Supplementary Reader
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
With the help of these spirits, Prospero could command the winds and the waves of the sea. By his orders they raised a violent storm, in the midst of which, he showed his daughter a fine large ship, which he told her was full of living beings like themselves. “Oh my dear Father”, said she, “if by your art you have raised this dreadful storm, have pity on their sad distress. See the vessel will be dashed to pieces Poor souls! they will all perish”. “Be not so amazed, daughter Miranda”, said Prospero, “there is no harm done. I have so ordered it, that no person in the ship shall receive any hurt. What I have done has been in care of you my dear child. You are ignorant. Can you remember a time before you came to this cell? I think you cannot, for you were not then three years of age”.
Questions:
1. What did Prospero do with the help of the good spirits?
2. Whom did Miranda take pity on?
3. What did Prospero assure?
4. How old was Miranda when she came to the Island?
5. Who were in the large ship?
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
When Prospero left him, he called his spirit Ariel, who quickly appeared before him eager to relate what he had done with Prospero’s brother and the king of Naples. Ariel said he had left them almost out of their senses with fear, at the strange things he had caused them to see and hear. When fatigued with wandering about and famished for want of food, he had suddenly set before them a delicious banquet and then, just as they were going to eat, he appeared visible before them in the shape of a harpy, a voracious monster with wings, and the feast vanished away.
Then to utter their amazement, this seeming harpy spoke to them, reminding them of their cruelty in driving Prospero from his dukedom and leaving him and his infant daughter to perish in the sea; saying that for this cause these terrors were suffered to afflict them, The king of Naples, and Antonio the false brother, repented the injustice they had done to Prospero.
Questions:
1. Whom did Prospero call?
2. What did Ariel say to Prospero?
3. What cruelty was done by them?
4. What did happen when they famished for want of food?
5. Who repented the injustice had done to Prospero?
3. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
You are both quite mistaken their father hastened to explain, seeing his wife’s horrified expression. ZigZag is a most harmless, unusual and lovable bird. Apparently, it was bred by a genuine African witch doctor, who gifted it to Somu, when he - being a child specialist like me - cured the witch doctor’s son while he was touring the deepest Jungles of Equator Africa last month. Somu says the bird is an absolute treasure and a real help. It’s his favourite pet, you know.
Questions:
1. How was the expression of Mrs. Krishnan, after she heard about ZigZag?
2. Who is ZigZag?
3. How was it bred?
4. Who gifted ZigZag to Somu?
5. What did Somu say about the bird?
4. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
Dr. T. Ashok Krishnan’s Clinic usually sounded more like an ancient chinese torture chamber than a child specialist’s clinic. This was because the tiny children who were his patients left out a variety of blood - curdling yells and ear - splitting sobs.
It’s all because my patients were making so much noise and crying so loudly, he apologized to his wife - one evening,that Somu couldn’t hear me properly. He rang me in the clinic to ask whether he could keep ZigZag with us when he leaves for Alaska. And now Somu thinks I said “Yes”, even though I clearly said “No”! I know you are busy getting your painting, ready for your exhibition next week.
Questions:
1. How was the Dr. Krishnan’s clinic sounded?
2. Who raised blood - curdling yells?
3. Who leaves for Alaska?
4. What was Mrs. Krishnan busy with?
5. Why did Somu ring Mr. Krishnan?
5. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
Father, listen please”, said Mulan. “For years you trained me in Kung Fu. You showed me how to use a sword”. Mulan swung the sword back and forth with might. “Only show that you could stay safe!” said her father. “I never meant for you to go to war. If they find out you are a woman, you know as well as I do that you will die”. No one will find out, father said Mulan. She picked up her sword. Mulan said to the father. He tried to get up but had to hold on to his chair. The daughter kissed him good bye. I love you, father, she said, “Take care of yourself. Tell my brother I said good bye”. She climbed on a family horse. And off she went to join the emperor’s army.
