Question 6 (5 points) (from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)
Read the passage carefully and then answer the question.
He spent all that day roaming over the house. He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and
burnt it on the end of the big man's cigar, for he climbed up in the big man's lap to see how writing was done. At nightfall he ran into Teddy's
nursery to watch how kerosene-lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too; but he was a restless companion.
because he had to get up and attend to every noise all through the night and find out what made it. Teddy's mother and father came in the
last thing to look at their boy, and Rikki-tikki was awake on the pillow. "I don't like that," said Teddy's mother; "he may bite the child." "He'll do
no such thing" said the father. "Teddy's safer with that little beast than if he had a bloodhound to watch him. If a snake came into the nursery
now-"
But Teddy's mother wouldn't think of anything so awful.
Which sentence best describes the main idea of this passage? (5 points)
a
b
"This passage is an introduction to the importance of keeping pets away from bathtubs."
"This passage is about Rikki-tikki-tavi's first day and night at his new bungalow home."
"This passage is an explanation about the way a mongoose will react to a burning cigar."
"This passage is a description of the different noises that occurred in the bungalow at night."
с
Od