PASSAGE A
“What a curious feeling!” said Alice, “I must be shutting up
like a telescope, “ And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and
her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going
through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited for
a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little
nervous about this: “for might end, you know, “said Alice to herself, “in my
going out altogether, like a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for
she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she
decided on going into the garden at once: but alas for poor Alice” When she got to the door, she found she had
for gotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it,
she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly
trough the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the
table, but it was too slippery; and when she had tired herself out with trying
, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to
herself, rather sharply, “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally
gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it) and
sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and
once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a
game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was
very fond of pretending to be two people. “But it‘s no use now, “though poor
Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there am hardly enough of me left to
make ONE respectable person!”
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under
the table: she opened it, and found in
it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in
currants. “Well, I’ll eat it, “said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I
can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door:
so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!”
She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which
way? Which way? “ holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it
was growing and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same
size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got
so much into the way of expecting nothing but out –of-the –way things to
happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common
way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
1.
On the basis of the passage, which of these
words do you think most appropriately describes lice?
A.
adventurous
B.
timid
C.
enterprising
D.
optimistic
2.
Which of these statements best sums up the
passage?
A.
One should not try everything that looks
inviting.
B.
One should be adventurous and take life as it
comes.
C.
One should never stop trying.
D.
One should pretend to be two people.
3.
“What a curious feeling!” said Alice, “I must be
shutting up like a telescope?” The word curious here means.
A.
Strange
B.
New
C.
Exhilarating
D.
Dull
Answer:
1. A Alice did not hesitate at the prospect of something new , and readitly ate the cake. Her excitemetn at th prospect of exploring a garden in a strange world is aslo indicative of her adventurousness.
2. B Alice's readiness to try anything new, without hesitation , has been presented in a positive light. Therefore, it is that spirit that would best qualify as the sum of the passage.
3. A 'Curious' here means strange, or odd. the answer cannot be 'new' because its novelty is not what she finds remarkable.
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