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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:Whose woods these are I think, I know,His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deepBut I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.– Robert Frost1. Where does the owner of the woods live?2. Who wishes to stop and where?3. What type of evening was that of the year?4. Why does the horse think that the rider has made some mistake?5. What other sounds did the poet hear in the woods?6. Why did the horse shake its harness bells?Choose from the passage the words that mean:7. Covered with ice8. The leatherwork by which a horse is controlled9. Beautiful |
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Answer» 1. He lives in a village quite close to the place where the poet is with his horse. 2. The poet (the rider of the horse) wishes to stop near the woods. 3. It was the darkest evening of the year. 4. The horse thinks so because his rider stops at night at a place where there is no farmhouse to stay in. 5. The other sound the poet hears in the woods was the sweep of wind and of downy flake. 6. he horse did so as if to ask if there was something wrong. 7. Frozen 8. Harness 9. Lovely |
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