Jill was four years old. She was a clever child, but she was not very pretty. She went to school every day, and she loved her lessons. She was always at the top of her class,
and she learnt to read and write very quickly. One day her mother said to her, ‘Aunt Kathy and Aunt Judy are going to visit us tomorrow. They live in Canada, and you haven’t met them, because they very seldom come to England. They’re going to have lunch with us.
The aunts arrived at twelve o’clock the next day, and Jill’s mother gave them some coffee. Then she said, ‘I’m going to make lunch now, and went into the kitchen. Jill stayed in the living-room with her aunts. Aunt Kathy looked at Jill and then said to Aunt Judy quietly, ‘She isn’t very p-r-e-t-t-y, is she?’
‘No,’ said Jill quickly, ‘but I’m very c-l-e-v-e-r.
A. Answer these questions.
- What did Jill’s mother say to her one day?
- When did the aunts arrive?
- What did Jill’s mother give them?
- What did Aunt Kathy say about Jill?
- And what did Jill answer?
B. Which of the words in the this story mean:
- beautiful
- fast
- come and see
- liked very much
- mother’s or father’s sister
