10 form I term

1 Read the text and mark (+) the following statements «True» or «False».
Once there was a man who had three daughters and was a single parent to his children. One morning he asked his
eldest daughter, Sonya, to wash the breakfast dishes before going to school. But she was already running late, so
she burst into tears. The father decided that she was just trying to get out of an unpleasant chore, and he
demanded that she dry her tears and get back to work immediately. She silently obeyed him, but that day they
were driving to school in silence. The man dropped his daughters and moved to the office. He tried to work but
couldn’t concentrate — all he could see was his daughter’s scared, tear-stained face as she climbed out of the car.
So he decided to say sorry to his daughter. He took permission from the school to take his daughter for lunch. When
she came out, he turned towards his daughter and said, «Sonya, I am sorry. It’s not that I shouldn’t have asked you
to help out at home, but I had no right to it this morning without any previous warning. I upset you at a time when
you most needed my love and support. And I let you go without saying «I love you. Please forgive me.» Sonya put
her arms around her father’s neck and said, «Oh, Dad, of course I forgive you. I love you too.»
True False
1 The man in the story had no wife.
2 Sonya had a brother and a sister.
3 Sonya was the eldest child.
4 It was Sonya’s duty to wash the dishes every morning.
5 Sonya didn’t want to wash the dishes because she didn’t like it.
6 The father was rude to his daughter.
7 Sonya didn’t obey her father.
8 Sonya got to school by bus that day.
9 The father felt guilty and couldn’t say a word.
10 Sonya easily forgave her father.
1 Read the text and mark (+) the following statements «True» or «False».
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time
he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence.
Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled
down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came
when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull
out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to
tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said,
«You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say
things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.» You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter
how many times you say «I’m sorry», the wound is still there. Make sure you control your temper the next time you
are tempted to say something you will regret later, because spoken words once out never come back.
True False
1 The main character in the story was kind and good-natured.
2 His father gave him a bag of nails in order to build a fence.
3 First, the boy drove many nails into the fence.
4 Driving nails into the fence taught the boy to control his anger.
5 For the boy it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
6 Finally the day came when there were no nails left.
7 The boy was told to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.
8 The nails left holes in the fence.
9 The father wanted the boy to repair the fence.
10 Using the example of the fence the father wanted to demonstrate that words can be as painful as a knife.