Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Sound of thunder comprehension questions

1.the penalty is 10,000$
2.they wanted to go live in 1492
3.they say the best way to kill a dinosaur is to put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain."
4.sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years before President Keith."
5.Its a path to prevent them to stepping on the ground so they don't change history. They must stay on the path so that they don't change history.
6.the men's clothes were sterilized so they don't carry bacteria into an ancient atmosphere.
7.So they don't carry on illnesses and bacteria into another time.
8.that they are going to die anyway so that's why they only kill animals that are going to die already.
9.Eckels, balanced on the narrow Path, aimed his rifle playfully.
10.he said "I've hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, elephant, but now, this is it," said Eckels. "I'm shaking like a kid."
11.they have a red mark on the dinosaurs that they can kill.
12.They clean up the T-Rex blood.
13.they make Eckles take the bullets out of the dinasaur.
14. He notices that he changed how words are spelt in the present.
15.He sees a glistening gold butterfly dead on his boot.

1.1.  Through most of the story I infered that it was the dinosaur moving. However at the end of the story I infered that it was the gunshot.  'He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. There was a sound of thunder.'

2.It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws close to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight.

1.ostrich egg:it shows how big his eyes are using sight imagery
2.pebbled skin:it shows the pattern of his skin using sight imagery
3.thick rope of muscles:shows how strong and buff he is using google sight imagery


3.A. Stay on the Path.Never go off!
B.Eckels flushed angrily. "Trying to scare me!Frankly, yes. We don't want anyone going who'll    panic at the first shot. Six Safari leaders were killed last year
C."We guarantee nothing
D.Anything happens to you, we're not responsible
E.Can these guns get a dinosaur cold?" Eckels felt his mouth saying. If you hit them right," said Travis on the helmet radio.

These foreshadow that something will go wrong.

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