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Comprehension

I. Read the following poem carefully.

Home, Sweet Home
’Mid pleasures and palaces, though we may roam.

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there,

Which, seek through the world, is ne’er met with elsewhere.

Home, Home, sweet, sweet Home!

There’s no place like Home! There’s no place like home!
John Howard Payne

On the basis of your reading of the poem, answer the following questions.

1. Which place is the best, according to the poet?

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2. How is a small house better than palaces and pleasures?

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3. Why does the poet call his house ‘sweet sweet home’?

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Comprehension
4. What are the meanings of the terms ‘charm from the sky’?

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5. Which place in this world is better than home?

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6. Find words from the poem which mean the following.

(a) to walk around an area without any purpose

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(b) not proud that you are important

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