Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below:
One afternoon in June, Franklin and his son
saw a thunder-cloud in the sky. He and his son at once went out with the
strange kite. They sent it up again and again into the air. The cloud passed and
no lightning struck the kite. Franklin began to think what was wrong.
All on a sudden he felt a shock and saw an
electric spark. At this time it began to rain. He held an electric jar near the
key and filled it with electricity. It was lucky that Franklin and his son were
not struck by lightning during the experiment. Many years later a Russian while
making the same experiment was killed.
Franklin proved that lightning is
electricity. But he did not stop with the discovery. He made new experiment and
the lightning conductor was the first useful result.
Questions:
(a) What did Franklin and his son see one
afternoon in the month of June?
(b) What did they do then?
(c) Why did Franklin think that he was wrong?
(d) What happened to the Russian doing the
same experiment?
(e) What did Franklin prove?
(f) What was the first useful result of
Franklin’s experiment?
(g) Pick out a word which means “not common
or usual.’
(h) Pick out a phrase which means ‘suddenly.’
