Read the passage and answer the following questions:
To the best of my knowledge, there’s never been a rule that forbids one to keep
pets in a space station.
Claribel weighed practically nothing, her food requirements were minimal and
she was not worried, as most animals would have been, by the absence of gravity.
I first became aware that Claribel was aboard the space station when I was sitting in
my office, checking through my lists to decide what items we would be running out
next. When I heard the musical whistle beside my ear, I assumed that it had come
over the station intercom, and waited for an announcement to follow. It didn’t:
instead, there was a long involved pattern of melody that made me look up with
such a start. It was then that I had my first view of Claribel. She as a small yellow
canary, hanging in the air as motionless as a hummingbird and with much less
effort for her wings were quietly folded along her sides. We stared at each other for
a minute; then, before I had quite recovered my wits, she did a curious kind of
backward loop no earthbound canary had ever managed and departed with a few
leisurely flicks. It was quite obvious that she’d already learned how to operate in
the absence of gravity, and did not believe in doing unnecessary work.
a. What was the narrator doing when he first saw Claribel?
b. Why do you think that having Claribel aboard was a sensible selection?
c. How did canary adapt to the absence of gravity?
d. Find out words from the passage that mean the opposite of the following:
i. permit ii. maximal
iii. presence iv. hurriedly
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a) The narrator was sitting his office, checking through his lists to decide what items they would be running out of next.
d) permit - forbid
maximal - minimal
presence - absence
hurriedly - leisurely
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