The Fun They Had – Comprehension
The Fun They Had – Comprehension
Comprehension of the lesson ‘The FunThey Had’ :
Comprehension
Read the following passages and answer the questions based on them :
1. They turned the pages ……….first time.
Questions :
(i) How were the pages they turned?
Answer – The pages they turned were yellow and crinkly.
(ii) Why is it said that to read words was awfully funny?
Answer – It is said that to read words was awfully funny as they stood still instead of moving the way they were suppose to on computer screen.
(iii) What did they find when they turned back to the page before?
Answer – When they turned back to the page before, they found that there were the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time.
(iv) Who does the word ‘they’ refer to here?
Answer – Here the word ‘they’ refers to Margie and Tommy.
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2. He was a round …… in no time.
Questions :-
(i) What did ‘the round little man with a red face’ have, and what did he offer Margie?
Answer – ‘The round little man with red face’ had a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He offered Margie an apple.
(ii) Where did all the lessons and questions appear?
Answer – All the lessons and questions appeared on the big screen.
(iii) Which ‘part’ Margie did not like?
Answer – Margie did not like the slot where she had to put homework and test papers.
(iv) When did Margie begin to learn ‘punch code’?
Answer – Margie began to learn ‘punch code’ when she was six years old.
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3. Tommy looked at her ……. had a teacher.
Questions :-
(i) What sort of school, according to Tommy, was it?
Answer – According to Tommy, it was the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
(ii) Did Margie know about such old kind of school?
Answer – No, Margie did not know about such old kind of school.
(iii) When did school exist?
Answer – Such schools existed centuries ago.
(vi) Pick the words from the passage which are opposite to :
(a) carelessly
(b) inferior
Answer – (a) carefully
(b) superior
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4. Margie went into …… proper slot.
Questions :-
(i) Where was the schoolroom?
Answer – The schoolroom was right next to Margie’s bedroom.
(ii) Which days of the week for the school were off?
Answer – Saturday and Sunday were the days which were off for the school.
(iii) What did her mother say?
Answer – Her mother said that little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours.
(iv) What request did the screen make?
Answer – The screen requested to insert the previous day’s homework in the proper slot.
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5. Margie did so with ……. talk about it.
Questions :-
(i) In whose time did those ‘old schools’ exist?
Answer – Those ‘old schools’ existed in the time of her grandfather’s grandfather.
(ii) What things did they do together?
Answer – They came, laughed, shouted in the schoolyard together and also sat in the schoolroom together.
(iii) What was the benefit of learning the same things?
Answer – By learning the same thing together, they could help one another with the homework and talk about it.
(iv) Which words in the above passage have the same meanings as :
(a) vicinity
(b) mastered
Answer – (a) neighbourhood
(b) learned
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