اسئله كاملة لقصة( The Spiders (1-4

(1)The Spiders
Questions and answers:

1-Where were a team of archaeologists asleep ?
They were asleep in tents in a remote part of the Western Desert.

2- Where did the cars stop ?
They stopped two hundred metres from the archaeologists’ tents.

3-Where did the four men go ?
They climbed down into an underground passage.

4-What did they do to see around them ?
They switched on their torches.

5-What were on the walls of the passage ?
There were paintings of ancient Egyptian gods and writing.

6-Who found two underground rooms ?
A team of six archaeologists found them.

7-What was in the first room ?
There were five ancient Egyptian mummies in the first room.

8-What was sent to the museum in Cairo ?
Gold and other treasures were sent there.

9-What were the four men searching for ?
They were searching for other rooms containing gold.

10-What would the machine that the small man carried show them ?
It would show them rooms behind the walls.

11-How did the machine show them what was behind the wall ?
It sends radio waves through the wall. When the waves hit something on the
other side, they come back to it. The computer changes the radio waves into a
picture.

12-What was the machine called ?
It was called Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).

13-How did the big man break through the wall ?
He used a pickaxe and a heavy hammer.

14-What hung from the ceiling of the passage ?
Very great spiders’ webs hung from the ceiling of the passage.

15-What was at the end of the passage ?
Two gold doors were at the end of the passage.

16-What covered the oldest man’s face ?
A huge spider’s web covered the oldest man’s face.

17-What did the room which they broke into contain ?
It contained gold and other treasures.

18-Why did the big man shout in pain ?
He shouted in pain because spiders were biting him.

19-How did the tall man try to keep the spiders away ?
He took off his jacket and hit the spiders with it.

20-Where was the small man bitten ?
He was bitten on his leg.

21-Where did the men take the gold and treasures they stole ?
They took them to their cars.

22- What happened to the four men by that time ?
They had all been bitten by the spiders.

23- Why didn’t the oldest man worry about the biting of the spiders ?
He believed there weren’t any deadly spiders in Egypt.

24- How did the four men feel as they drove through the desert ?
They felt very sick and thirsty.

25- Where did the big man see four spiders ?
He saw them in the boxes in the back of the car.

26- What did the tall man do ?
He crawled out and fell onto the sand beside the car.

27- Who were in the helicopter ?
A pilot, a telecom engineer and a technician were in the helicopter.

28- Where were they going ?
They were going to a transmitter in the desert.

29- What did the pilot do when he saw the vehicles below them ?
He flew the helicopter round in a circle.

30- How did the pilot and his mates find the four men ?
They found the four men dead.

31- What did the pilot think the four men died of ?
He thought they died of thirst.

32- How was the pilot saved from the bites of the spiders?
He was asked by the engineer to get on the radio to contact the police.
So he left the car where the spiders had been.

33- Why did the small spiders in the cars die ?
They died because it was too hot for them to live.

34- Where did the police drive the robbers’ cars ?
They drove them to a new town called Hamdayya, south west of Cairo.

35- What happened to the biggest spider in the back of the car ?
It was still alive.


The Spiders (2)
Questions and answers:

1- What did the police discover in the Land Cruisers ?
They discovered treasures and gold.

2- Why did the officer go to his superior ?
He went to him to report about the gold.

3- What did the spider do as the officer was going to his superior ?
It ran across some open ground and then disappeared.

4- Why was the officer near death ?
He was near death because the spider was near him.

5- What kind of place does a spider look for ?
It looks for a place that is dark and safe.

6- Whom did the house next to the police station belong to ?
It belonged to the Hassan family.

7- Who was Ayman ?
He was the eldest son of the Hassan family.

8- Why was he glad to have his own room ?
He was glad to have his own room to practise his hobby.

9- What was Ayman’s favourite hobby ?
His favourite hobby was the internet.

10-Why was the internet useful to Ayman ?
He used it for his university studies and for making conversations with
friends in other countries.

11-How did the conversations look like on a computer screen ?
They looked like dialogues in a book.

12- What would be a big problem for Ayman ?
His big problem would be to find a good job after his university studies.

13- How was Najat in danger of being attacked by the spider ?
The spider moved to attack her but she moved her foot away.

14-Where did the spider go after Najat had moved away ?
It climbed out of the window and down to the garden.

15-Why did the spider stop ?
It stopped because it came to a corner of a walled garden.

16-Why was Ayman surprised when he saw the spider ?
He was surprised at the spider’s speed and size.

17-What shows that Ayman was not afraid of the spider ?
He knelt very close to it and didn’t look frightened.

18-What colour was the spider ?
It was black with two yellow lines on its back.

19-What did Ayman see when the spider opened its mouth ?
He saw two long fangs.

20-Where did the spider go after Ayman had seen it ?
It ran up the wall and disappeared into the garden of the next house.

21-Why did Ayman phone the student of zoology ?
He phoned him to look up the spider in his books.

22-What did Ayman find on the Word Wide Web ?
He found information about different species of spiders.

23-What was the old Egyptian text about ?
It was about a town in ancient Egypt where many people were killed by
black and yellow spiders.

24- Who translated that text into English ?
Dr Shereen Fakhry at the Department of Egyptology, Oxford University
translated that text.

