strange friends

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

strange friends

Usually, cats eat mice and
mice ______ cats.

1. run away from
2. get on with
3. Stay Away
4. turn away

Where did the cat and the mouse live?

1. In a cabin.
2. In a church under the altar.
3. In a hole in the ground
4. In a little house.

Why does everyone in the city call the cat and the mouse "strange friends"?

The mouse and the cat bought a _______ for the winter.

1. jar of jam
2. a pot of meat
3. pot of cheese
4. a pot of fat

What was the reason to buy a pot of fat?

1. Winter was coming and they should save food.
2. They have extra money to spare.
3. Because they love to eat.
4. none of the above

Where did they hide the pot of fat?

1. In the kitchen.
2. In the church, under the altar.
3. Under the house.

Who forgot about the pot of fat?

1. the cat
2. the mouse
3. both the cat and the mouse.

What was the cat's fantasy?

1. She fantasized of eating the mouse.
2. She fantasized about going to church and eating the fat.
3. She fantasized about going to church to pray.

The cat told the mouse that her cousin wants her to be the _______.

1. godmother
2. godfather
3. godbrother
4. grandmother

What was the name of the first "kitten"?

What were the other two names?

1. flashgun and undergone
2. Well-done and Be-gone
3. Half-Done and All-Gone

What is the way of the world?

1. Cats like mice, and mice like cats.
2. Cats eat mice and mice eat fat.
3. Cats eat mice, and cats get fat.
4. Cats eat mice, and mice eat fat.

What can you learn from the story?

Culture in Mind, page 72

Think of ways that people do to try to predict the future.

Don’t tell me you believe all this ________ about ghosts!

1. nonsense
2. influence
3. fortune telling

Television can have a positive _______ on young people.

1. future
2. fence
3. influence
4. prediction

Some people say you can _______ the future by reading tea leaves from your teacup.

1. predict
2. say
3. have
4. take

______________ and let me know how you’re getting on.

1. scrimp and save
2. Drop me a line
3. fill in a form

I'm sorry, honey, but your father and I can't afford to buy you a new bike right now—you'll have to work more hours and s_ _ _ _ _ and s_ _ _.

You really should _____ your car (up) or it'll get stolen.

1. lock
2. feed
3. mend
4. knock

You get thinner every time I see you, Sara - you're ________!

1. going away
2. giving the game away
3. passing away
4. wasting away

Gideon is very ______ - if he says he'll do something, he'll do it.

1. handy
2. predictable
3. reliable
4. unreliable

Life in the 19th _______was very different from what it is now.

1. century
2. millennium
3. decade

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