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Checking Understanding
FOR SAMPLE ONLY
A. Choose the best answer and rewrite the sentences.

a. Richard was very ……….. in his childhood.
i. shy ii. talkative iii. funny
b. Richard tried to ………… on the board.
i. lift his hand ii. collect his senses iii. write his name
c. The laughing of the students made him …………
i. motionless ii. active iii. brave
d. Richard ………… that he could do everything better than the other
students.
i. showed ii. thought iii. proved
e. When Richard was standing in front of the board …………
i. he could talk without any stop.

ii. he could hear the students’ whispering.
iii. he could talk clearly.

B. Decide whether the following sentences are True or False.
1) Richard was praised by everybody on his first day at school.

2) Other students laughed at him.
3) In the end, he wrote his name and address on the blackboard.
4) The teacher did not encourage him to write his name.
5) The teacher asked him to do a difficult job.
6) Actually he did not know his name and address.

C. Answer these questions.
1) Why did the Richard curse himself?

2) Why could he not write what he was told to write?
3) Why did other students laugh at him?
4) Why did he hate the other students?
5) What happened to him when he turned to the blackboard and lifted
his hand to write?
6) Did the teacher try to help him? How?

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