Reading Comprehension (A)

Q1. Read the passage and answer the questions:

Far below was the bottom of the pit. The dump. Barney could see bits of wreckage among the moss and elder bushes and nettles. Was that a steering wheel of a ship? The tail of an aeroplane? At least there was a real bicycle. Barney felt sure he could make it go if only he could get at it. They didn't let him have a bicycle. Barney wished he was at the bottom of the pit and the ground gave way.

Barney felt his head going down and his feet going up. There was a rattle of falling earth behind him. Then he was falling, still clutching the clump of grass that was falling with him. "This is what it's like when the ground gives way," thought Barney. Then he seemed to turn a complete somersault in the air, bumped into the ledge of the chalk halfway down, crashed through some creepers and ivy and branches, and landed on a bank of moss.

His thoughts did those funny things they do when you bump your head and you suddenly find yourself thinking about what you had for dinner last Tuesday. All mixed up with seven times six.

He was lying in a kind of shelter. Looking up he could see a roof, or part of a roof, made of elder branches, and a very old rotten carpet, and rusty old sheets of iron. There was a big hole, through which he must have fallen. He could see the white walls of the cliff, the trees and the creepers at the top, and the sky with clouds passing over it.

Questions:

1. What did Barney see at the bottom of the pit?
2. Describe Barney's fall.
3. What thoughts went through Barney's mind after he landed?
4. What could Barney see when he looked up from where he landed?