Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading literrature 3', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | GED LITERATURE AND THE ARTS READING PRACTICE QUESTIONS Questions 1 through 5 refer to the following excerpt. What Has Happened to Gregor 1 As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard as it were armor-plated back and when 5 he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs which were 10 pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk waved helplessly before his eyes. What has happened to me he thought. It was no dream. His room a regular human bedroom only rather too small lay quiet between the four 15 familiar walls. Above the table on which a collection of cloth samples was unpacked and spread out Samsa was a commercial traveler hung the picture which he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and put into a pretty 20 gilt frame. It showed a lady with a fur cap on and a fur stole sitting upright and holding out to the spectator a huge fur muff into which the whole of her forearm had vanished . 25 He slid down again into his former position. This getting up early he thought makes one quite stupid. A man needs his sleep. Other commercials live like harem women. For instance when I come back to the hotel of a morning to 30 write up the orders I ve got these others are only sitting down to breakfast. Let me just try that with my chief I d be sacked on the spot. Anyhow that might be quite a good thing for me who can tell If I didn t have to hold my 35 hand because of my parents I d have given notice long ago I d have gone to the chief and told him exactly what I think of him. That would knock him endways from his desk It s a queer way of doing too this sitting on high at a 40 desk and talking down to employees especially when they have to come quite near because the chief is hard of hearing. Well .
