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Tommy was in a rush. Grabbing his school bag and file, he kissed his mother goodbye and headed straight for the door. His father looked up from the newspaper and said, “Better bring an umbrella with you. It says here there’s going to be showers in the afternoon.”
Tommy looked at the sky. It was clear blue with no clouds in sight.” “Not today,” he thought to himself. He went straight out without heeding his father’s words. He had a good day in school. He managed to finish all his school work which wasn’t normally the case. He had a good game of football during recess. So, by dismissal time, he was in a good mood.
On the way home, the sky started to darken and thunder rumbled. Without warning, heavy drops of rain fell and totally drenched him. He tried to make a dash for it and ran all the way home. By the time he reached his doorstep, he was soaked to his skin. His mother looked at him and said, “You should have listened to your father.”
| 1. | Tommy was going to ______. | ||
| A | school | ||
| B | play football | ||
| C | play in the rain | ||
| D | tuition class | ||
| 2. | His father knew it was going to rain because ______. | ||
| A | he heard it on the radio | ||
| B | he saw the forecast on television | ||
| C | the sky was dark outside | ||
| D | he read it in the newspaper | ||
| 3. | Tommy did not think it was going to rain because ______. | ||
| A | the sky was cloudless | ||
| B | the sky was full of light clouds | ||
| C | the sky was dark | ||
| D | he did not listen to his father | ||
| 4. | Tommy was in a good mood because ______. | ||
| A | he finished all his homework | ||
| B | he scored a goal during football | ||
| C | he finished all his work and had a good football game | ||
| D | it was dismissal time | ||
| 5. | “soaked to his skin’ means ______. | ||
| A | his skin got thoroughly wet | ||
| B | water is getting into his skin | ||
| C | his skin is soaked in water | ||
| D | his whole body is soaked in water | ||
Talique
COMPREHENSION TECHNIQUE
1. Read the passage carefully several times
Read the passage through quickly first of all to get a general idea of the theme, but then you must read it through again slowly and carefully at least twice before going on to answer the questions.
2. Make sure that you understand the questions being asked
Next, look at the questions and work out mentally whereabouts in the passage the information for the answers lies and what the answers are.
Too often students iust glance at the questions and don’t fully appreciate their implications. Break them down into simpler statements. Ask yourself what information is really being asked for.
3. Make sure that your answer is relevant
Keep looking back at the question to ensure that the information you are giving in the option you chose is the information being asked for.
4. Keep to the facts given in the passage unless otherwise asked
The purpose of a comprehension exercise is to see whether or not you have understood the passage, not to see how much you know about the subject discussed in the passage. Most comprehension questions require you to find information from the passage to answer the questions.
Gradually, every parent becomes aware that his or her child has adult concerns, wants acres of privacy and no longer trusts the goodwill of parents in the same old way. These are the biggest of all changes in child-parent relations, and are almost always in place by age 13. This shift occurs not because of bad influences and media, but because your child’s brain has matured and is capable of more independent judgement. Please remember, however that the change is not locked in place. A young adolescent can bounce back and forth between ages eight and 13 (and sometimes 15) in a matter of seconds, scorning your values yet, at times, still wanting to sit on your lap.
For girls, the central action is their social lives and the intensity of their feelings. No matter how much a girl and her friends are torturing one another with gossip in school or instant messages from home computers, she is convinced that if you knew what she was saying, you would disapprove or, even worse, try to interfere and make a bad situation uglier.
What is she talking about with her friends? Social power: Who’s popular, who’s feminine, and who’s really weird. Parents: their faults and inability to understand 13 year olds.
Girls are talking about their powerful feelings; they have complex and sometimes overwhelming insights into life. Their joy can be great and is visible, but their despair is hidden in solitary late-night crying, journal entries, weight obsession.
