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Read the passage carefully. Then choose the
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Leroy tried his best to reach for the milk
bottle resting on the topmost shelf. "Quick!"
barked his uncle. Wiping the beads of
perspiration off his brow, he stretched out
further, finally getting a rough grip on
something plastic. Bam! The bottle toppled
forward and landed with a crash over some tins
lined on the floor. Leroy shut his eyes tightly,
awaiting the lecture concerning bad manners and
lack of attitude. "Why can't you do anything
properly?" complained his uncle, storming
towards him. The customer followed his uncle and
got the bottle before his uncle could continue
his scolding. Leroy wiped his face and tucked in
his T-shirt. The shop was getting crowded.
People were blocking the aisles and the cashier
counter was packed with bodies pushing against
one another to pay first. Leroy's uncle left the
till open while he tabulated the total bill of
each individual mentally without any help from
the automated scanner or register. Leroy watched
his uncle and sighed. He wished he was up there,
behind the cash register instead of having to
clean the toilet.
School had been out for the past week and
Leroy already missed his friends and teachers.
At least in school, he would have been able to
concentrate on his studies and not be sent to
help his uncle out at his shop for a meager pay
of $3.50 an hour and scrub floors like
Cinderella. He sighed and sulked all the way to
the toilet.
The mirror had a dull outline of brown filth
decorating its edges and moss peeked out of the
drain. Suppressing the need to puke,
Leroy wore the rubber gloves his uncle had
considerately given him to tackle the task and
got to work. He tried flushing the grime off the
toilet bowl but to no avail. He had to use the
spiky brush and scrub. Leroy turned his head the
other way around and swirled the water a couple
of times before going full fledge to brush the
dirt away with gusto. Only five minutes had
passed since he had begun but he already felt
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According to the passage, Leroy was having a hard time getting the
bottle because ______. |
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he could not reach the shelf |
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his uncle was barking at him |
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the customer was staring at him |
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he was scared his uncle might scold him if he was not careful |
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The crowd was unruly because they were ______. |
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crowding the shop |
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jamming the aisles |
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pushing against one another to pay first |
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impatient to wait for Leroy's uncle to calculate the bill mentally |
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Leroy wanted to go back to school as ______. |
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he enjoyed learning new things |
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he missed his friends and teachers |
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he was not spending enough time on his schoolwork |
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he was excited to meet his friends and tell them about how he got to
spend the holidays |
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What does Leroy 'suppressing the need to
puke' ( paragraph 4 ) tell us about what he did ? |
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He allowed himself to vomit. |
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He controlled the urge to vomit. |
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He vomited but did not tell his uncle. |
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He sulked but controlled the urge to complain. |
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5. |
What did Leroy have to do in the end to
clean the toilet bowl ? |
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He had to use the spiky brush. |
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He got his uncle to help him out. |
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He used his gloved hands to scrub it. |
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He had to flush it more than two times. |
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