Reading Comprehension

The angry fan

This happened in Australia, during a water-polo game that was one of the main sports events of the season. There was nothing ex­citing at the beginning of the game; but suddenly one of the players jumped out of the water and ran to the referee. He said that one of the forwards of the other team had bitten him in the leg while he was swimming under the water.

At first the referee thought that it was some kind of a joke, but when the player pointed to blood on his leg, he had to believe that it was serious. He called the forward and asked him why he had done such a strange thing; and though the forward insisted that he had not bitten anybody, the referee made him leave the game.

They began again, but a few minutes later, two players, one from each team, climbed out of the water, shouting that somebody had bitten them. There was blood on both players’ legs. The game was stopped, and they began to let the water out of the pool. When almost all the water was let out, everybody saw a young crocodile at the bottom of the pool. Somebody had put the crocodile into the pool, but why? The real truth became known when the players returned to their dressing room after the unusual game and found a curious letter there.

“I have been a passionate water-polo fan for many years”, the weird author of the letter wrote, “and I am not satisfied with the way the players seem to act. They have allowed the game to become slow and uninteresting, and I have decided that I must do something to make them move faster. I don’t think I can do this well myself, and I have decided that my crocodile will do it better”.

READING COMPREHENSION TEST

І. T(true), F(false), NS (not stated)?

a) Water-polo is very popular in Australia.

b) The players were very excited at the beginning of the game.

c) One of the players was bitten in the shoulder.

d) The player claimed to have been bitten by the rival.

e) It was a joke.

f) There was a crocodile at the bottom.

g) The players from both teams became the victims of the reptile.

h) Two forwards and one defender suffered from the crocodile.

i)The crocodile was put in the pool in order to kill the best player of the opposite team.

j) The angry fan was imprisoned after his cruel joke.

ІІ. Choose the correct answer.

1.How many water-polo players were bitten by the crocodile?

a) one b) two c) three

2.How was the crocodile found?

a)the water was let out of the pool

b)the players put the net into the pool

c)the water was let into the pool

 3.Who put the crocodile into the swimming pool?

a)the referee b)the player c)the water polo fan

4.What did he do it for?

a)to play a joke b)to make them move faster c) to frighten them

5.When did they know the truth?

a)in the afternoon b)when they returned to their dressing room

c)when they returned to the living room

6.Who could make them move faster?

a)a coach b)a shark c)a crocodile

 III. Make three degrees of comparison to each adjective

IV. Write out all irregular verbs from the text in four forms