Boys are preoccupied by their power and opinion of other boys, their anxiety about whether they live up to the test of masculinity, a new, deeper range of feelings that they may be unable to put into words. In the kitchen, a boy looks down into his mother’s eyes and thinks, why is this woman giving me orders? I love her but I am bigger than she is. That perplexes him because he still needs her so much. Boys, like girls, are having a lot of dark nights of the soul in which they see how disappointing adults can be and how unjust society is, they may not be able to put their fears into words, or they do not want to because it makes them feel weak.
Discuss: What is the main idea and what are the supporting points?
Do you agree with the points being made?
a) What meaning is conveyed by the word ‘acres’ in line 1?
b) Identify TWO of the ‘biggest of all changes in child-parent relations’, according to the writer.
c) What does the phrase ‘not locked in place’ mean?
d) What, according to the passage, are causes of the shifts in child-parent relations?
e) To whom does the word ‘you’ in paragraph 2 refer?
f) What, according to the passage, is the preoccupation of (i) girls and (ii) boys?
g) Why, according to the writer, are boys perplexed?
Azariyah
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Word Problems
Teriq
Tommy was in a rush. Grabbing his school bag and file, he kissed his mother goodbye and headed straight for the door. His father looked up from the newspaper and said, “Better bring an umbrella with you. It says here there’s going to be showers in the afternoon.”
Tommy looked at the sky. It was clear blue with no clouds in sight.” “Not today,” he thought to himself. He went straight out without heeding his father’s words. He had a good day in school. He managed to finish all his school work which wasn’t normally the case. He had a good game of football during recess. So, by dismissal time, he was in a good mood.
On the way home, the sky started to darken and thunder rumbled. Without warning, heavy drops of rain fell and totally drenched him. He tried to make a dash for it and ran all the way home. By the time he reached his doorstep, he was soaked to his skin. His mother looked at him and said, “You should have listened to your father.”
| 1. | Tommy was going to ______. | ||
| A | school | ||
| B | play football | ||
| C | play in the rain | ||
| D | tuition class | ||
| 2. | His father knew it was going to rain because ______. | ||
| A | he heard it on the radio | ||
| B | he saw the forecast on television | ||
| C | the sky was dark outside | ||
| D | he read it in the newspaper | ||
| 3. | Tommy did not think it was going to rain because ______. | ||
| A | the sky was cloudless | ||
| B | the sky was full of light clouds | ||
| C | the sky was dark | ||
| D | he did not listen to his father | ||
| 4. | Tommy was in a good mood because ______. | ||
| A | he finished all his homework | ||
| B | he scored a goal during football | ||
| C | he finished all his work and had a good football game | ||
| D | it was dismissal time | ||
| 5. | “soaked to his skin’ means ______. | ||
| A | his skin got thoroughly wet | ||
| B | water is getting into his skin | ||
| C | his skin is soaked in water | ||
| D | his whole body is soaked in water | ||
1. Which of the following is not an indication that a foreign body is lodged in the eye ?
(A) Problem seeing
(B) Painful eye
(C) Watery eye
(D) Puffy eye
2. Why is it not advisable to rub the eye when there is something in the eye ?
(A) The eye will not stop watering.
(B) You will not be able to open the eye.
(C) The foreign body may injure the eye.
(D) Rubbing the eye will dislodge the foreign body.
3. Which of the following is a procedure to remove a foreign body from the eye ?
(A) Rubbing a piece of cloth over the eye.
(B) Gently washing the eye with warm water.
(C) Squeezing a few drops of eye drops over the eye.
(D) Rubbing the eye gently to dislodge the foreign body.
4. The expression profuse tearing means
(A) producing a lot of tears
(B) producing tears when required
(C) tearing the eye into many pieces
(D) tears flowing and stopping intermittently
5. Te word it in point number 3 refers to the
(A) corner of the eye
(B) damp handkerchief
(C) dirt or foreign body
(D) white part of the eye
6. This medical advice is most likely found in the following except
(A) a home emergency guidebook
(B) a journal of medical terms
(C) a guidebook for campers
(D) a health magazine
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