Q: It was a great day for a picnic and a picnic was a great way to start the summer holiday. Fred brought his classmates John and Betty to a wonderful picnic place. After lunch, John said they should play football. When the ball came to Fred, he kicked it into some long grass. "I'll get it," he said and hurried off to find the ball. Moments later after there was a shout and out came Fred holding his leg. "I've been bitten by a snake!" As the others rushed over to help, Fred laughing. "Ha! I'm not really hurt." But Betty didn't laugh, "I can't believe you did that, Fred. I was really frighten for you." The friends then decided to go for a swim. John and Betty jumped into the water. Fred was standing on a long rock by the riverbank and said, "Watch and jump" They shouted excitedly as he went under the water, but as the seconds passed he didn't come back to the top. The friends became worried. Suddenly they heard Fred's laugh. "Won't you ever learn? I swam behind this tree when I jumped." "Very funny, Fred?" said John angrily. "Anyway, I'm feeling tired and I'm going for a sleep." Betty joined him. Fred, however, moved to a narrow part of the river and jumped in. Although he was a good swimmer, the water there was moving much faster and Fred found himself being _ away. He managed to catch hold of a tree, but he was very tired now and with the water still moving fast, couldn't pull himself out. Back at the picnic place, as Betty and John were preparing to sleep, they heard Fred's cries for help. John looked at Betty and said, "Does he really think we're so foolish? Wake me up in an hour. It'll be time to go back home then."

Answer the following questions:
1. What did John want to play?
2. Who was he playing with?
3. Who else was there?
4. Who was the prankster of the group?
5. Was he attacked by a serpent?
6. Did he think it was a funny joke?
7. Who didn't agree?
8. What season was it?
9. Did they go swimming?
10. Where?
11. Was the current fast or slow?
12. Who cried for help?
13. What was he holding onto?
14. Did his friends believe him?
15. Where were they?
16. What did they make plans to do?
A: 1. Football.
2. Fred
3. Betty
4. Fred
5. no.
6. yes he did.
7. Betty.
8. Summer.
9. Yes.
10. The river.
11. fast.
12. Fred.
13. a tree
14. No.
15. The picnic place.
16. to sleep.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Robert lives in a small town. Five years ago, when he was nineteen, he finished middle school. He didn't like any subjects except playing when he was at school. Of course he learned nothing and the bosses wouldn't use a man like him. He has to stay at home, but doesn't do any housework, only watches TV or lies on bed. It makes his parents angry. They want him to study something, he always think it difficult and doesn't listen to them. One day Robert was walking near a bookshop while some young men were talking about the writers. He heard the publishing house pays the writers a lot. He became interested in it. As soon as he got home, he began to write. But he couldn't write anything. At last he bought a book and copied a story. Then he posted it to the publishing house. He waited for nearly half a year, but didn't get any answers. He had to ask an editor on the telephone, "Have you read my story yet, sir?" "Yes," said the editor, "I had read it before you were born! "

1. How old is Robert?
2. When did he get done with middle school?
3. How old was he then?
4. Was he good at school?
5. What was his favorite class?
6. What did he like?
7. Did he learn a lot?
8. Where does he live
9. Does he have a job?
10. Why not?
11. Does he help around the house?
12. What does he do?
13. How does his mom and dad feel?
14. What do they want him to do?
15. Why doesn't he?
16. What does he decide to try?
17. Where'd he get that idea/
18. What enticed him to try it?
19. Did he give something to a publisher?
20. Was it plagiarized?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. 24
2. five years ago
3. 198
4. no
5. he didn't like any of them
6. playing
7. no
8. a small town
9. no
10. the bosses can't use him
11. no
12. watches TV
13. angry
14. study
15. it's difficult
16. writing
17. some men were talking about writers
18. he heard they are paid a lot
19. yes
20. yes

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER V

CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME

"It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, Who ruled as well as ever mortal can, sir, When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess, She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir."

West Country Song.

The next morning Amyas Leigh was not to be found. Not that he had gone out to drown himself in despair, or even to bemoan himself "down by the Torridge side." He had simply ridden off, Frank found, to Sir Richard Grenville at Stow: his mother at once divined the truth, that he was gone to try for a post in the Irish army, and sent off Frank after him to bring him home again, and make him at least reconsider himself.

So Frank took horse and rode thereon ten miles or more: and then, as there were no inns on the road in those days, or indeed in these, and he had some ten miles more of hilly road before him, he turned down the hill towards Clovelly Court, to obtain, after the hospitable humane fashion of those days, good entertainment for man and horse from Mr. Cary the squire.

And when he walked self-invited, like the loud-shouting Menelaus, into the long dark wainscoted hall of the court, the first object he beheld was the mighty form of Amyas, who, seated at the long table, was alternately burying his face in a pasty, and the pasty in his face, his sorrows having, as it seemed, only sharpened his appetite, while young Will Cary, kneeling on the opposite bench, with his elbows on the table, was in that graceful attitude laying down the law fiercely to him in a low voice.

1. What is the name of this chapter?
2. Who joined the army?
3. How did he travel?
4. Were there places to stay during the journey?
5. How far did he have travel?
6. What was the squires name?
7. Who went after the young man?
8. What was on the walls of the building?
9. Who was seated at the table?
10. Was he happy?
11. Was he hungry?
12. Who occupied the chair next to him?
13. What military was he joining?
14. What color was his face?
15. Where did he bury his head?
16. what is a pasty?
17. Did the young man join the military?
18. Who cared for the animal?
19. What was the queens name?
20. Was she a good ruler?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
2. Amyas Leigh
3. horse
4. no
5. ten miles
6. Mr. Cary
7. Frank
8. wainscoting
9. Amyas
10. no
11. yes
12. Will Cary,
13. the Irish army
14. unknown
15. in a pasty
16. unknown
17. probably not
18. Mr. Cary
19. Bess
20. eys