English

Reading in class

The Adventure

of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain

Read the passage. Then answer the questions.

At half-past nine that night, Tom and Sid were went to bed as usual. They said

their prayers, and Sid was soon asleep. Tom lay awake and waited in restless

impatience. When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he heard the

clock strike ten! This was despair. He would have tossed and fidgeted, as his

nerves demanded, but he was afraid he might wake Sid. So he lay still and stared

up into the dark. Everything was dismally still. By-and-by, out of the stillness

little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves. The ticking of

the clock began to bring itself into notice. Old beams began to crack

mysteriously. The stairs creaked faintly. Evidently spirits were abroad. A

measured, muffled snore issued from Aunt Poly’s chamber. And now the

tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate began. Next

the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed’s head made Tom

shudder- it meant that somebody’s days were numbered. Then the howl of a faroff dog rose on the night air and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter

distance. Tom was in an agony. At last he was satisfied that time has ceased and

eternity begun; he began to doze in spite of himself, the clock chimed eleven, but

he did not hear it, and then there came, mingling with his half formed dreams, a

most melancholy caterwauling. The raising of a neighbouring window disturbed

him. A cry of ‘Scat! You devil!’ and the crash of an empty bottle against the back

of his aunt’s wood-shed brought him wide awake and a single minute later he was

dressed and out of the window and creeping along the roof of the ‘ell’ on all

fours. He ‘meow’d’ with caution once or twice as he went; then jump to the roof of

the wood-shed and thence to the ground. Huckleberry Finn was there, with his

dead cat. The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an

hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard.

Key Vocabulary Words Explained:

1- Restless;

2- prayer:

3- Despair:

4- Fidgeted:

5- Eternity:

6- Graveyard:

7- Snore:

Classwork 26.04.2019

1.impediment

2. constant

3.mark

4.sickle

5.complextion

6.dim

7.fade

8.wander

9.breathe

10.so long

Use the following words in the given sentenses.

1.  She has a very dark complextion.

2. I like to make my room dim.

3. Beauty fades away by time.

4. She had lost her way home, that’s why she wandered 4 howers in the neighborhood.

5. When somewone dies he will not be able to breathe.

6. So long he is the director the school will floresh.

7. Memories fade away by time.

8. He has a brith mark on his face.

9. In math we can have many constants.

10. In Soviet Union sickle was a well-known sign.