Exercises

1. Fill in the articles.

_____ queen liked me so much, that she never had dinner without me. At dinner-time my table and chair were put on____ queen’s table near her plate. Glumdalclitch stood on ____ low stool on ____ floor near my table to take care of me. Glumdalclitch kept them in ____ silver box in her pocket and always washed them herself. _____ queen used to put _____ little piece of meat on my plate, and it gave her_____ great pleasure to see how I cut it with my knife and fork and ate it. One of____ pieces of meat which ____ queen herself put into her mouth was big enough to feed ten English farmers.

2. Match the parts of the sentences.

I had my own plates, spoons, knives and forks	me in my box upon a window, to give me air.
I did not like to look at	at the table to eat a piece of sweet cake for breakfast.
I remember, one fine morning, Glumdalclitch put	and I quickly shut my window.
I opened one of my windows and sat down	her when she was eating.
I killed four of them, the rest flew away,	which were like toys to these people.

3. Find in the text who said the following:

________ often asked me, “Are all the people of your country as great cowards as you?”

4. Find in the text why the queen called Gulliver a coward.

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5. Start the sentences.

_____________________________________ laughed at me and called me a coward. _____________________________________ were very many flies in the country in summer. ______________________________________ terrible insects, each of them as big as our sparrow”, gave no rest. ________________________________ on my food or on my face, and I always jumped up.

6 Correct the sentences.

Sudenly about twenty wasps came flying into my room.
I was very many afraid of their terrible stings.
The queen liked me so much, that she never had dinner withaut me.
They were an inch and a half long, and as shark as needles.

7. Say true or false.

Some of them seized my cake and carried pieces of it away.
Others flew around my head and face and made a great noise.
I jumped up, pulled out my sword and attacked them in the air.
These insects were as large as crows. I took out their stings.