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B. Answer the following ques ons.

1. What was Dr Herriot doing when the car stopped in front of him?
2. Who was unwell and what was wrong?

3. How did Benny look when the doctor first saw him?

4. Why couldn’t the vet take out the ball with his fingers?

5. How did the vet know that Benny was alive?

6. Why do you think the doctor pressed Benny’s chest?

7. What was the vet’s greatest reward?

Vocabulary

A. Given below is a list of words from the lesson. Circle the words that describe
how everyone was worried about Benny.

breathless dead panic-stricken dimly urgently

lifelessly jammed fluttered wailing staggered

B. Fill in the blanks below with the words from the lesson you circled in the
exercise above.

1. I was ________________ from running up and down the stairs.
2. The ________________ crowd ran here and there.

3. ‘We have to take him to the hospital now!’ said Uncle Peter

________________.
4. The hungry baby was ________________ continuously.

Use of s and ’s

Read the following sentences.

There were only three vets at the animal hospital.

That was the vet’s greatest reward.

In the first sentence, s is used with the word vet to show that there was more than one vet.

In the second sentence, s is used with an apostrophe (’) to tell that the reward belonged to
the vet.

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