The Diving Competition

This task is about reading to find information and make inferences from a text.
Read the story The Diving Competition by Bob McConnell (School Journal, Part 4, No 2, 1996) and answer the following questions.

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a)  The children's father went diving

    • whenever he had others to go with.

    • when the family had no food left.

    • whenever Uncle Hilton told him to.

    • whenever the tide was right.

    • every weekend.

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b)  Who put the crayfish into the sack?
     

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c)  What happened to the crayfish if they were not quickly put into the sack?

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d)  What do the words "empty handed" mean, as they are used in this story?

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e)  In what two ways did the children usually travel to the place when they were going to gather seafood?

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f)  Why would Harry's face be "redder than ever", when he came up from a dive?

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g)  What group of words does the writer use to show the children realised how their father and Tommy were tricking Harry?

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h)  What group of words does the storyteller use to let the reader know that Harry was surprised Tommy was still under the water?

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i)  What did the children think about Tommy's cheating?

    • They saw nothing wrong with it.

    • They thought it was all right because their father was part of the trick.

    • They thought it unfair.

    • The writer does not say.

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j)  Harry didn't speak at all on the way home because he

    • had not enjoyed the diving trip.

    • was exhausted by his long dive.

    • had lost the competition.

    • suspected that he had been cheated.

    • had not caught many crayfish.

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