《猴爪》書蟲讀書習(xí)題
筆記與習(xí)題分開。
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Exercises
A Checking your understanding
Chapter 1 Write down the answers to these questions.
1 Who lived at number 12 Castle Road?
//The Whites
2 What do we know about the people in the family?
//They had not got much money, but they were a very happy little family.
Chapter 2 Write the answers to these questions.
1 How long was Tom Morris in India?
//twenty-one years.
Tom was a soldier in India for twenty-one years.
2 Why did the soldier not want to talk about the monkey's paw?
//The monkey's paw brings unhappiness with it.
3 Why was the paw magic?
//???
4 How did the monkey's paw bring unhappiness to Tom Morris?
//His wife and young son died in an accident in the car.?
Chapters 3 and 4 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Mr White gave Tom Morris some money for the monkey's paw.
//Personal opinion: True
2 Mr White gave a cry because the monkey's paw moved.
//Personal opinion: True
3 Mr and Mrs White went to bed and Herbert sat and smoked.
//Personal opinion: False
4 At breakfast the White family sat and talked about the monkey's paw.
//Personal opinion: True
5 Mrs White did not want the thirty thousand pounds.
//Personal opinion: False
Chapter 5 Write down the answers to these questions.
1 What do we know about the man who came to the house?
//He's a stranger—very tall—and well-dressed. He's looking at our house...
2 Why do you think the stranger said, 'It's better not to see him.'?
//May the face looked terrible, may could not find out the body.
3 How did Mr White feel when the stranger gave him the money?
//He did not want to hear the answer.
Chapter 6 Write down the answers to these questions.
1 How were Mr and Mrs White different after Herbert died?
//They did not talk because there was nothing to say without Herbert. And so the days felt very long.
//恰巧就是我做筆記的一段,拿來當(dāng)答案。
2 Why did Mrs White want the monkey's paw again?
//She is going to wish for her boy to come back.
3 Why did Mr White not want Herbert to come back?
//She wants to see his body.
Chapter 7 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
1 Mr White got a candle from the room downstairs.
//Personal opinion: True
2 Mr and Mrs White heard a noise in the street.
//Personal opinion: True
3 Mr White wanted his wife to open the front door.
//Personal opinion: False
4 Mr White took the monkey's paw in his left hand and made his third wish.
//Personal opinion: False?
//Previously on The Monkey's Paw: Take the paw in your right hand and then make your wish.
B Working with language
1 Complete these sentences with information from the story.
1 The White family liked Tom's stories because...
//His stories were interestiong.
2 When Mr White first wished for the money he...
//did not reckon he will lose something.
3 Herbert wanted to go to India because...
//he wants to see a lot of strange and wonderful things in India.
4 Mr White felt afraid because…
//The monkey‘s paw was moved.
5 Mr White ran into the bedroom and closed the door because...
//the room is cold and dark.
6 Mrs White ran downstairs because…
//she heard a noise.
7 Herbert did not come back because…
//he died in the machinery.
2 Here are some beginnings and endings of some sentences from chapters 1 and 2. Can you put them together?
1 The two men did not talk
2 We were friends
3 Give me your coat
4 The little family listened with interest
5 This paw is magic
6 Take the paw in your right hand
7 when we were young.
8 to this visitor from far away.
9 because it can give three wishes to three people.
10 and then make your wish.
11 because they played carefully.
12 and then come into the living room.
// 1 and 11? // 2 and 7 // 3 and 12 // 4 and 8 // 5 and 9 // 6 and 10?
C Activities
1 You are the man from Maw and Meggins. Write his diary for the day when he visited Mr and Mrs White.
//It's hard to see The Whites. He was my good friend and I visited his family many times before this thing happened. When I arrived, I try my best to comforted his crying family. That is all I can do for Herbert.
2 Tom Morris comes back to 12 Castle Road after Herbert is dead. What does he say to Mr and Mrs White, and what do they say to him?
//I'm very sorry because I brought bad thing. Everthing will be OK, may Gods bless you.
3 You have three wishes. What do you ask for, and why?
//First: I wish for the Humans could save themselves because the Earth is strong.
//Second: I wish for the Alien never find us and then we can build space station.
//Third: I wish for all of the Parallel universes are under my control because I need to find Rick, and urge him to update a new season.