Alice was beginning to get very bored. She and her sister were sitting under the trees. Her sister was reading, but Alice had nothing to do. Once or twice she looked into her sister’s book, but it had no pictures or conversations in it.
“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” She tried to think of something to do, but it was a hot day and she felt very sleepy.
Suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran past her. There was nothing really strange about seeing a rabbit. And Alice was not very surprised when the rabbit said, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”
But then the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket, looked at it and hurried away. At once Alice jumped to her feet. “I’ve never seen a rabbit with either a pocket, or a watch before,” she thought. And she ran quickly across the field after the rabbit. She did not stop to think. When the rabbit ran down a large rabbit hole, Alice followed it immediately.
After a little way, the rabbit hole suddenly went down, deep into the ground. Alice could not stop herself falling, and she went down too.
It was a very strange hole. Alice was falling very slowly, and she had time to think and to look around. She could see nothing below her because it was so dark. But when she looked at the sides of the hole, she could see cupboards, books and pictures on the walls. She had time to take things out of a cupboard, look at them and then put them back in a cupboard lower down.
“Well!” thought Alice. “After a fall like this, I can fall anywhere! I can fall downstairs at home, and I won’t cry or say a word about it!”
Down, down, down. “How far have I fallen now?” Alice said aloud to herself. “Perhaps I’m near the centre of the earth. Let me think... That’s four thousand miles down.”
Alice was very nearly asleep when, suddenly, she was sitting on the ground.
—Taken from Alice in Wonderland
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B
) 1. What was Alice doing when the rabbit ran by?
A. Reading a book. B. Doing nothing but think. C. Making a flower chain. D. Running across the field.
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D
) 2. How was Alice feeling when the rabbit took out a watch and looked at it?
A. Tired. B. Bored. C. Excited. D. Strange.
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A
) 3. What does the underlined word “immediately” in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Quickly. B. Slowly. C. Happily. D. Usually.
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C
) 4. What is the CORRECT order of what happened to Alice in the story?
a. A white rabbit ran past Alice.
b. Alice’s sister was reading a book.
c. Alice saw cupboards, books and pictures.
d. Alice saw the rabbit take out a watch from its pocket.
A. a-b-c-d B. a-c-d-b C. b-a-d-c D. b-c-a-d
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D
) 5. What does the story mainly tell us?
A. It was one of Alice’s boring days.
B. Alice was excited to read with her sister.
C. Alice met her friend, a rabbit, for the first time.
D. Alice ran after a rabbit and fell down a large hole.
