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ila Your teacher reads a passage. listen to it. Then answer the
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following questions.

1. Where was the girl at the beginning of the story?
2. Why did the girl not want to go home?
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3. What did the grandmother do to the child?
4. What could the passersby see after the incident?

Now read the text silently.

PRosE

ThE BoY Who asKEd foR MoRE

- Charles Dickens

[Charles Dickens [1812-1870], the greatest
Victorian novelist is known for his attacks on
social evils like child labour and institutional
cruelty. His most popular works are ‘David
Copperfield’, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ and ‘Great
Expectations’. This extract from ‘Oliver Twist’
tells us how Oliver was forced out of the poor
house]

1. Oliver was born in the poorhouse of a little
country town on a cold, black night in the
winter of 1837. The birth was attended
by a doctor who was hastily called for the
purpose, and by an old pauper woman who
was experienced in such matters.
2. The mother died almost as soon as the baby took his first breath.
She was a young, good-looking woman who had been found lying in
the street. It was clear that she had walked some distance before
she died. Her shoes had been torn to pieces. Where she had come
from, or where she had been going, nobody knew.

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