Mr. Scott thought that he was very good at fixing household appliances when they broke, so when Mrs. Scott told him that she needed a new vacuum cleaner, he said, "What's wrong with the old one? I can easily fix it."

Mr. Scott fixed the vacuum cleaner, but the same thing happened again several times, until one day, after he had unscrewed all the parts, and had gone to have lunch, Mrs. Scott added a few extra pieces to the pile on the floor.

"Do you know," she said to her friend, Mrs. Brown, the next morning, "if I'd just taken away a few pieces, he'd have noticed that they were missing, and would have gone out and bought some more. But when he couldn't find places for all the pieces that were on the floor, he gave up and agreed to buy me a new machine."

A       Answer these questions:

1. What did Mr. Scott say when his wife asked for a new vacuum cleaner?
2. What did he do then?
3. How many times did this happen?
4. What did Mrs. Scott do one day when her husband went to have lunch?
5. What would Mr. Scott have done if some of the pieces of the vacuum cleaner were missing?
6. Why did Mr. Scott agree to buy a new machine?

B     Write these sentences, putting a form of come, fall, get or go in each blank space.

1. One day the electricity _____very low, and Mrs. Scott's vacuum cleaner would not work properly.
2. Mr. Scott ____________ angry when his wife asks him for a new vacuum cleaner.
3. When Mr. Scott is angry, he _______ for a long walk and _________ home much calmer.
4. Mrs. Scott is in bed now. For a long time she couldn't ________ comfortable.
5. Now she has ________ asleep.
6. Mrs. Scott's dreams have _________ true: her husband has agreed to buy her a new vacuum cleaner!
7. Mrs. Scott is __________ ready to go to the stores now.
8. Last week she _________ shopping for some new furniture.

C       Draw lines from the words on the left to the correct words on the right. Then write out the five complete sentences.

1. Mrs. Brown                            a. didn't want to buy a new vacuum cleaner for his wife.

2. Mr. Scott                               b. had been added by Mrs. Scott.

3. Mrs. Scott                             c. needed fixing on more than one occasion.

4. The extra pieces                   d. was a friend of Mrs. Scott's.

5. The vacuum cleaner              e. was smart enough to get a new vacuum cleaner