READ THE PASSAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.
Will was fed up. All he wanted was, to do things his way. Why did all the wolves
have to do everything together anyway? They ate together, played together, slept
together and stayed together. Everywhere. Every day. It was suffocating.
Will was growing up. He could do things himself now, and he had some pretty good
ideas, too! But his mom wouldn't let him try his ideas by himself. Will didn't get it.
One day, the pack was walking through the woods. Will had an idea that there
was food down a path, but the pack didn't want to go that way.
Finally, Will said, "Why do we need a pack anyway? I'm going to go down that
path and I'll have plenty to eat! I don't need any of you."
The pack did not approve. They said, "Will, you can try going off on your own,
but we need to work together in our pack. Packs help us survive."
Will didn't believe them. He ran off on his own. He ran for miles. He started to
get tired, and it was getting dark. Usually, the pack would all find a spot together
to sleep, but Will had no pack now. He decided to find a cave. When he settled
down to sleep, Will thought, "Sleeping would be much easier with my pack all
around me. If someone attacks, I'd have them to protect me."
He barely slept that night. In the morning, he decided to go back. Will hoped he
could find his pack again. He ran back to where they'd last been together. As he
was running, he smelled a deer. "Hmmmm..." Will's stomach was growling with
hunger. "The pack would be impressed with me if I brought a deer for us all," he
thought. So, he decided to hunt on his own.
Quietly, he crept through the woods and tracked the deer into a clearing. Will
looked around. Where was the deer? Suddenly, something charged out of the trees
at him! It was the deer, its antlers were sharp. If his pack were here, they would
help him, but Will was alone. He ran from the deer as fast as he could. After a
while, the deer stopped chasing him.
As Will stopped to take breath of relief he started thinking how much easier this
trip would have been with his pack by his side. He would have been able to sleep
soundly. He would have been safer with them all around him. He would have been
able to take down the deer with his pack by his side. Now, Will was just hungry
and lonely. He realised his pack had been right, each member of the pack does
help other members survive. Will knew that now, and was determined to find his
pack and work hard to help them as much as they helped him.
Which word or phrase in the passage means the same as ‘to make a firm decision'?
A Determined
B Approve
C Growling
D Fed up
