4000 Essential English Words

Reading Comprehension

PART o Mark each statement T for true or F for false. Rewrite the false

statements to make them true.

1. The nurse was usually a vivacious woman who constantly chattered.
   2. The nursery was far from the freeway that was near Rabbit Cove.
   3. When it started to deteriorate, the nurse zipped up the jacket she had brought
   beforehand.
   4. The temperature was close to zero degrees centigrade.
   5. When the nurse heard a concerto playing in another room, she became hospitable.

PART O Answer the questions.

1. Where did the dark and winding trail lead?


2. Who took the nurse’s outstretched hand and welcomed her with a hearty voice?
   3. How did the nurse feel when she saw the profile of a man coming to answer the door?
   4. What had condensed on the exterior of the monastery’s windows?
   5. What was in the parcel that the nurse took back to the manor?