Reading Comprehension (9)

White bridge was small village, and old people often came and lived there. Some of them had a lot of old furniture, and they often did not want some of it, because they were in a smaller house now, so every Saturday morning they put it out, and other people came and looked at it, and sometimes they took it away because they wanted it.

Every Saturday, Mr and Mrs Morton put a very ugly old bear’s head out at the side of their gates, but nobody wanted it. Then last Saturday, they wrote, ‘I’m very lonely here. Please take me,’ on a piece of paper and put it near the bear’s head.

They went to the town, and came home in the evening. There were now two bears’ heads in front of their house, and there was another piece of paper. It said, ‘I was lonely too.’

          တံတားျဖဴဆိုတာ ရြာငယ္ေလးတစ္ရြာျဖစ္ၿပီး အသက္အရြယ္ႀကီးသူေတြက မၾကာခဏဆိုသလို အဲဒီကို လာၿပီးေနၾကတယ္။ သူတို႔ေတြထဲက တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕မွာ ပရိေဘာဂ အေဟာင္းေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိၾကတယ္၊ သူတို႔ေတြက ခုအခ်ိန္မွာ အိမ္ေသးေသးေလးမွာ ေနၾကရတဲ့အတြက္ အဲဒီ ပရိေဘာအခ်ိဳ႕ကို မလိုခ်င္ၾကဘူး၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ စေနေန႔ မနက္ခင္းတိုင္း အဲဒီပရိေဘာဂေတြကို အိမ္အျပင္ဘက္ထုတ္ထား ခဲ့ၾကတယ္၊ အျခားသူေတြက လာလာၾကည့္ၿပီးေတာ့ လိုခ်င္တဲ့အတြက္ သူတို႔က တစ္ခါတစ္ေလ ယူသြားၾကတယ္။

          စေနေန႔တိုင္း မစၥတာ နဲ႔ မစၥ ေမာ္တင္ တို႔က အလြန္ အ႐ုပ္ဆိုးတဲ့ ဝက္ဝံေခါင္းပံု ပရိေဘာဂ တစ္ခုကို သူတို႔အိမ္ရဲ႕ အေပါက္ဝမွာ ထားခဲ့ၾကတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဘယ္သူကမွ အဲဒါကို မလိုခ်င္ၾကဘူး။ ဒီလိုနဲ႔ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ စေနေန႔က “ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တစ္ေယာက္တည္း အထီးက်န္ေနပါတယ္၊ ေက်းဇူးျပဳၿပီး  ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကို ေခၚသြားၾကပါ” လို႔ စာရြက္တစ္ရြက္ေပၚမွာ စာေရးၿပီးေတာ့ ဝက္ဝံေခါင္းရဲ႕ ေဘးမွာ ထားခဲ့ ၾကတယ္။

          သူတို႔ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ၿမိဳ႕ထဲကို သြားၾကတယ္ ၿပီးေတာ့ ညေနပိုင္းမွာ ျပန္လာၾကတယ္၊ ခုေတာ့ သူတို႔အိမ္ေရွ႕မွာ “ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္းပဲ အထီးက်န္ေနခဲ့တယ္” လို႔ ေရးထားတဲ့ အျခားစာရြက္တစ္ရြက္နဲ႔ ဝက္ဝံေခါင္း ႏွစ္ေခါင္းျဖစ္ေနပါေတာ့တယ္။

         

A.  Which of these sentences are true (T) and which are false (F)?

1.    White bridge was a big village.

2.    A lot old people lived in White bridge.

3.    They put out their furniture every Sunday.

4.    The bear’s head was very ugly.

5.    Nobody wanted the bear’s head.

6.    There were now three bears’ heads.

B.  Answer these questions.

1.    Why did old people in White bridge often sell their old furniture?

2.    Where did they put it?

3.    What did Mr and Mrs Morton put out every Saturday?

4.    What did they write on a piece of paper?

5.    Where did they put the paper?

6.    What did they find at the side of their gate when they came home in the evening?

7.    What was near the bears’ heads?

8.    What did the piece of paper say?

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Reading Comprehension (8)  မွ အေျဖမ်ား

A.  (1) False     (2) True             (3) True           (4) False          (5) False

(6) True

B.   

(1) She was a teacher.

(2) She had small children in her class.

(3) They often lost clothes.

(4) She found two small blue gloves.

(5) She asked the children, ‘Whose gloves are these?’

(6) No one answered.

(7) She asked him, ‘Haven’t you got blue gloves, Dick?’

(8) He answered, ‘Yes, miss, but those can’t be mine. I’ve lost mine.’

          သင္ခန္းစာ (၈) မွာ စကားလံုးအသံုးအႏႈန္းပိုင္း အတြက္ frequency adverb မ်ား အေၾကာင္းကို ေျပာျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခုခုကို လုပ္ေလ့လုပ္ထရွိတဲ့ အႀကိမ္အေရအတြက္ အေပၚမွာ မူတည္ၿပီးေတာ့ never, seldom, rarely, sometimes, often, normally, usually, always စတဲ့ Adverb ေတြကို အသံုးျပဳႏုိင္ ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာလို အတိအက် ဘာသာျပန္ဖို႔အတြက္ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ စကားလံုးေတြဟာ အနည္းငယ္ ခက္ခဲႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေဖာ္ျပပါ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းေတြ အေပၚမူတည္ကာ အသံုးျပဳႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

Never – 0 %

Seldom – 5 %

Rarely – 10 %

Sometimes – 30 %

Often – 70 %

Normally – 80 %

Usually – 80 %

Always – 100 %

-       I never watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ တီဗြီ မၾကည့္ဘူး၊ တီဗီြလံုးဝမၾကည့္ဘူး)

-       I seldom watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တီဗီြၾကည့္ခဲတယ္။)

-       I rarely watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တီဗီြၾကည့္တာ ရွားတယ္။)

-       I sometimes watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တစ္ခါတစ္ေလေတာ့ တီဗီြၾကည့္တယ္။)

-       I often watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ မၾကာခဏ တီဗီြၾကည့္တယ္။)

-       I normally watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တီဗီြ ပံုမွန္ ၾကည့္ျဖစ္တယ္။)

-       I usually watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အၿမဲတမ္းလိုလို တီဗီြ ၾကည့္တယ္။)

-       I always watch TV. (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အၿမဲတမ္း တီဗီြၾကည့္တယ္။)

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