17. Reading Skills Comprehension: Giant

Giant

Read the Passage carefully and answer the following Questions:-

So he crept downstairs and opened the front door quite softly, and went out into the garden. But when the children saw him, they were so frightened that they all ran away, and the garden became winter again. Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes, they are so full of tears that he did not see the Giant coming. And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree. And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sheng on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them around the Giant’s neck, and kissed him. And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the spring. “It is your garden now, little children”, said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall.

Questions

1.’The garden became winter again’. It means that

(a) there was very cold weather in the garden

(b) it became deserted

(d) all the birds flew away

2. What did the Giant due to the little boy?

(a) hit him hard

(b) frightened him very much

(d) took him in his hand and ran away at a fast speed

3. Why couldn’t the boy see the Giant?

(a) his eyes were full of tears

(b) it was very dark