Question

The Story of the Old Man and the Sea



There was an old man who lived on a beach in a shack that he’d built with his own hands. […]



The people in the village thought that the old man was crazy and warned their children to never go near his shack. But of course they did. When the old man awoke from his afternoon nap and opened up the shutters of his window he frequently found 8 or 9 children sat patiently on the sand outside, gone silent at the appearance of his red nose and white beard.



“Go on, be off with you!” he’d growl but the children would just gulp and sit right where they were. “Hmm, I suppose there’s no getting rid of you until you’ve had a story?” the children would nod eagerly and the old man would light his pipe and say, “Well, now, yesterday we had the tale of the Dream Gypsies, and the day before that what was it? Oh yes, the Bad Breath Pirates. But did I ever tell you the story of the Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon?”



And of course he never had and that was the amazing thing – the old man had never been heard to tell the same story twice. He came up with a new tale each time and so they always came back, running down the path from the cliff as soon as school was out.



The adults in the village had once been children, too, but they’d long forgotten the days of listening to stories on the sand. There was clearly something wrong with someone who had no friends or even a job and they preferred to ignore the old man altogether until one day, a surprise event made that quite impossible. […]



TOM THUMB. The Story of the Old Man and the Sea. Available at: . Accessed on: 1 Aug. 2016.



GLOSSÁRIO

shack: casebre

warned: alertaram

nap: soneca

shutters: persianas

sand: areia

get rid: se livrar

growl: rosnar

gulp: engolir

cliff: penhasco

Read the text and choose the correct option about it.

A
The kids could not see the old man.


B
The kids could not listen to the stories.


C
The kids could not wait for the old man.


D
The kids could not stop visiting the old man.

Answer 1

R: Letra D.

Explicação: As crianças da vila sempre visitavam o velho senhor em todas as oportunidades que tinham, como evidenciado no trecho "He came up with a new tale each time and so they always came back, running down the path from the cliff as soon as school was out", demonstrando como assim que as crianças saíam da escola, já corriam para ouvir os contos do homem.