| 1. |
Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:Every afternoon on their way home from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden. It was a lovely garden with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the springtime broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. “How happy we are here!” they cried to each other.One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre and had stayed with him for seven years. After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle. When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden. “What are you doing here ?” he cried in a very gruff voice and the children ran away.“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.” So he built a high wall all around it, and put up a noticeboard:TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTEDHe was a very selfish Giant.(1) Why were the children happy in the garden?(2) Why was the Giant away from his castle for seven years?(3) How did the Giant keep the children out of his garden?(4) Why, do you think, did the children run away? |
|
Answer» (1) The children were happy in the garden because they could play in the garden amongst the pretty flowers. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. All this made them very happy. (2) The Giant had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre and had stayed there with him for all those seven years. (3) The Giant shouted at the children and said that the garden belonged to him and he would allow nobody to play in it but himself. Then he built a high wall all around it and put up a noticeboard: TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. (4) The children must have been startled to see the Giant. His gruff voice and rude words must have made them run away. |
|