25-Why did the people burn down the town ?
They burnt down the town to kill the deadly spiders.

26-Where did the spiders escape from the fire ?
They escaped into underground tombs.

27-Why did Ayman write an e-mail to Dr Shereen Fakhry?
He wrote an e-mail to her to find out if there was a picture of the spider with the text.

28-Where did the spider that Ayman saw hide ?
It hid in a safe place in the neighbouring house.

29-What did the spider do that night ?
It laid two thousand eggs that night.

30-What did the spider do with the eggs it laid ?
It enclosed them in four sacs of white silk.

The Spiders (3)
Questions and answers:

1-What did the archaeologist in Egypt send Dr Fakhry ?
He sent her a very old picture of a spider that was found in a tomb near Bawiti.

2-How did Dr Fakhry feel when she saw the picture of the spider on the screen ?
She felt a cold shiver down the back of her neck.

3-What did Dr Fakhry do with the message and the picture ?
She forwarded the message and the picture to Ayman.

4-What was the spider in the picture like ?
It was a big black spider with two thick yellow lines on its back.

5-In Ayman’s opinion, how did the spider come to his area ?
Ayman thought that the spider came with the boxes brought from the archaeological site to the police station.

6-What did Dr Shereen ask Ayman to do ?
She asked him to tell the police about the black and yellow spider he had seen.

7-Why didn’t Ayman want to tell the police about the spider he saw ?
He was afraid people would laugh at him.

8-What did the German Egyptologist tell Dr Fakhry ?
He told her about an ancient Egyptian medicine for the bite of the deadly black and yellow spider.

9-What was the medicine for the bite of the black and yellow spider made from?
It was made from the root of the “Echinacea Negra” plant.
10-Why did Dr Fakhry think that the black and yellow spider was real ?
She thought it was real because it was mentioned inamedical text.

11-Why did Dr Fakhry go to her friend the zoologist ?
She went to her to identify the black and yellow spider.

12-What was Professor Jones ?
He was the head of the zoology department at the university. He was also a famous arachnologist.

13-Why was Professor Jones interested in the spider that Ayman had seen ?
He was interested in it because it was unknown and very dangerous.

14-Why did the professor think the spider was female ?
He thought so because it was big.

15-Why is a female spider very dangerous ?
It is very dangerous because it lays about 2000 eggs
that develop in a very short time.

16-How could spider bites be treated ?
They could be treated by giving the person an injection of antivenom which works against the venom.

17- When would scientists have to develop a new antivenom ?
They would have to do so when there is an unknown species of spider.

18-Why might the danger of the spiders spread through Africa, Asia and Europe ?
This might happen because Egypt is the meeting point of the three continents.

19-Where did Professor Jones decide to go ?
He decided to go to Cairo.

20-Why did he decide to go there ?
He decided to go there to find the unknown species of spiders.

The Spiders (4)

1-What did Dr Shereen discuss with Professor Jones ?
She discussed the black and yellow spider with Professor Jones.

2-What was Professor Jones’ job ?
He was the head of the Zoology Department at Oxford University.

3-What was he famous as ?
He was famous as an arachnologist.

4-What was Professor Jones interested in after his talk with Dr Fakhry ?
He was interested in the picture of the yellow and black spider and in the spider that Ayman had seen.

5-Why was Professor Jones on his way to Egypt ?
He was on his way to Egypt because he thought that Ayman’s spider was anunknown species and he wanted to find it.

6-Why did Dr Fakhry ask Ayman to be careful if he saw the spider again ?
She asked him to be careful because Professor Malcolm Jones thought thespider might be very dangerous.

7-What did Ayman’s family think when they heard his story about the spider ?
They thought half of it was true and the other half was Ayman’s imagination.

8-What would stories about dangerous spiders cause ?
They would cause a lot of businesses to lose money.

9-Why was Ayman sorry for telling people about the spider he had seen ?
He was sorry because he hadn’t thought about the harm that would be caused if the news about the spidersspread

Why were the armed police officers going to the-10 archaeological site ?
They were going there to guard it as it was verydangerous

11-What happened to the archaeologists at the site ?
All of them died of spider bites

12-Why did Ayman’s uncle phone Colonel Mikhail ?
He phoned him to make sure of the news about the death of the archaeologistsby spider bites.

13-What did Ayman tell the Colonel on the phone ?
He told him every thing about the spiders and the spider he had seen.

14-Why should the officers wear protective clothing ?
They should wear protective clothing to keep the spiders out.

15-What did Colonel Mikhail ask Professor Jones to do ?
He asked him to find one of the spiders and identify it.

16-What did Professor Jones bring with him to Hamdayya?
He brought his equipment with him.

17-What did the Colonel ask Ayman to do ?
He asked him to tell them whether the spider that the Professor would find was the same as the spider he had seen.

18-Whom would the Professor and Ayman go with to the site ?
They would go to the site with some officers under the supervision of CaptainAhmed El-Sherif.

19-When won’t antivenoms work ?
They won’t work if the spiders are an unknown species.

20-Why did Ayman take the printout of Dr Shereen’s e-mail with him ?
He took it with him because he had no time to read it.