Question

Pahom was a hard-working, honest peasant, but he had no land of his own. Even though, we have illed mother earth since childhood," he would often say to his family, "we peasants will always die as we are living. If only we had our own land, it would be different" Very close to Pahom's village, there lived a lady who owned an estate of about three hundred acres. One winter Pahom carme to know that she was going to sell her land. He also heard that a neighbour of his was buying fifty acres and that the lady had agreed to accept one half of the price in cash and to wait year for the other half. "We must also buy at least twenty acres", he said to his wife. "Life is becoming worthless without land of our So Pahom and his wife put their heads together and thought of a way to buy it. They had laid by one hundred roubles. They sold a colt and borrowed some money from a relative and thus scraped together half of the money needed to purchase the land. Having done this, Pahom chose a farm of forty acres and went to the lady and bought it. Now Pahom was a hard-working peasant. It was not difficult for him to raise a good harvest that season Within a year, he managed to pay off his debts. So, he became a landowner, ploughing and sowing his own land, making hay in his own land and feeding his cattle on his own pasture. Whenever he went to plough his fields his heart would fill with joy. The grass that grew and the flowers that bloomed there, seemed to him unlike any that grew elsewhere Then, one day, Pahom happened to meet a peasant who had come from beyond the Volga river where he was working. One word led to another and the man went on to say that much land was for sale there. "It was so good." he said, "that the rye sown on it grew as high as a horse and so thick that five cuts of a sickle made a sheaf." Pahom's heart was filled with desire. ""Why should I suffer in this narrow hole" he thought, "if one can live SO well elsewhere?" So Pahom sold his land and homestead and cattle, all at a profit, and moved his family to the new settlement. Everything the peasant had told him was true and Pahom was ten times better off than he had been. He bought plenty of arable land and pasture and could keep as many heads of cattle as he liked. complete the following sentences 1) Pahom always regretted that ......................... 2) Pahom bought a farm of forty acres by......................... 3) He worked Hard in his land to ......................................... 4) Soon he became landowner who could now ........................... ........... 5) As soon as pahom got a better option he decided to …..................................... …6) Phon was very happy with his family in the new settlement because ....................................​

Answer 1

Answer:

2 by the lady

3 pay off his loan and to grow good harvest

4 plough, sow seeds , feed cattle on his own pasture

5 buy a new piece of land

6 the new land is better and he has more space to put cattle

Answer 2

pahom always regretted that