Questions:
1. Who trained Mulan in “Kung Fu”?
2. How did she swing the sword?
3. Did Mulan’s father want her to go to the war?
4. What would the emperor do if he found that she was a woman?
5. How did she go to join the army?
6. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
Many years ago, China was in the middle of a great war. The Emperor said that one man from each Chinese family must leave his family to join the army. Mulan, a teenager girl who lived in a faraway village of China, heard the news when she was outside, washing clothes. Mulan ran into the house. Her father was sitting in a chair, carving a piece of wood. “Father!” she said. “Did you hear what the Emperor says each family must do?” “Yes”, said her old father. “I heard about it in town. Well, I may as well go pack up”. He put down his carving, stood up and walked very slowly to his room.
Questions:
1. What was the danger of China?
2. What was the order of the Emperor?
3. Where did Mulan live?
4. What was Mulan’s father doing?
5. Where did the old father hear about the emperor’s order?
7. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
The eyes of the old mother were not so dim but that they noted the reckless hastening from one path to another, and her loving heart grew anxious. Her son did not know the mountain’s many paths and his return might be one of danger. So she stretched forth her hand and snapping the twigs from bushes as they passed, she quietly dropped a handful every few steps of the way so that they climbed, the narrow path behind them was dotted at frequent intervals with tiny piles of twigs. At last the summit was reached. Weary and heart sick, the youth gently realeased his burden and silently prepared a place of comfort as his last duty to the loved one. Gathering fallen pine leaves he made a soft cushion and tenderly lifted his old mother onto it. Her wrapped her padded coat more closely about the stopping shoulders and with tearful eyes and an aching heart he said farewell.
Questions:
1. How sharp were the eyes of the mother?
2. Why did she grow anxious?
3. What did she do for her son’s safe return?
4. How did he prepare the bed?
5. How did he bid farewell?
8. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
The trembling mother’s voice was full of unselfish love as she gave her last injunction. “Let not thine eyes be blinded, my son”, she said. “The mountain road is full of dangerous path. Look carefully and follow the path which holds the piles of twigs. They will guide you to the familiar path farther down”. The son’s surprised eyes looked back over the path, then at the poor old shriveled hands all scratched and soiled by their work by love. His heart broke within and bowing to the ground, he cried loudly. “Oh honourable mother, your kindness breaks my heart! I will not leave you. Together we will follow the path of twigs and together we will die!”
Questions:
1. How was the mother’s voice?
2. What was the advice of the old mother?
3. Why did the son’s heart broke down?
4. What did the son say to his mother?
5. Do you love your mother? Give one reason.
9. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
At that moment the clock struck twelve. The director of the Earth Herald left the hall and sat down in a rolling armchair. In a few minutes he had reached his dinning room half a mile away, at the far end of the office.
The table was laid and he took place at it. Within reach of his hand was placed a series of taps and before him was the curved surface of a phonotelephote on which appeared the dinning room of his home in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett had arranged to have lunch at the same time nothing could be more pleasant than to be face to face inspite of the distance, to see one another and talk by means of the phonotelephotic apparatus.
Like everybody else in easy circumstances nowadays, Francis Bennett, having abandoned domestic cooking is one of the subscribers to the society for supplying food to the Home, which distributes dishes of a thousand types through a network of pneumatic tubes. This system is expensive, no doubt, but the cooking is better. So, not without some regret, Francis Bennet was launching in solitude. He was finishing his coffee when Mrs. Bennett having got back home, appeared in the telephote screen.
