NGRT - Cat's Eyes

In 1933, a Yorkshireman called Percy Shaw, was driving _____________ down a winding country lane, swaying a little from side to side.

• lazily

• deliberately

• dangerously

•     cautiously

• quickly

________________, as if out of nowhere, two bright eyes sprang out of the darkness, staring at him intensely.

• Lastly

• Unfortunately

•    Therefore

• Suddenly

• Finally

. It was then that he realized that the ____________were real and that they belonged to a cat which had perched itself on a wall at the roadside.

• illusions

• eyes

• stories

• fangs

• ideas

What did Percy do just after he stopped on the road?

•     He fainted as a result of the shock.

• He searched for the cat's lost collar.

• He found an injured cat by the roadside.

• He waited until he had calmed down a bit.

Which word in the sentence beginning 'By the time he reached his house...' develops the idea of the 'seed' in the previous sentence?

   

• grow

•     begun

• hour

•   time

• reached

Look at paragraph 4 (beginning 'Percy, who lived...').

What is the author's purpose in giving us the information about the three television sets?

• He wants us to be disgusted about the waste of electricity.

•    He wants to give us as much information about Percy as he can.

• He wants to give an example of Percy's eccentricity.

• He wants to advertise the advantages of television.

• tell us what television was like when there were only three channels.

Which key word connects an aspect of Percy's character detailed in paragraph 4, and the invention of cat's eyes described in paragraph 5?

• inspired

•   empty

• design

•      simplicity

• eccentric

Why are the words 'Reflecting Roadstuds' in quotation marks?

•   because it's a name

• to show someone is speaking

• because it's a quote from the text

• to indicate that it is not a real name

• because that's what the company makes