Question

II. .Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn't throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does 'it' refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
2. "Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man
(i) Who does 'they' refer to?
(ii) What does 'regular' mean here?
(iii) What is it contrasted with?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. i) Tommy said these words.

ii) It' refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a million books.

iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that after reading such books, one would have to throw them away. However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.

2. i) They refer to the students who studied in the old kind of schools centuries before the time the story is set in.

ii) Here, the 'regular' teacher refers to the mechanical teacher who teaches Tommy and Margie.

iii) The mechanical teacher is compared to the teacher , who was a human being and taught centuries ago.

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Answer 2

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Answer:

Q1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”      

1. Who says these words?
2. What does ‘it’ refer to?
3. What is it being compared with by the speaker?

Ans:    

1. Margie says these words.
2. It refers to that real book that Tommy found.
3. The speaker compares it with a telebook.

Q2. “ Sure, they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a man.”  

1. Who does ‘they’ refer to?
2. What does ‘regular’ mean here?
3. What is it contrasted with?

Ans:    

1. ‘They’ refer to the people of the old times.
2. Here, regularly refers to the mechanical teacher then they had.
3. It is contrasted with a normal teacher of earlier times, who was a living human being.