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ENGLISH WORKSHEET (TREASURE READER)
L: 14 My Computer Ate My Homework (Poem)
I. Word Power
S.no Word Part of Speech Meaning Synonym Antonym
1. troublesome adjective giving trouble bothersome trouble fee
2. unsettled adjective mentally anxious
unbalanced
3. consume verb to eat or drink feed on renew
in great
quantity
4. devour verb to eat up gobble replace
greedily

5. trash noun something in a junk acclaim

broken
condition or
mass

II.Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:

i)My computer ate my homework.

Yes, it's troublesome, but true.
Though it didn't gnaw or nibble
and it didn't chomp or chew.
It digested it completely.
It consumed my homework whole,
when I pressed the Shift and Enter keys
instead of Shift-Control.

a) What type of a situation does the poem describes?

Ans. The poem describes a funny situation.
b) Who ate the poet’s homework?
Ans. The computer ate the poet’s homework.
c) What keys had the poet pressed? Which keys should he have pressed to avoid losing his work?
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Ans. The poet pressed the Shift and Enter keys. He could have pressed Shift- Control to avoid losing his
work.

ii) It devoured my hours of typing,

every picture, chart and graph,
and it left me most unsettled
when I thought I heard it laugh.

I would guess it was a virus,

or it could have been a worm,
that deleted every bit
but didn't prompt me to confirm.

a) Whom does ‘it’ refers to?

Ans. ‘It’ refers to the computer.

b) What did the computer devour?

Ans. The computer devoured the poet’s homework which consisted of pictures, charts and graphs.

c) What was the poet expecting from the computer’s side?

Ans. The poet was expecting a reminder or a prompt from the computer’s side before deleting his
homework.

iii) I suppose I might have pressed Escape

instead of pressing Save,
but, regardless, my computer
now will never misbehave.

For I found a good solution

and I smiled to hear the crash,
when I chucked it out the window
and it landed in the trash.

a) Was the computer being naughty or had the narrator made a mistake? Which are the lines that justify
your answer?
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Ans.The narrator had made a mistake by pressing wrong keys the following lines indicate us that:
I suppose I might have pressed Escape
instead of pressing Save,
b) How did the poet ensure that his computer never misbehaved?

Ans. The poet ensured that his computer never misbehaved by saving his work every time.
c) What solution did the poet finally come up with?
Ans. The poet finally came up with a solution of throwing his computer out of the window
somewhere in the trash.