B. However, the cricket could have enjoyed skating.
Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow.
A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground;
Not a flower could he see,
Not a leaf on a tree.
“Oh ! what will become,” says the cricket, “of me ?”
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold.
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
He wished only to borrow;
He’d repay it tomorrow;
If not, he must die of starvation and sorrow.
Study the following statements :
A. During winter, it was difficult to dance in the snow-covered ground.
B. However, the cricket could have enjoyed skating.
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Correct answer: (A) A is right and B is wrong.
Explanation
Note: the official key gives (1). The poem says the ground was snow-covered in winter (A), but it says nothing about the cricket being able to enjoy skating, so B is not supported by the poem.