Going Places Extract Fully Solved

Ch-8 GOING PLACES by AR Barton 

Extract Fully Solved 

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

Extract -1

Or an actress. Now there's real money in that. Yes, and I could maybe have the boutique on the side. Actresses don't work full time, do they? Anyway, that or a fashion designer. You know-something a bit sophisticated". And she turned in through the open street door leaving Jansie standing in the rain. "If I ever come into money I'll buy a boutique". "Huh, if you ever come into money... ... if you ever come into money you'll buy us a blessed decent house to live in, thank you very much."

Sophie's father was scooping Shepherd's pie into his mouth as hard as he could go, his plump face still grimy and sweat-marked from the day.

She thinks money grows on trees, don't she Dad? Said little Derek, hanging on the back of his father's chair.Their mother sighed.

(a) Sophie wants to become an actress:

(i) to become famous

(ii) to earn money

(iii) to support her father

(iv) to compete with Jansie

(b) Jansie wanted Sophie to spend her money on:

(i) her marriage

(ii) her career

(iii) to open a boutique

(iv) buying a house

(c) Sophie is day-dreaming about…

(d) The phrase money grows on trees' indicates that Sophie……

(e) Sophie's mother's sigh is one of:

(i) regret (ii) delight

(iii) relief (iv) helplessness

(f) From the extract Jansie comes across as ……..a person.

(i) practical (ii) dominating

(iii) immature (iv) starstruck

Extract -2

They wouldn't make you manager straight off soaf. "I'll be like Mary Quant," Sophie said. "I'll be a natural. They will see it from the start, I'll have the most amazing shop this city's ever seen."

(a) Who is the speaker in the first line?

(i) Jansie (ii) Geoff

(iii) Sophie(iv) None of the above

(b) When does this conversation take place?

(c) What does this conversation tell us about Sophie?

(i) She is a good planner

(ii) She is confident about her goals

(iii) She is a day-dreamer

(iv) She is a practical girl

(d) Who will be like Mary Quant?

(e) A word from the extract which means 'wonderful' is…..

(f) Name the lesson from which this extract has been taken.

Extract -3

He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. He was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, voluntarily. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground.

the ground.

(a) Whom does 'he' stand for in the first line?

(b) What work is Geoff into?

(i) Workshop

(ii) Apprentice mechanic

(iii) Motorcycle shop

(iv) None of the above

(c) Where was Geoff's workplace?

(i) In the next lane from his house

(ii) 4 kms away

(iii) In the far side of the city

(iv) Near Sophie's school

(d) 'Voluntarily' means……

(e) Who is the author?

(f) Give an antonym of 'spread'.

Extract -4

And she was impatient. She was conscious of a vast world out there waiting for her and she knew instinctively that she would feel as at home there as in the city, which had always been her home. It expectantly awaited her arrival.

(a) Why was 'she' impatient?

(b) 'She would feel at home there. What does 'there' refer to?

(i) Jansie's place (ii) In her boutique

(iii) The romantic world (iv) Her school

(c) Find one word for 'an action that is done without thinking.

(i) Waiting (ii) Expectantly

(iii) Instinctively (iv) Impatient

(d) Who is 'she' in the given extract?

(e) An antonym of 'impatient' is

(f) Who is Geoff?

Extract -5

United won two-nil and Casey drove in the second goal, a blend of innocence and Irish genius, going round the two big defenders on the edge of the penalty area, with her father screaming for him to pass, and beating the hesitant goal keeper from a dozen yards. Sophie glowed with pride.

(a) How is Casey described in the extract above?

(b) To which country does Casey belong?

(I) United States of America

(ii) England (iii) Ireland

(iv) None of the above

(c) Why did Sophie glow with pride?

(i) Her father supported her

(ii) Casey beat the goal keeper

(iii) Geoff told the father about Casey's meeting with Sophie

(iv) None of the above

(d) A word similar in meaning to 'blend' is.

(e) Give an antonym of 'hesitant.

(f) Which day of the week was it?

Extract -6

There was a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm where lovers sometimes came. She sat down to wait. It was the perfect place, she had always thought so, for a meeting of this kind. For those who wished not to be observed. She knew he would approve.

(a) Where was the wooden bench?

(i) In the park (ii) In the arcade

(iii) Under a large tree

(iv) None of the above

(b) For whom did she sit to wait?

(i) Geoff (ii) Jansie (iii) Derek

(iv) Danny Casey

(c) Why was it a perfect place?

(d) What does 'elm' mean?

(e) 'He' in the last sentence is

(f) Give an antonym of 'approve'.

Extract -7

Here I sit, she said to herself, wishing Danny would come, wishing he would come and sensing the time passing. I feel the pangs of doubt stirring inside me. I watch for him but still there is no sign of him. I remember Geoff saying he would never come, and how none of them believed me when I told them.

(a) Who is 'l' referred to in the first line?

(i) Geoff (ii) Danny Casey

(iii) Sophie (iv) None of these

(b) What are the pangs of doubt she feels?

(i) Her father may be annoyed

(ii) Geoff will taunt him

(iii) Casey may not appear

(iv) None of the above

(c) What does she recall about her brother Geoff?

(d) There is no sign of……

(e) Where is 'l' sitting?

(f) Who is talking to whom?

Extract-1

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(a)(ii) to earn money

(b)(iv) buying a house

(c) becoming an actress or a fashion designer and owning a boutique, while believing that actresses don't work full time.

(d) has unrealistic ideas about money and doesn't understand the value of hard work. She thinks that it's very ease to earn money and she can become whatever she wants without much effort

(e)(iv) helplessness

(f)(i) practical

Extract -2

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(a) (i) Jansie

(b) This conversation takes place while coming home from school.

(c) (iii) She is a day-dreamer

(d) Sophie will be like Mary Quant.

(e) amazing

(f) This extract has been taken from the lesson 'Going Places'.

Extract -3

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(a) In the first line 'he' stands for Geoff.

(b) (ii) Apprentice mechanic

(c) (iii) In the far side of the city

(d) proceeding willingly or from one's own choice

(e) A.R. Barton is the author.

(f) An antonym of spread is compress or abridge

Extract -4

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(a) She was impatient to know Geoff's secret world.

(b) (iii) The romantic world

(c) (iii) Instinctively

(d) Sophie is 'she' in the given extract.

(e) patient or calm.

(f) Geoff is Sophie's elder brother.

Extract -5

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(a) Casey is described in the extract as a blend of innocence and genius.

(b)(iii) Ireland

(c)(ii) Casey beat the goal keeper

(d) mixture or combination

(e) An antonym of 'hesitant' is confident or certain.

(f) It was Saturday.

Extract -6

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(a) (iii) Under a large tree

(b) (iv) Danny Casey

(c) It was a perfect place because it had much privacy.

(d) Elm means a tall tree with broad leaves.

(e) Danny Casey

(f) An antonym of 'approve' is contradict or disagree.

Extract 7

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(a)(iii) Sophie

(b)(iii) Casey may not appear

(c) Geoff warned him Danny would never come.

(d) Danny

(e) 'l' is sitting on a wooden bench beneath a solitary elm.

(f) Sophie is talking to herself.