Cinderella
Once upon a time there was a wife of a rich man fell sick, and soon she closed her eyes and departed.
Everyday, Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good. When
winter came, the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by the time the spring sun had drawn it
off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought with her into the house two
daughters, who were beautiful and fairy of face but vile and black of heart. Since then a bad time for the
poor step-child began.
One day the King gave orders for a festival and all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in
order that his son might choose himself a bride. When the two step-sisters heard that they were to
appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and made to help them grooming,
Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to dance, and begged
her step-mother said” you cannot go with us, you have no clothes and cannot dance.
When the step-mother and her daughters had gone away, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave and
cried, Shiver and Quiver, my little tree, silver and gold throw down over me.” Suddenly a bird threw
down a magnificent gold and silver dress to her, and were golden too. At the party her step-sister and
the step-mother however did not recognize her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she
looked so beautiful in the golden dress.
1. The story above tells about
a. Snow White
b. Sleeping Beauty
c. Dwarfs
d. Cinderella
e. Princess
2. The first paragraph is the………… of the story
a. complication
b. reorientation
c. orientation
d. resolution
e. coda
3. Why does Cinderella’s mother dead ? Because she………
a. fell sick
b. fell injured
c. fell disappointed
d. fell ill
e. fell wounded
4. The genre of the text is…….
a. recount
b. procedure
c. narrative
d. legend
e. news item
5. When the winter came, the snow……
a. spread a white sheet
b. spread a white shout
c. spread a shout
d. spread a white sheets
e. spreading white sheet
6. Cinderella lived with her
a. two step-mother
b. her mother
c. two step-sister and step-mother
d. her sisters
e. two step-sister
7. How did her step-mother treat Cinderella ?
a. she allowed go any where
b. she doesn’t her to allow
c. she allows goes every where
d. she didn’t go any where
e. she didn’t allow her go
8. Why couldn’t Cinderella go to the festival?
a. she doesn’t dance
e. she has dance
c. she didn’t dance
d. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance
b. she couldn’t dance
9. The last story called …
a. complication
b. orientation
c. coda
d. resolution
e. twist
10. The step-mother however did not “recognize” her. The same meaning of the word “recognize” is…
a. to see
b. to know
c. to told
d. to talk
e. to tell
THE UGLY DUCKLING
It was bight summer day. The wheat fields had turned golden in the warm sun. Around the wheat fields,
there were meadow of green grass. In the midst of the meadows and fields, stood a farm house. A
stream of clean water flowed past the house. In one of those shady spots on the bank the stream,
among a cluster of shrubs and plants, a mother duck sat on her eggs to hatch them.
After a few days, the shall began to crack and out game five little duckling looked very pretty. The mother
duck was very happy. She stood up to see if the all eggs were hatched. No, there was one large egg-the
sixth one that remained unhatched. It’s shell was harder . But mother was determined to bring every
one of her brood into this world.
What a shock she got when the last egg finally cracked . The new bird was very ugly and much bigger
than the others. “It cannot my baby” shouted the mother duck “I wonder of he is a turkey!” soon, it
seemed that nobody like this duckling. They named him ”Ugly Duckling”. The mother duck never
approved of this rude and treatment.
His bad days had suddenly ended. He was not an ugly duckling after all. Now he changes a beautiful
white swan.
1. The topic of the text is……
a. the turkey
b. ugly duckling
c. the bird
d. the swan
e. the goat
2. The situation of the first paragraph as living
a. in the country
b. in the village
c. in the woods
d. in the city
e. in the forest
3. The genre of this text is………
a. recount
b. news item
c. fable
d. procedure
e. spoof
4. In the last story ugly duckling changes to be
a. swan
b. duck
c. bird
d. goose
e. turkey
5. A mother duck began to crack her eggs in the
a. first paragraph
b. last paragraph
c. the fourth paragraph
d. second paragraph
e. the third paragraph
6. The word “happy” in line 6 has similar meaning with ….
a. sad
b. angry
c. delightful
d. bored
e. confused
7. “She stood up to see ….”, the underlined word in line 6 refers to ….
a. ugly ducking
b. mother duck
c. new bird
d. turkey
e. swan
8. The word “bigger” in line 9 has antonym meaning with ….
a. smaller
b. larger
c. taller
d. shorter
e. thinner
9. What happened when the last egg is cracked?
a. she shocked
b. changed to be a beautiful swan
c. nothing happened
d. the bird was ugly and bigger than others
e. wondered he was a beautiful duck
10. “His bad days ….”, the underlined word refers to ….
a. mother
b. turkey
c. new bird
d. swan
d. duck
