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B. Complete the summary of the poem using suitable words or phrases
given below.

the road ahead up-hill someone a place a journey

in the affirmative on the way everyone fellow travellers an inn
The speaker is making ……………. with her guide. She asks the
guide eight different questions about …………. The first question
is if the road is all ……………. and if the journey will take all day.
The guide replies …………….. Next, she asks if there is …………….
to rest for the night. The guide informs the speaker that there is
……………. which she won’t miss. The speaker’s fifth question is,
whether she will meet the other travellers …………….. At the inn,
the speaker asks if she should knock or call the …………….. The
guide replies that……………. will open the door. Lastly, the speaker
asks if there will be a bed for her. The guide tells her that there are
beds for…………….

C. Answer the following questions.

a. How far is the road up-hill, according to the guide?

b. What does the speaker doubt about the place to rest?

c. Who has travelled the road before?

d. What is the speaker’s seventh question?

e. Who do you think opens the door?

D. Write a short description of an interesting road that you have
recently travelled along.

Listening

A. Look at the picture and answers these questions.

a. How many planets are there in the solar
system?

b. Do you think that Pluto is a planet?

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