Questions:
1. How far did the dining room away from Mr. Bennett’s office?
2. How did Mr. Bennett use to talk and see with his wife when she was in Paris?
3. Who does distribute food dishes to Bennett’s home and how?
4. Is the food supply system through the pipes expensive?
5. At which time, Mr. Bennett left for lunch?
10. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
It grew still colder, and his arm ached, began to grow stiff and numb. He shouted again, “Will no one come? Mother! Mother!” But his mother had looked anxiously along the dike road many times since sunset for her little boy, and now she had closed and locked the cottage door, thinking that Peter was spending the night with his blind friend, and that she would scold him in the morning for staying away from home without permission. Peter tried to whistle, but his teeth charted with the cold. He thought of his brother and sister in their warm-beds, and of his dear father and mother.
Questions:
1. Why did Peter’s arm ache?
2. What did his mother do?
3. What did she think finally about her son?
4. What did Peter try to do?
5. What did he think?
11. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
Holland is a country where much of the land lies below the sea level. Only great walls called Dikes keep the North Sea from rushing in and flooding the land. For centuries the people of Holland have worked to keep the wall strong so that their country will be safe and dry. Even the little children know the dikes must be watched every moment and that a hole no longer than your finger can be a very dangerous thing. Many years ago there lived in Holland a boy named Peter. Peter’s father was one of the men who tended the gates in the dikes called sluices. He opened and closed the sluices so that ships could pass out of Holland’s canal into the great sea.
Questions:
1. Name the country that much of the land lies below the sea?
2. Which can be a dangerous thing?
3. Who was Peter?
4. What were called sluices?
5. Why were the sluices opened and closed by Peter’s father
12. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
He died that day next week and was handsomely buried. The day after, his will was found, leaving me as his heir. I opened his safe and found in it nothing but an iron box, evidently of his own making, for he was a skilled workman and very ingenious. The box was heavy and strong, about ten inches long, eight inches wide and ten inches high. On it lay a letter to me. It ran this. I stood appalled, the key in my hand. Was it true? Was it a lie? I had spent all my savings on the funeral and was poorer than ever. Remembering the old man’s oddity, his malice, his cleverness in mechanic arts, and the patent explosive which had helped to make him rich. I began to feel how very likely it was that he had told the truth in this cruel letter. I carried the iron box away to my lodgings, set it down with care in a closet, laid the key on it, and locked the closet.
Questions:
1. When did uncle die?
2. How was uncle Philip buried?
3. What did the authour see in the safe?
4. On what did the authour spend all his savings?
5. Where did he carry the iron box?
13. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below.
In my despair I consulted Professor Clinch about my dilemma, and as to some safe way of getting at the rubies. He said that, if my uncle had not lied there was none that would not ruin the stones especially the pearls, but that it was a silly tale and altogether incredible. I offered him the biggest ruby if he wished to test his opinion he did not desire to do so.
Dr. Schaff, my uncle’s doctor, believed the old man’s letter and added a caution which was entirely useless for by this time I was afraid to be in the room with that terrible box.
At last the doctor kindly warned me that I was in danger of losing my mind with two much thought about my rubies. In fact, I did nothing else but contrive wild plans to get at them safely. I spent all my spare hours at one of the great libraries reading about dynamite.
Questions:
1. Whom did the narrator consult about this?
2. What was the narrator’s dilemma?
3. What did the narrator offer Professor Clinch?
4. Who was Dr. Schaff?
5. Why was the narrator in danger of losing his mind.
Supplementary Reader Key Answers
1. 1. With the help of the good spirits Prospero could command the winds and the waves of the sea.
2. The people in the vessel.
3. There will be no harm to the people in the vessel.
4. She was three years old.
5. Prospero and his daughter was there in the ship.
2. 1. Prospero called his spirit Ariel.
2. Ariel said to Prospero that he had left Prospero’s brother and the king of Naple’s almost out of their senses with fear.
3. They drove Prospero from his dukedom and leaving him and his infant daughter to perish in the sea.
4. Ariel had set before them a delicious banquet. But the feast vanished away.
5. The king of Naples and Antonio repented the injustice they had done to Prospero.
3. 1. After Mrs. Krishnan heard about ZigZag she was horrified.
