Question

Comprehension
Read the story and answer the questions that follow.
The Man with the Coconuts
One day a man who had been to gather
coconuts loaded his horse heavily with the fruit.
On the way home he met a boy whom he asked
how long it would take to reach the house.
If you go slowly,' said the boy, looking at the
load on the horse, you will arrive very
soon; but
if you go fast, it will take you all day.'
The man could not believe this strange speech,
so he hurried his horse. But the coconuts fell
off, and he had to stop to pick them up. Then
he hurried his horse all the more to make up
for lost time, but the coconuts fell off again. He
did this many times, and it was night when he
reached home.

A. Answer these questions.
1. What had the man set out to gather?
2. Whom did the man meet on the way home?

3. What do you think the boy meant?
4. Suggest an alternative title to this story.
5. List the pronouns in the story. Also mention the nouns that they replace.
B. Find words in the passage that mean the following:
1. collect

2.reach

3.odd
4. pushed on​

Answer 1

1 ans . he set out the coconuts to gather

2ans. he meet a boy on the way home

3ans. he is a stranger

4 ans the stranger , man and the horse

5 ans didn't understand

Answer 2

Answer:

1 ans coconut

2 ans a boy

3 ans stranger

4 ans gather coconut