Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given b

1.	Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:Saturday morning came, all the summer world was bright and fresh, and full of life. There was a song in every heart and cheerfulness in every face. Tom appeared with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He looked at the fence and what he saw took away all gladness from his heart.Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high! Singing, he dipped his brush; passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again compared the small whitewashed space with the vast area of Aunt Polly’s unwhite-washed fence, and sat down discouraged.He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day and his sorrow multiplied. Soon the free boys would be coming, tripping along all sorts of interesting expeditions and they would make fun of him for having to work. The thought burned him like fire.(1) How was the Saturday morning?(2) What was the work assigned to Tom?(3) Why did Tom feel discouraged?(4) Write two sentences from the passage that expresses Tom’s feeling of sadness.
Answer» 1. It was a summer morning. It was bright and fresh, quite rejuvenating. Everybody seemed quite cheerful and happy at heart. 2. Tom was assigned the work of whitewashing the fence. 3. The sight of the vast area of Aunt Polly’s unwhite-washed fence, and the fact that he would have to paint it discouraged Tom. 4. What he saw, took away all gladness from his heart, His sorrow multiplied.

Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions given below them:Saturday morning came, all the summer world was bright and fresh, and full of life. There was a song in every heart and cheerfulness in every face. Tom appeared with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He looked at the fence and what he saw took away all gladness from his heart.Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high! Singing, he dipped his brush; passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again compared the small whitewashed space with the vast area of Aunt Polly’s unwhite-washed fence, and sat down discouraged.He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day and his sorrow multiplied. Soon the free boys would be coming, tripping along all sorts of interesting expeditions and they would make fun of him for having to work. The thought burned him like fire.(1) How was the Saturday morning?(2) What was the work assigned to Tom?(3) Why did Tom feel discouraged?(4) Write two sentences from the passage that expresses Tom’s feeling of sadness.

Answer»

1. It was a summer morning. It was bright and fresh, quite rejuvenating. Everybody seemed quite cheerful and happy at heart.

2. Tom was assigned the work of whitewashing the fence.

3. The sight of the vast area of Aunt Polly’s unwhite-washed fence, and the fact that he would have to paint it discouraged Tom.