1. This is part of a science fiction story. The most important clue to this would
be:
A: the cylinder in a hole on the common.
B: something unscrewing the cylinder from within.
C: the sense of terror and apprehension in the crowd.
D: the emergence of a Martian.
E: the author’s feelings of disgust and dread.
2. The people in the crowd were first ‘elbowing and jostling’ one another
because:
A: they were retreating in fear from the pit.
B: some were trying to push others into the pit.
C: they were excited and curious to see what was in the pit.
D: a few had lost their tempers.
E: there were no police present to control them.
3. The author hints that the women in the crowd were:
A: just as aggressive as the men.
B: more aggressive than the men.
C: reluctant to push forward.
D: merely passive onlookers.
E: None of these.
4. The mood of the crowd altered suddenly when:
A: the cylinder opened.
B: a bear emerged from the cylinder.
C: a pair of eyes was detected peering at them from the cylinder.
D: tentacles appeared out of the top of the cylinder.
E: the creature opened its mouth.
5. Of the Martian’s features, the one most causing the writer’s disgust and dread
was:
A: the slobbering mouth.
B: the huge, intensely staring eyes.
C: the oily, fungoid skin.
D: the Gorgon-like tentacles.
E: the heaving, pulsating body.
Answers
Answer:
1b
2a
3c
4a
5d
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Answer:
Complete Question:
Reading Comprehension:
When I returned to the common the sun was setting. The crowd about the pit had increased, and stood out black against the lemon yellow of the sky-a couple of hundred people, perhaps. There were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on about the pit. Strange imaginings passed through my mind. As I drew nearer I heard Stent’s voice:
“Keep back! Keep back!” A boy came running towards me. “It’s moving’,” he said to me as he passed; “it’s screwing’ and screwing’ out. I don’t like it. I’m goin’ home, I am.” I went on to the crowd. There were really, I should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active. “He’s fallen in the pit!” cried some one. “Keep back!” said several. The crowd swayed a little, and I elbowed my way through. Everyone seemed greatly excited. I heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit. “I say!” said Ogilvy. “Help keep these idiots back. We don’t know what’s in the confounded thing, you know!”
I saw a young man, a shop assistant in Woking I believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. The crowd had pushed him in.
The end of the cylinder was being screwed out from within. Nearly two feet of shining screw projected. Somebody blundered against me, and I narrowly missed being pitched onto the top of the screw. I turned, and as I did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. I stuck my elbow into the person behind me, and turned my head towards the Thing again. For a moment that circular cavity seemed perfectly black. I had the sunset in my eyes.
I think everyone expected to see a man emerge-possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man. I know I did. But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks-like eyes. Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me-and then another.
A sudden chill came over me. There was a loud shriek from a woman behind. I half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. I saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. I heard inarticulate exclamations on all sides. There was a general movement backwards. I saw the shopman struggling still on the edge of the pit. I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off, Stent among them. I looked again at the cylinder and ungovernable terror gripped me. I stood petrified and staring.
A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather. Two large dark-colored eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one might say, a face. There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. The whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively. A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air.
- C: the sense of terror and apprehension in the crowd.
- D: a few had lost their tempers.
- A: Just as aggressive as the men.
- E: the creature opened its mouth.
- A: the slobbering mouth.
Explanation:
Reader comprehension:
- The ability to analyze literature, comprehend its meaning, and integrate it with prior knowledge is known as reading comprehension.
- Knowing the meaning of words, being able to deduce a word's meaning from its context in a passage, being able to follow a passage's organization and spot antecedents and references, being able to draw conclusions about a passage's content, being able to pinpoint a passage's main idea, being able to respond to questions posed in a passage, and being able to identify literary devices or propositional structures ability to ascertain the writer's intention, point of view, and goal as well as develop conclusions about the writer.
1. This is part of a science fiction story. The most important clue to this would be the sense of terror and apprehension in the crowd.
2. The people in the crowd were first ‘elbowing and jostling’ one another
because a few had lost their tempers.
3. The author hints that the women in the crowd were Just as aggressive as the men.
4. The mood of the crowd altered suddenly when the creature opened its mouth.
5. Of the Martian’s features, the one most causing the writer’s disgust and dread was the slobbering mouth.
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