Reading Practice No1

__________________________Short stories Reading No. 1
Blindness
by Unknown
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She
hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend who was always there for
her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I will marry
you.'
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages
came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her, ‘Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?'
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind.
The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that,
and the thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to
marry him.
Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote a note to her that said:
'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours,
they were mine.'
A. Find the word or phrase in the story which means:
1. unable to see
2. gave (for free)
3. strips of cloth
4. thought about ___ before
5. cried and went away
6. look after
7. always beside
B. Decide if the statements below are true (T) or false (F).
1. The girl hated everyone in the world, including herself.
2. The boy gave her the eyes because he wanted her to marry him.
3. Her boyfriend was blind by nature.
4. She refused to marry him because he was blind.
C. Answer the questions below.

1. Why did the girl hate everyone?
2. Why didn’t she hate her boyfriend?
3. Who donated the eyes?
4. Had she expected to see that her boyfriend was blind?
5. What led her to the thought not marry him?
6. If you were the girl, what would you do?
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