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Passage Comprehension - with answers - 6th standard(grade)

    

Passage Comprehension

 

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

    One day a man who had been to gather coconuts loaded his horse heavily with the fruit. On the way home he met a boy whom he asked how long it would take to reach the house. 'If you go slowly;' said the boy, looking at the load on the horse, 'you will arrive very soon; but if you go fast, it will take you all day.'

    The man could not believe this strange speech, so he hurried his horse. But the coconuts fell off, and he had to stop to pick them up. Then he hurried his horse all the more to make up for lost time, but the coconuts fell off again. He did this many times, and it was night when he reached home..


Questions

1. What had the man set out to gather?

2. Whom did the man meet on the way home?

3. What do you think the boy meant?

4. When did the man reach home?

5. Suggest a title to this story.


Answers

1. The man set out to gather coconuts.

2. He met a boy on the way home.

3. The boy meant that if the man went slow the coconuts would not fell down and so he might reach home early.

4. The man reached home at night.

5. "Coconut merchant and wise boy"


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