2. ZigZag is the most harmless unusual and lovable bird.
3. It was bred by a genuine African witch doctor.
4. An African witch doctor gifted ZigZag to Somu.
5. Somu said that the bird is an absolute treasure and a real help.
4. 1. Dr. T. Krishnan’s Clinic is sounded like an ancient Chinese torture chamber.
2. The tiny children, his patients raised blood curdling yells.
3. Somu leaves for Alaska.
4. Mrs. Krishnan was busy with her painting.
5. Somu rang Mr. Krishnan to ask whether they could keep ZigZag with them.
5. 1. Mulan’s father trained Mulan in ‘Kung Fu’.
2. Mulan swung the sword back and forth with might.
3. No, Mulan’s Father didn’t want Mulan to go to war.
4. If he found that she was a woman, the emperor would kill her.
5. Mulan picked up her sword and kissed her father and said good bye she climbed on a family horse and off she went to join the emperor’s army.
6. 1. China was in the middle of great war.
2. One man from each Chinese family must leave his family to join the army.
3. Mulan lived in a faraway village of China.
4. Mulan’s father was sitting in a chair carving a piece of wood.
5. The old father heard about the emperor order in town.
7. 1. The eyes of the old mother were not so dim but that they noted the reckless hastening from one path to another
2. Her loving heart grew anxious
3. She stretched forth her hand and snapping the twigs from bushes
4. Gathering fallen pine leaves
5. Tearful eyes and an aching heart he said farewell
8. 1. The mother’s voice was trembling and full of unselfish.
2. The mother advised his old son let not his eyes be blinded. She asked to look the road carefully and follow the path folds the piles of twigs to get down from the mountain.
3. He looked back over the right path, having broken twigs dropped by the mother. The mother’s work of love broke down the son's heart.
4. He said to his mother that he would not leave her. He planned to follow the right path with his mother.
5. Yes, I love my mother. She is very kind.
9. 1. The dining room is half a away from Mr. Bennett’s office.
2. Mr. Benett used to talk and see with his wife using a phonotelephote when she was in Paris.
3. One of the subscribers of the society called domestic cooking which distributes food to home of thousand types through a network of pneumatic tubes.
4. Yes, the food supply system through the pipes is expensive.
5. When the clock struck twelve, Mr. Bennet left for lunch.
10. 1. It grew still colder, and so Peter’s arm ached.
2. His mother looked anxiously along the dike road many times since sunset for her little boy and now she had closed and locked her cottage door.
3. His mother was thinking that Peter was spending the night with his blind friend.
4. He tried to whistle, but his teeth charted with the cold.
5. He thought of his brother and sister in their warm beds and of his dear father and mother.
11. 1. Holland.
2. A hole no longer than a finger in the dike can be a dangerous thing.
3. Peter was a boy lived in Holland.
4. The gates in the dikes were called as sluices.
5. Peter’s father opened and closed the sluices so that the ships could pass at Holland’s canals into the great sea.
12. 1. Uncle Philip died that day the next week.
2. He was handsomely buried.
3. He found nothing in his safe but an Iron box evidently of his own making.
4. The authour had spend all his savings on uncle Philip’s funeral and was poorer than ever.
5. He carried the iron box to his lodgings, set it down with care in a closet, laid the key on it and locked the closet.
13. 1. The narrator consulted Professor Clinch about his dilemma.
2. The narrator’s dilemma was to find some safe way of getting at the rubies from the box.
3. The narrator offered Professor Clinch the biggest ruby.
4. Dr. Schaff was the narrator’s uncle’s doctor.
5. The narrator was in danger of losing his mind with too much thought about rubies.
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- Antonyms Questions and Answers
- Singular - Plural Questions and Answers
- Prefix - Suffix Questions and Answers
- Abbreviations Questions and Answers
- Phrasal verbs / Idioms and Phrases Questions and Answers
- Compound Words Questions and Answers
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