44. Reading Skills Comprehension: Tomatoes

Tomatoes

Read the passage given below carefully:                                                                                        

 Bunol in Spain is famous for its produce-tomatoes. But it is known for the habit of wearing the produce as well as tasting it. On the last Wednesday of every August Bunol hosts La Tomatina, the world’s largest vegetable fight.

La Tomatina started with a good laugh. During the forties in Bunol’s main town square, a number of friends started a tomato fight for unknown reasons. Soon enough, however, with their rowdy hooliganism drawing passers-by into the fray, everyone got involved. They had so much fun, in fact, that from that day onward, it has been celebrated annually and has grown ever bigger each year. The night before La Tomatina, the narrow streets beneath the town’s imposing Medieval Belltower are filled with tomatoes. Early Wednesday morning. large trucks rumble up the cobblestone streets to arrive in the crowd filled square and from the back of the huge trucks, people begin throwing tomatoes on the others.

Soon the streets are awash in seeds, pulp and tomato peels. The madness continues until more than 90,000 pounds of tomatoes have been hurled at anything with a pulse that runs. Like all good battles, the attack is over in less than half an hour. Everyone moves towards the river to wash the saucy mess from their hair and body.

1 On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes on it in points only, using headings and sub-headings. Also use recognizable abbreviations, wherever necessary. Supply a suitable title.

2. Write a summary of the above passage in about 50 words.

Ans:-

La Tomatina

1. La — Tomatina – its meaning

(a) Tomato fight

 (b) started in Bunol in Spain.

2. The beginning of La – Tomatina

 (a) two friends fought with tomato

(b) for unknown reasons

(c) others joined them.

3. Time to celebrate.

(a) the last wed6).

(b) in August.

4. Peer” for the celebration

 (a) Tomatoes filled the street

(b) Near Belltower

(c) People hurl tomatoes behind the trucks.

5. After effects

(a) Almost 90,000 pounds tomatoes wasted.

(b) Streets covered with.

(c) People go to the river to wash their body.

Notes

 

             Prep°.       –       Preparation

            Wed day   –      Wednesday

            Pds.            –      Pounds.

 2. Summary:

La Tomatina is a tomato fight that started in Bunol in Spain. There is a very interesting story about the beginning of this fight. Once two friends started throwing tomatoes at each other in the market. Other people were so impressed by it, that they also started throwing tomatoes at one other. Since then this fight is celebrated on the last Wednesday of August every year. People first gather tomatoes in the market and then throw them at each other. A total of about 90,000 pd. tomatoes are wasted on this festival.

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