Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions that follow each :
Every time, the boy felt angry, he ran to the fence and drove a nail into it. The first day, the boy had driven thirty nails into the fence. After a few days, the number of nails started decreasing. Over the next few weeks, he discovered that it was easier to control his anger than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally, the day came when the boy did not lose his temper at all.
He had not hammered any nail into the fence. He told his father about it. The father gave him one more task to do. He asked the boy to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the little boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
1. How many nails did the boy push into the fence the first day?
2. What did the boy discover after a few weeks?
3. Choose true and false statements
(a) The boy could not control his anger?
(b) Pulling out of a nail meant no anger.
4. Complete the sentence according to the meaning of the passage.
(a) The boy finally told his father that ………. were gone.
(b) After a few day, the number of nails
5. Match the words with their meaning.
| (a) discovered |
control |
| (b) hold |
realized |
|
push |
