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Comprehension
Answering questions based on a story

Read the story carefully and answer the questions that follow. Write the numbers of the correct
answers in the brackets provided.

“He’s tall, much taller than you, I’m sure,” Chloe whispered into the telephone, her hand cupped over
her mouth.

“What else?” came the bored reply. The other party tried to stifle a yawn.

“I don’t know. There’s nothing much else that stands out. Oh, wait a minute! There’s a scar running
down the side of his left cheek,” Chloe’s voice rose a notch and the girl on the other end could hear her
best friend’s excitement. “He has beady eyes and thick eyebrows and very thin lips. He reminds me of
Mr Withers, the school gardener, only much more sinister.”

Now, Megan’s interest was aroused. The neighbourhood was usually quiet and there were hardly any
strangers around. Pressing the receiver to her ear as she continued to listen to Chloe’s description of the
man and his actions, Megan walked to the window and peered out. From where she was, she could only
see a corner of the back of the man. “Yes, yes,” she whispered back, “I see the black bag. It looks like a
doctor’s bag, but he certainly doesn’t look like one. Do you think, maybe … oh, no … I don’t even want to
think about that, but do you think maybe it contains tools? You know, those tools they were talking about
on ‘Crime Night’ yesterday? I thought our neighbourhood was safe … but now, I don’t know, Chloe. What
do you think?”

However, the line had gone dead. Megan looked out the window and a chill coursed through her body.
The man was nowhere in sight. Had Chloe done the unthinkable? Chloe had always been very rash. Just
then, there was a knock on her door. Megan rushed to open it, thinking that Chloe had come over. “Ah!”
she screamed and backed away, but the man with the dark red scar down the side of his cheek walked
towards her. “What do you want?” Megan stammered. “What did you do to Chloe?”

The man stared at Megan blankly and put his finger to his lips. “Chloe is your friend? She shouldn’t
have interfered. If she hadn’t come out of her house, she would have been safe. If you had just stayed in
your room instead of peering behind the curtains, you would have been safe too.”

Leaping towards Megan suddenly, the man grabbed her hands, deftly tied them up with a thick rope
and locked her in one of the rooms. Then he breezed through the house indifferently, throwing valuables
into a black rubbish bag that he had taken out from the doctor’s bag.
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Comprehension
Answering questions based on a story

1 When Chloe first spoke to Megan, Megan was .

(1) excited
(2) curious
(3) annoyed
(4) uninterested ( )

2 Chloe was afraid of the man because .

(1) he looked dangerous
(2) he looked like the school gardener
(3) she knew that he had something dangerous planned
(4) she did not like strangers ( )

3 Megan thought that the black bag might contain .

(1) a shovel and a watering can
(2) a stethoscope and syringes
(3) a hammer and rope
(4) jewellery and money ( )

4 What did Megan think was the ‘unthinkable’ thing that Chloe had done?
(1) notified the police
(2) ran to Megan’s house
(3) confronted the man
(4) called her parents ( )

5 The word ‘ ’ tells you that the man was confident and unafraid of robbing Megan’s
house.
(1) breezed
(2) blankly
(3) deftly
(4) indifferently ( )

3. (3) 4. (3) Answers: 1. (4) 2. (1)

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Grammar
To-infinitives

Fill in each blank with ‘to’ and a suitable verb.

1 Jasmine uses a magnifying glass for clues in her backyard. She wants to be
a detective.

2 Little Peter decided the door even though he did not know who was there.

3 The strong man managed across the English Channel.

4 The police want the public forward if they have any clues about the
robbery.

5 Mrs Pringles agreed a lookout for strangers when her neighbour was
away.

Suggested Answers: 1. to search 2. to open 3. to swim 4. to come 5. to keep

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Grammar
To-infinitives

Fill in each blank with ‘to’ and a suitable verb.

1 The tenant was a strange man who liked two pairs of socks with his shoes.

2 The strange creature with the white face and long hair standing in front of me wanted
me a container with a colourful liquid inside. I refused to buy it.

3 The man loitering at the void deck tried to a young girl, but she ran away.

4 The lady waited at the door because she wanted out who had been sending
her flowers every day.

5 I decided a neighbourhood watch group with my neighbours.

5. to form Suggested Answers: 1. to wear 2. to sell 3. to speak 4. to find

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Grammar
Infinitive clauses

Fill in the blanks with suitable infinitive clauses from the box. Use each clause once only.

to find the person who wrote the letter

to steal the one thousand dollars the store owner had placed in the cash register
to prevent anyone from coming into the house
to find out who had destroyed the flowerbed in their garden

1 Sam and his father questioned everyone they suspected

2 Someone broke the window of the convenience store and tried

3 ,
Mr Davis built a tall fence around it.

4 ,
the detectives studied the handwriting carefully.

from coming into the house 4. To find the person who wrote the letter
Answers: 1. to find out who had destroyed the flowerbed in their garden 2. to steal the one thousand dollars the store owner had placed in the cash register 3. To prevent anyone