Elementary Stories for Reproduction

A. Answer these questions.
1. Why is there a speed limit in towns and big villages?
2. How fast did Jack sometimes drive through towns?
3. Why did the young policeman stop Jack?
4. What was Jack’s excuse? (He said, ‘. . .’)
5. Why did the policeman let Jack go?
B.
Opposites.
What words in the story on page 46 mean the opposite of:
1.
slowly
4. more
7. safe
2.
wrong
5. big
3.
carelessly
6. slower
C. Which of these sentences are true? Write them down.
1. There was no speed ‘limit outside towns and big villages.
2. The speed limit outside towns and big villages was 50 kilometers an hour.
3. Jack often drove faster than 50 kilometers an hour in towns.
4. Jack often drove faster than the speed limit.
5. The policeman wanted Jack’s name and address.
6. Jack wanted the policeman’s name and address.
7. Jack’s excuse was a good one.
8. Jack’s excuse was a bad one.
9. The policeman let Jack go because he thought, ‘Perhaps that’s a
good excuse.’
10. The policeman let Jack go because he was new at that work.

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Dick was seven years old, and his sister, Catherine, was five. One day their
mother took them to their aunt’s house to play while she went to the big city to
buy some new clothes
The children played for an hour, and then at half past four their aunt took
Dick into the kitchen. She gave him a nice cake and a knife and said to him,
‘Now here’s a knife, Dick. Cut this cake in half and give one of the pieces to
your sister, but remember to do it like a gentleman.’
‘Like a gentleman?’ Dick asked. ‘How do gentlemen do it? ‘They always give
the bigger piece to the other person,’ answered his aunt at once.
‘Oh,’ said Dick. He thought about this for a few seconds. Then he took the
cake to his sister and said to her, ‘Cut this cake in half, Catherine.’