168 Taleju - English Practice Book - VII F.
A man
Construct a readable story from the outlines in the box given
below and give a suitable title to it:
a brave and faithful mongoose
mistress go out - small child alone in the house - a big snake
come up - is killed
- the mongoose's mouth covered with
blood - kill it - find the child safe and sound - Moral.
master and
3.. Construct a readable story from the outlines in the box given
below and give a suitable title to it:
Once - a hard working ant and a grasshopper - ant worked
all summer and collected food for winter - grasshopper
spent by singing - went to the ant - to beg food in the winter
the ant told him to go and dance - Moral.
4.
Construct a readable story from the outlines in the box given
below and give a suitable title to it:
A woman's only one son is dead - goes to Lord Buddha -
begs to bring her son to life - Lord Buddha asks to bring a
handful of mustard seeds from a house where nobody has
died - she gets no such house - Moral.​

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Read the paragraph. theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reform. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the wealthy and powerful corporations and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities. which sentence is the thesis of this paragraph? theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reforms. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the people and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities.

What aspects of a story the reader understand the authors purpose