Question

3. Read the given extract and answer the following questions.
“Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and
hundreds of years ago”. He added loftily
a. Who is ‘he’ in above lines?
b. “Our kind of school’. What kind of school they have ?
c. Trace the word from the extract that means “In a superior way”.

Answer 1

a) Tommy
b) An online school on their computer
c) loftily

Answer 2

Answer :

The given extract has been taken from the short story 'The Fun They Had' by Isaac Asimov.

a. In the above lines, 'he' refers to Tommy.

b. They have futuristic classrooms with television screens for blackboards, punch code for language and mechanical teachers.

c. The word from the given extract that means “In a superior way” is 'loftily.'

Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'loftily' as 'in a way that shows you think you are better than other people.'