Question. One winter's day when the sun was shining you could hear the ....... of great activity.
(a) move
(b) sound
(c) moving
(d) sounding
Answer. B
Question. What you could hear was the ants who were ....... drying grain.
(a) active
(b) doing
(c) busy
(d) business
Answer. C
Question. Sensibly as all ants do, they had ....... the grain during the summer.
(a) assembled
(b) assumed
(c) brought
(d) collected
Answer. D
Question. Their plan wasto eat this ....... during the winter.
(a) provision
(b) providing
(c) provider
(d) provided
Answer. A
Question. They were so ....... in their work that they didn't notice a grasshopper.
(a) enveloped
(b) engrossed
(c) encompassed
(d) enlarged
Answer. B
Question. The grasshopper was so weak he was practically ....... because he hadn't eaten for ages.
(a) straining
(b) stalking
(c) starving
(d) streaming
Answer. C
Question. He saw the ants and ....... them with all the strength he could find to let him have a little food.
(a) begged
(b) bade
(c) bid
(d) bartered
Answer. A
Question. The ants shook their heads at him and asked him why he hadn't ....... up food in the summer.
(a) stood
(b) stored
(c) stoked
(d) stopped
Answer. B
Question. The poor grasshopper ....... he had spent the whole summer enjoying himself singing and dancing.
(a) confused
(b) confessed
(c) continued
(d) contented
Answer. B
Question. All the ants laughed and said in that case he would have to dance ....... to bed in the winter.
(a) famous
(b) familiar
(c) faded
(d) famished
Answer. D