Gulliver's Travels Reading Comprehension

 Passage 1

It was impossible for me to climb because every step was six feet high. I was trying to find a gap in the hedge when I discovered one of the inhabitants in the next field walking towards the fence. He was of the same size as the creature chasing the boat. I was struck with utmost fear and astonishment and ran to hide myself. He called in a voice much louder than a trumpet. It sounded like thunder! Seven monsters like him came towards the field ready to reap the corn. They carried a reaping hook which was very big. When one of the reapers approached where I lay hidden I screamed as loud as I could. The creature stopped reaping, picked me up between his thumb and forefinger and brought me close to his eyes, sixty feet above the ground. He looked at me with curiosity and blew my hair aside to get a better view of my face.

Answer the following questions.

1. Why was it impossible for Gulliver to climb?

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2. Why was he trying to find a gap ?

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3. How was the inhabitant's voice ?

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4. How many inhabitants came to reap the corn?

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5. Why did the creature stop reaping?

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6. Where did he hold Gulliver?

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7. How high was the monster?

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8. Why did the monster blow Gulliver's hair?

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9. Write the opposite of 'better' ?

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10. The V1 form of the word 'lay' is ____________________________________________

Passage 2

The farmer took me to his house and placed me at some distance on the dining table which was thirty feet high from the floor.

                Dinner was brought for the farmer in a dish which was ten feet in diameter. The farmer's wife crumbled some bread and placed it before me. In the middle of the dinner I heard a noise behind me. It was the purring of a cat that was ten times larger than an ox. The farmer's wife was stroking him. Then entered the farmer's one year-old son in the arms of a lady. On seeing me the child grabbed me from the table and put my head into his mouth. I shouted so loudly that the baby dropped me. 

Answer the following questions.

1. 'The farmer took me to his house'.  Who does 'me' refer to ?

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2. How high was the dining table?

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3. What did the farmer's wife give Gulliver to eat?

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4. What was the size of the cat?

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5. How old was the farmer's son?

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6. What did the child do with Gulliver?

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7. Why did the baby drop Gulliver?

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8. Which word in the passage means 'pick suddenly'?

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9. Make a sentence by using the word 'crumbled'.

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10. The comparative degree of the word 'loud' is __________________________________

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