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Read the following passage. During the following week, the man in the next house watched what his neighbour was doing. And by the end of the week, the man began to paint his house — for the first time in ten years. A few days later, the young minister of a church near Gates Avenue passed these two houses and saw two men working. For the first time he noticed that there was no pavement on Gates Avenue, and no streetlight, and no running water. “People who are trying so hard to make decent homes here deserve help,” the minister thought. He asked some important citizens in the city to help them. Now answer the following questions: a) How did girl’s father inspire his neighbour?b) Who came to Gates Avenue? c) What did the young minister notice? d) What inspired the young minister to build a pavement? e) Why did the minister feel that the people deserved help? f) “He asked some important citizens to help them” – Who does ‘they’ here refer to? g) What did the minister ask the important citizens to do? h) What were the problems the minister noticed in Gates Avenue? i) What did the minister see at first? j) How long had the house not been painted?

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a) When the neighbour of the girl watched her father growing a garden he was inspired and began to paint his house. 

b) The young minister of a church came to Gates Avenue.

c) The young minister noticed that the pavement, streetlights and running water were not there at Gates Avenue. 

d) When he came to Gates Avenue he saw two men working in front of their houses to make their surroundings clean. It inspired the minister to build a pavement. 

e) When he came to Gates Avenue he saw the people working to clean their surroundings; so he felt they deserved the help. 

f) ‘They’ here refers to the people of Gates Avenue. 

g) The minister asked the important citizens to help the people of Gates Avenue. 

h) Lack of pavements, streetlights and proper running water system were the problems in Gates Avenue. 

i) At first the minister saw the men working to clean their surroundings. 

j) The house had not been painted for years.



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