Comprehension box 3 'Saffron'

The Trojan horse Saffron #1
1. Answer: (c) Greece
2. Answer: (a) secure
3. Answer: (a) encourage
4. Answer: (a) heartbroken
5. Answer: (a) The Trojans celebrated
6. Answer: (c) Many people killed trying to climb the stone walls.
7. Answer: (c) The Greeks sent a thousand ships to troy.
8. Answer: (a) Gift-giving
9. Answer: (a) Though they had won the war.
10. Answer: (a) burnt
11. Answer: (a) Greeks
12. Answer: (c) Things are not always as they appear



Slipping, Sliding and spinning Saffron #2
1. Answer: (a) bowling balls, slides, and smooth surfaces
2. Answer: (c) go fast
3. Answer: (c) The eraser slid down the wooden board
4. Answer: (b) shiny
5. Answer: (b) there was more friction
6. Answer: (c) had less friction
7. Answer: (a) procedure
8. Answer: (a) have a better grip on the grass
9. Answer: (c) snowy
10. Answer: (b) car Tyres
11. Answer: (a) friction
12. Answer: (c) Friction is an invisible force



The mirror of Matsuyama Saffron #3
1. Answer: (a) her dutifulness
2. Answer: (b) one month
3. Answer: (a) give a warning about being vain
4. Answer: (a) a businessman
5. Answer: (c) teach people how to look after mirrors properly
6. Answer: (a) mirror
7. Answer: (a) she thought she saw her mother's face each time she looked into it
8. Answer:  (c) distrust and affection
9. Answer: (b Paragraph 9
10. Answer: (c) complained to her husband
11. Answer: (b) only sought to remember her dead mother
12. Answer: (a) lilies



The urban rodent and the rural rodent Saffron #4
1. Answer: (b) urban mouse.
2. Answer: (b) simple
3. Answer: (c) compares the food in the rural mouse and urban muse regions
4. Answer: (a) nourishment and sustenance
5. Answer: (a) welcomed his cousin to the country
6. Answer: (a) they were cousins
7. Answer: (a) the delicious food
8. Answer: (b) rich and plentiful
9. Answer:  (a) noisy household
10. Answer: (b) He immediately set out for his home in the rural region
11. Answer: (c) living peace
12.  Answer: (c) became used to urban living and visited occasionally



Prisoners in hiding Saffron #5
1. Answer: (a) two years
2. Answer: (b) wanted to escape capture from nazis
3. Answer: (b) runaways
4. Answer: (a) 13
5. Answer: (c) Anne was a very talented writer
6. Answer: (a) Paragraph 3
7. Answer: (a) suddenly
8. Answer: (c) They tiptoed around their hiding place
9. Answer: (c) suspected someone was hiding in their workplace
10. Answer: (c) had a room each in which to sleep
11. Answer: (b) Anne's parents
12.  Answer: (a) fantasy



Pandora's bo Saffron #6

1. Answer: (c) evil appeared on earth
2. Answer: (b) gentle
3. Answer: (b) Pandora's growing curiosity about the box
4. Answer: (c) felt horrified
5. Answer: (c) trustworthiness
6. Answer: (c) it gave people a sense of optimism
7. Answer: (a) pandora was extremely attractive
8. Answer: (b) narrative
9. Answer: (a) wickedness
10. Answer: (c) hope
11. Answer: (b) Zeus intended she would open the box
12. Answer: (b) to burn enemies' houses



5 January 2072 Saffron #7
1. Answer: (c) nourish
2. Answer: (a) Paragraph 3
3. Answer: (a) A frictional planet far away
4. Answer: (a) a lack of water
5. Answer: (a) an ocean of sea
6. Answer: (b) war in the middle east
7. Answer: (b) nuclear bombs
8. Answer: (a) cook dinner
9. Answer: (c) reflected on the past
10. Answer: (a) a fact
11. Answer: (b) Look after your planet before it's too late
12. Answer: (a) were all killed



Atlantis: Legend or lost city? Saffron #8
1. Answer: (a) Atlantis legends
2. Answer: (b) the island
3. Answer: (c) educated and technologically advanced
4. Answer: (c) praised Atlantis
5. Answer: (a) circular shape
6. Answer: (b) a human
7. Answer: (a) old encyclopedias
8. Answer: (b) Paragraph 3
9. Answer: (b) was educated
10. Answer: (b) By a powerful tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake
11. Answer: (a) a historical fact
12. Answer: (a) tell a fictitious story



Saffron #9