UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE READ
A. Tick (✓) the right word.
1. The crocodile's smile was ________
a. clever
b. curious
c. cunning
Answer- cunning
2. The crocodile's teeth required ___________
a. repair
b. removal
c. refilling
Answer- repair
3. The dentist's face turned _________
3. The dentist's face turned _________
a. red
b. white
c. blue
Answer- white
4. The dentist's __________
a. quivered and quaked
b. quaked, quivered and shook
c. shook
Answer- quaked, quivered and shook
5. The crocodile wanted the dentist to first look at his __________
a. canines
b. incisors
c. molars
Answer- molars
6. The crocodile's jaws were ________
a. big
b. massive
c. huge
Answer- massive
B. Think carefully and answer the following questions.
1. What signs showed that the dentist was really afraid?
1. What signs showed that the dentist was really afraid?
Answer- The dentist's face was turned white. He quivered, quaked and shook. It showed that the dentist was really afraid.
2. What made the crocodile's teeth a fearsome sight?
Answer- Approx three hundred pointed, sharp and shining white teeth made the crocodile's teeth fearsome sight.
3. Which teeth did the crocodile want the dentist to examine first? Why?
Answer- The crocodile wanted the dentist to examine the back teeth first because the crocodile wanted the dentist to come closer to his mouth.
4. Why did the dentist choose the longest probe?
Answer- The dentist got understand the crocodile's cunning idea and he didn't want to come closer to him. So he choosed the longest probe.
5. Why did the dentist wring his hands and weep in despair?
Answer- Due to the anxiety and fear, the dentist wrung his hands and wept in despair because he was afraid of putting his head into the crocodile's mouth.
6. How do we know she was a rich lady?
Answer- The lady was rich because she wore a golden chain in her hand.
7. Why did the dentist shriek and start climbing up the wall?
Answer- The dentist thought that crocodile was playing a trick and wanted to eat him that's why dentist shrunk and started climbing up the wall.
8. Why did the lady call the dentist a 'twit'?
Answer- Due to the fear, the dentist started climbing on the wall and said to the lady the crocodile ate both of them. So the lady called the dentist a 'twit.'
1. extremely large
SPELLING AND VOCABULARY
A. Find words in the poem that have the following meanings.1. extremely large
Answer- huge
2. talked softly so he couldn't be heard
Answer- muttered
3. in a hopeless situation
Answer- despair
4. Screamed loudly
Answer- shrieked
5. Wide, bright, wonderful
Answer- gorgeous
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