3- Read the following passage, then answer the questions:
Once upon a time, there was a boy who became bo r ed when he watched over his
village sheep grazing on the hillside. To entertain himself, he shouted, “Wolf! Wolf! The
wolf is chasing the sheep!” When the villagers heard the cry, they came running up the
hill to drive the wolf away. But, when they arrived, they saw no wolf. The boy was
amused when he saw their angry faces. “Don’t scream wolf, boy,” warned the villagers,
“when there is no wolf!” They angrily went back down the hill. Later, the little sheep
herder cried out once again, “Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is chasing the sheep!” To his
amusement, he looked on as the villagers came running up the hill to scare the wolf
away.
As they saw there was no wolf, they said strictly, “Save your frightened cry fo r when
there is a real wolf! Don’t cry “wolf” when there is no wolf!” But the boy grinned at their
wo r ds while they walked grumbling down the hill once mo r e. After a while, the boy saw
a real wolf sneaking around his flock. Alarmed, he jumped on his feet a nd cried out as
loud as he could, “Wolf! Wolf!” But the villagers thought he was fooling them again, a nd
so they didn’t come to help. At sunset, the villagers went looking fo r the boy who hadn’t
returned with their sheep. When they went up the hill, they found him weeping. “There
really was a wolf here! The flock is gone! I cried out, “Wolf!” but you didn’t come,” he
wailed.
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