2. What does the word "rooster" mean?Reading Comprehension Direction: After reading the following passage, there will be five questions. Please choose the best answer for each question from the four choices (A, B, C, and D).The Little Red Hen Once a hardworking little red hen lived on...
Sonic steeled himself, his anger strangely quiet now that he was behind her. It made him annoyed at himself, even more so than at her, to feel so neutral. He didn’t want to be soft toward her, he wanted to be angry and he wanted her to feel ashamed and he wanted an explanation....
This woman moved into my dad's home the minute her mother in law died. My dad is illiterate, so I'm quite sure he just shook his head yes and grunted when asked questions on this new will. Is there any way I can have this checked out? Does this woman have all the rights to my...
He grunted and pulled me toward the door of the solicitors’ office and then, in his eagerness to enter, released his grip. He pushed open the glass door, ringing a bell, and entered. I followed. He immediately sat down among the solicitors’ clients. They were all zombies, too. What...
‘Well, supposin’ it does?’ she inquired, coolly. ‘It’s a perfectly good neck, ain’t it?’ Louie, his face very red, took the plunge. ‘I don’t know. I guess so. But, Sophy, it — looks so — so — you know what I mean. I hate to see the way the fellows rubber...
The lady who was already back to her nails merely grunted. On the way up in the lift Ms Honey reminded Matilda, “Don’t go too close to the bed- stay a couple of metres away at the least. I know I may sound a bit too cautious but trust me, you never know what Ms Trunchbull...
He grunted in affirmation. “What does it matter?” “I’m just curious,” I said, rolling my eyes. “This isn’t an interrogation. I just want to know what it’s like there.” “Other than being full of greedy businessmen and generally smelling like shit?” He cocked a brow, look...
He grunted. “I spent the first month just sorting through things and clearing the place out.” Beneath the window frame, a large stain spread across the golden-flecked wallpaper. As if it weren’t ugly enough to begin with. That was the thing about my aunt Susan; she wasn’t a big...
I should think it goes back farther than that — at least to the dispute between Apollo and Pan, or perhaps to the first two people who grunted at one another. In any case, difficulty — the message intended only for initiates — is not a fault of Classical expression: it’s a ...
Mum, what's sex Mum, What’s Sex?Julia Sweeney considered herself an enlightened, sex-is-no-big-deal kind of parent. But that was before an innocent question about tadpoles prompted The Conversation One evening, on a school night, when my daughter Mulan was nine, we were eating dinner ...