Key to Unit 1 Never Say Goodbye
Page5 Text comprehension
1.Decide which of the following best states the author’s purpose of writing.
C
2.Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
1—5 T T T F F
3.Answer the following questions
1.What made the author’s grandpa cry sadly?
The mere thought of his son’s death in that terrible war in Italy made him cry. 2.How long had Grandpa’s son been in the war?
Three months.
3.What is the implication of the author’s grandpa’s words ―Never say goodbye‖?
They mean ―Never give in to sadness‖.
4.What did Grandpa ask the author to do even if he and his friends had to part?
He asked him to always remember the joy and happiness of the times when he first said hello to his friends.
5.What caused the author to return to the old house?
His grandpa was gravely ill.
6.Why do you think the author’s grandpa smiled at him during his last moments?
His grandpa must have felt greatly relieved when he realized that the author had finally found out the essence of his words.
4.Explain in your own words the following sentences.
1.Our big old house had seen the joys and sorrows of four generations of our
family.
2.I planted these roses a long time ago – before your mother was born.
3.Many son left home to fight against fascists.
4.Take the first friendly greeting and always keep it deep in your heart. Page 6—9 Vocabulary
I.Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.
1.When I was ten I suddenly found myself faced with the anguish of moving from
the only home.
2.…they all share the same characteristic: sadness.
never say goodbye mp33.…in that place in your heart where summer is an everlasting season.
4.Don’t ever let yourself overcome by the sadness and the loneliness of that word.
5.Take that special hello and keep it in your mind and don’t ever forget it.
II.Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word or phrase taken from the box in its
appropriate form.
a.instead 2. Confronted with 3. lock away 4. welled up
5. summon
6. brief
7. stared
8.whispering
9. evil 10. give in
III. Choose a word or phrase that best completes each of the following sentences.
1—4 D B B B 5 – 8 A D B C
IV. Fill in each blank with one of the two words from each pair in its appropriate form and note the difference in meaning between them.
1.shudder & shake
a.shaking
b. shuddered
c. shaking
d. shuddered
2.answer & reply
1.answer b. reply c. reply d. answered
www./doc/2015115301.html,mon & general
a.general
b. general
c. general; common
d. common
4.small & tiny
a.small
b. tiny
c. tiny
d. small
5.Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the
sense it is used.
IV.anguish: pain, grief, sorrow, agony
V.softly: loudly, harshly, roughly
VI.sadness: sorrow, grief, dismay
spicuously: inconspicuously, unnoticeably
VIII.tiny: small, little
IX.part: meet, gather
X.gravely: seriously, severely, hopelessly
XI.brief: lengthy, long
6.Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate form of the given
capitalized word in brackets.
1.industrial
2. description
3. suspicion
4.assistant
5. unemployed
6. proof
7.examination 8. Farther
Page 10—12 Grammar
www./doc/2015115301.html,plete the following sentences using the simple past, past progressive or
past
perfect.
a.were bathing; were looking; were playing
b.was sitting; was reading
c.was leaving; was; arrived; learned; had left; found; had used
d.were playing; heard; hid; took
e.was cycling; stepped; was going; managed; didn’t hit
f.gave; thanked; said; had enjoyed; knew; had not read; were
g.had played; reached; entered
h.was running; struck
www./doc/2015115301.html,plete the following passage with the proper form of the verbs given.
left; spent; had been travelling; appeared; was; were crossing; could; arrived; was sleeping; stopped; came; were getting; was; had not arrived; would be
III.Correct the errors, where found, in the following sentences.
1.talked →was talking
2.√
3.had remembered →remembered
4.was working →had been working
5.had resigned →resigned
6.√
7.√
8.√
IV.Fill in each blank with the proper form of the verb in brackets.
1.take
2. to play
3. lifted
4. barking
5. played
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