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On the basis of your reading of the story, answer these questions.

1. Who had a quarrel?

______________________________________________________________

2. What was the quarrel about?
______________________________________________________________
3. Who believed himself powerful?

______________________________________________________________

4. Who was walking on the highway?
______________________________________________________________

5. Find words from the passage which mean:

a. having great force _____________________________________

b. a type of clothes _____________________________________

c. an argument between people _____________________________

d. had the same opinion as somebody else ________________________

B. Read the given passage carefully.

A monkey and a crocodile were good friends. They loved each other’s company.
The monkey lived on a mango tree on the bank of a river. The crocodile used to
take the monkey on his back for a ride around the river.

One day, the crocodile’s wife became seriously ill and was almost dying. An evil
friend told her that her life could be saved if she was fed a monkey’s heart. Learning

this, the wife told her husband to bring his friend to her so that she could eat his
heart and get well.

The crocodile invited the monkey for dinner. The monkey happily accepted the
offer. He rode on the crocodile’s back, and they merrily went off for dinner.

But, on the way, the crocodile could not resist himself from telling the truth to the
monkey. He told the monkey that his wife wants to eat his heart. The monkey was scared
to learn about the danger to his life and was sad to see the deceit of a good friend. The

monkey, in order to save himself, thought of a plan. He said to the crocodile, “Oh! you
should have told me this before. Yesterday, I kept my heart somewhere on the mango
tree. I have forgotten to bring it.” The crocodile, along with the monkey, returned to the
mango tree to take the monkey’s heart. Reaching the mango tree, the clever monkey

climbed up the tree and broke off his friendship with the crocodile. He had understood

the difference between a good friend and an evil friend.

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