Reading
Before you start reading, study the following vocabulary:
Lazy
Wildlife
Noise
Scream
Midnight
Terrified
Plate
Jump
From behind
Cry out
Joe's nightmare
It was Friday evening and I was quite lazy. I had dinner and then I sat down on the sofa in front of the TV. First I watched the news, then there was some scientific program about wildlife. I started to feel sleepy and I fell asleep very soon. Suddenly, terrible noises woke me up. I heard some screams. It was the TV, of course. It was a horror film. It was really terrible. There was some demon of the forest killing everybody very brutally. I didn't like it but I kept on watching it because I wanted to see the end. It finished just after midnight. I switched off the TV and went to bed.
At about 3 o'clock, I woke up. Again I heard some noises. This time it was not the TV. I heard a vase fall down and break or something like that. So, I quickly got up and went to the stairs. I looked down to the living room but I didn't see anything. Then suddenly I heard another glass object fall down and break. It was in the kitchen. I was terrified. I went slowly and quietly donwstairs…
On the right, I saw the broken vase. When I came to the kitchen, I found a broken plate. I was so scared! There are thieves in my house, I thought.
And then somebody jumped at me from behind. "Don't kill me," I cried out. There wasn't anybody. Then I saw it. It was a cat!
It probably got into the house through an open window and broke the vase and the plate.
I returned to my bed and said to myself: "I will never watch horror films again before going to bed."
Questions
Are the following statements correct?
1. Joe wanted to watch a scientific program about wildlife.
2. He thought that somebody broke into his house.
3. Joe wasn't scared at all.
4. Joe's bedroom is upstairs.
5. A criminal jumped at him from behind.
6. On Friday evening Joe was full of energy.
7. Joe doesn't want to watch horror films anymore.
8. It was Joe's cat which made all the noise.
9. Joe went to bed after 12 o'clock at night.
10. Joe kept on watching the horror film because he liked it.