Question

gii 145a kumon gii 145
summarising a single paragraph 10
the war of the worlds

on side a and side b, read the passage and then complete the summary, using the key words highlighted where given.

1. -5; 2) see marking box; 3) -5; 4) see marking box

(1) i went on to the crowd. (2) there were really, i should think, two or three hundred people elbowing and jostling one another, the one or two ladies there being by no means the least active.
(3) hes fallen in the pit! cried someone.
(4) keep back! said several.
(5) the crowd swayed a little, and i elbowed my way through.
(6) everyone seemed greatly excited. (7) i heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.
(8) i say! said ogilvy; help keep these idiots back. we dont know whats in the confounded thing, you know!
(9) i saw a young man, a shop assistant in woking i believe he was, standing on the cylinder and trying to scramble out of the hole again. (10) the crowd had pushed him in.

(1)-(4) as i went on to the crowd, who were jostling one another, someone cried that a man had 1)____________________ the pit and several others said to keep back. (5)-(7) i elbowed my way through the excited crowd and heard a peculiar humming from the pit.
(8)-(10) ogilvy was asking for help to keep these idiots back, while ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Explanation:

The task requires completing the summary of the provided passage from The War of the Worlds using key details from the text.

1. For the first blank, sentence (3) states, "'He's fallen in the pit!' cried someone." Therefore, the summary is completed with "fallen into" to read "...someone cried that a man had fallen into the pit...".
2. For the second blank, sentences (9) and (10) describe a young man trying to scramble out of the hole after the crowd pushed him in. The summary is completed by condensing these details to describe what was happening while Ogilvy was asking for help.

Answer:

1. fallen into
2. a young man was trying to scramble out of the hole after the crowd had pushed him in.