate the cats.
C) the story was too silly to be interesting to anyone.
D) the children had not been taught to sit still.
2. To be despondent means to be —.A) disheartened   B) cheerful  C) focused  D) ready
READING COMPREHENSION 1 ANSWER KEY
1. B  2. A
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