Monday, November 1, 2010

reading comprehension

The unfashionable man







    Frank was a very boring man. He always wore the same brown shirt and gray trousers. He wore the same clothes for many years so he always looked the same. One day his colleague asked him why he always wore the same clothes day in and day out. He simply replied that he hated shopping for clothes and that had had not bought any new clothes since his mother died four years ago. The co-worker didn't know how to react.
        About ten years later his brown shirts and gray trousers were starting to look very shabby. He had not bought any new clothes for 14 years. Everyone agreed he needed to go shopping. But Frank hated shopping so he had a big problem. Another colleague suggested he should get married so his wife could buy all the clothes. Frank thought that was a wonderful idea but he had never had a girlfriend before so how could he get a wife.
    His boss suggested to get a mail order bride from Russia. Frank was so excited about this idea he spend a lot of money and flew to Russia and came back with a tall blonde smiling Russian wife. She could not speak English but that was OK because Frank didn't like talking much. When Frank got back to America he asked his new wife Natasha to go buy him some new clothes. Frank didn't know how much the clothes cost so he gave her $20,000. Natasha spent most of it for herself and spent a little for Frank's new clothes. She bought him a new jumper, 4 T-shirts, a pair of jeans and some shorts.
    Frank was very happy to have some new clothes to wear. But there was a small problem and that was that Natasha was color blind and she didn't know Frank's size. But Frank didn't care about fashion so the next day he went to work wearing a pink polka-dot shirt with a green tie. His pants were bright red and were four sizes too small so everyone could see the bulge of his testicles jammed painfully tight to the right side of his pants. Everyone was shocked with Frank's big fashion change. But Frank was so happy. But he did wonder why today's fashion was so painful.







Questions: 1: What did Frank always wear? _______________________ 2. Why did he wear the same clothes everyday? _
___________________________ 3.Why did he go to Russia? ______________________________
    4. What was Natasha's problem?_________________________________ 5. How did Frank like his new clothes? __________
    6. Why was Frank's fashion so painful? -___________________________ 7. Do you think Frank and Natasha make a good
    couple? _________ Why/why not? __________________________________________________________________

1 comment:

  1. The bright red pants was painful to Frank… When I was a twenty years old, I worked in a menswear shop. But I didn't see a man like a him.

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