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Comprehension Passage

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Read the following conversation and then answer the questions

(Mambo and Lenchiro meet at break time. Lenchiro is taking a book back to the library.)

Mambo: Hello Lenchiro. Where are you going? It is still break time.

Lenchiro: Hello Mambo. I am taking this book back to the library. I just finished the last page. It is one of the best story books I have ever read.

Mambo: What was the book about?

Lenchiro: It was about a boy called Kodawa. He dropped out of school and joined bad boys in town.

Mambo: Oh my! Why did Kodawa do that?

Lenchiro: His new friends in town told him to do so. They also threatened to chase him from their group if he refused.

Mambo: That is sad. What happened in the end?

Lenchiro: The good thing is that Kodawa was taken back to their village, where he changed his ways and went back to school.

Mambo: Wow! Thank God he did.

  1. Question 1

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    Mambo and Lenchiro met

    A. in their classroom

    B. at break time

    C. in the school library

    D. in the evening

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  2. Question 2

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    Lenchiro said the book he finished reading was

    A. as interesting as the others he had read before

    B. more interesting than any other he had read before

    C. more boring than the ones he had read before

    D. equally boring like the rest he had read before

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    B. One of the best story books he had ever read

  3. Question 3

    1 mark

    Who was the main character in the book Lenchiro read?

    A. Kodawa's friend

    B. Kodawa

    C. Mambo

    D. Lenchiro himself

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  4. Question 4

    1 mark

    Finally, the good thing about Kodawa was that he

    A. joined some boys in town

    B. finished school

    C. started abusing drugs

    D. changed his ways and went back to school

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