English Comprehension: Hard Test 6
20 questions · 25 minutes
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- “commotion” (line 2) What is the best meaning of this word here?
- “Oh, you leave that to me. Don’t you, any of you, worry yourselves about that.” (lines 7–8) What does this tell us about Uncle Podger?
- “I’ll do all that.” (line 8) Why has the author printed the word “I’ll” in italics?
- Again and again the author writes “he would shout”, “he would say” and “we would all have to”. Why has he told the story in this way?
- “Now you go and get me my hammer, Will,” (line 13) What type of sentence is this?
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- For a vocabulary question, reread the sentence around the word and substitute your suggested meaning to see whether it still makes sense.
- Read the whole passage before looking at the questions, then go back to find each answer. Skimming for keywords alone misses the inference questions entirely.