English Reading Comprehension

Once upon a time there lived an old man of 87 whose name was Labon. All his life he had been a quiet and peaceful person. He was very poor and very happy.

What was the age of the old man?

• 87

• 78

When Labon discovered that he had mice in his house, it did not bother him much at first. But the mice multiplied. They began to bother him. They kept on multiplying and finally there came a time when even he could stand it no longer.

Did the mice bother him?

• True

• False

“This is too much,” he said. “This really is going a bit too far.” He hobbled out of the house down the road to a shop where he bought some mousetraps, a piece of cheese and some glue.

What does 'hobbled out' mean?

• came in

• got out

When he got home, he put the glue on the underneath of the mousetraps and stuck them to the ceiling. Then he baited them carefully with pieces of cheese and set them to go off.

Why did he put the glue?

• To take care of them

• To catch them

That night when the mice came out of their holes and saw the mousetraps on the ceiling, they thought it was a tremendous joke.

What does 'tremendous' mean?

• funny

• huge

They walked around on the floor, nudging each other and pointing up with their front paws and roaring with laughter. After all, it was pretty silly, mousetraps on the ceiling.

What does this paragraph mean?

• They were scared of the mouse traps.

• They found it pretty silly.

When Labon came down the next morning and saw that there were no mice caught in the traps, he smiled but said nothing.

Who came down the next morning?

• Labon

• Mice

He took a chair and put glue on the bottom of its legs and stuck it upside-down to the ceiling, near the mousetraps.

What is the opposite of 'bottom'?

• under

• top

Why did Labon want to get rid of the mice?

• He had always hated mice

• There were too many of them.

• They laughed too loudly.

He did the same with the table, the television set and the lamp.

What is the sequence?

• television set, lamp and table

• table, lamp and television set

• table, the television set and lamp