C6 2nd UT Textual Comprehension Set 1

Reading Comprehension (Seen)

1. Read the text carefully and answer the questions that follow:

It was a little narrow shop, not very well lit. On the shop counter, there were several crystal balls. On the floor, there were magic mirrors: one to draw you out long and thin and one to make you short and fat. While we were laughing at all these, the shopman appeared.

“How can I help you?” said he.

“I want to buy my little boy a few simple tricks,” I said.

“Um!” said the shopman, and scratched his head for a moment, as if thinking. Then he drew from his hair a glass ball and said, “Something like this?” and held it out. The action was unexpected. I had seen the trick done at magic shows, but I had not expected it here.

“That’s good,” I said with a laugh.

“Isn’t it?” said the shopman.

Gip stretched out his hand to take this object and found merely a blank palm.

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A. Complete the chart with information from the text:

Who	Did what	Why
Gip and his father	laughed
	was surprised
		To take the glass ball.

B. Complete the following sentences:

1. Gip’s father wanted to ______.
2. On the shop counter, there ______.

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