1. Why were the boy’s parents worried ?

Question

Read the following passages carefully and answers the questions that follow each :

Once there was a little boy who lived with his parents in a small village. His parents were worried because he had a bad temper. He had no friends because he always used bad language in a fit of anger. His parents advised him many times to control his anger but he did not pay attention.

The father kept thinking and then he got an idea. The next day, his father gave him a bag of nails and a hammer. He said to him, “Every time you lose your temper, you must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.” The boy accepted the task happily.

1. Why were the boy’s parents worried ?

2. What task did his father gave him ?

3. Choose true and false statements

(a) The boy refused to do the job.

(b) His boy lived in a small village ?

4. Complete the sentences according to the meaning of the passage.

(a) He always used bad language in ………..

(b) Her father gave him a ………….. and a hammer.

5. Match the words with their meanings.

(a) temper	idea
(b) accepted	agreed to
	nature.

Answer 1

1. The boy’s Parents were worried because he had a bad temper.

2. His father asked him to hammer a nail into the back of the fence every time he lost his temper.

3. (a) False

(b) True.

4. (a) He always used bad language in a fit of angers.

(b) His father gave him a bag of nails and a hammer.

5. (a) temper – nature

(b) accepted – agreed to