1. This diary describes Mr. Walton’s life in a small village throughout the four seasons.

2. Spring weather is changeable. It is sunny in the morning but in the afternoon it suddenly becomes cloudy and it looks like rain.

3. Not many changes have taken place in recent years in this small village.

4. Mr. Walton prefers watching TV to reading books.

5. Though the village is no longer what it used to be, Mr. Walton seems still to stick to the old pattern of life.

6. Mr. Walton is an old-fashioned man who enjoys the simple pleasures in life.

1.The selection from the diary begins in the spring and ends .

A)a week before Christmas

B)when people prepare to sow seeds

C)during a very bad snow storm

D)the following spring

2.We learn from the first diary entry that .

A)Mr. Walton was going somewhere

B)the High Street was rather crowded

C)the weather was good after the rain

D)the temperature was going down

3.All of the following details from the diary support your choice in Question 2, except .

A)his heaviest and warmest coat

B)the wind

C)the car

D)the nine o’clock news from the radio

4.Mr. Walton says in his diary that elderly people enjoy .

A)talking around the fires

B)visiting friends

C)fires burning wood

D)life in the old days

5.According to Mr. Walton, a man is not much use on a farm .

A)if he knows nothing about machines

B)if he knows little about farming

C)if he doesn’t know how to keep animals

D)if he can’t sow seeds at the proper time in the spring

6.We can guess from the diary that Mr. Walton is a man who enjoys .

A)the simple pleasures in life

B)swimming in warm weather

C)life not disturbed by the outside world

D)reading good books