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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of these sentences is 3, 1, 2

"What was that?" he said. "Was that my honey? Are you eating it?"

"Why are you crying?" asked the lion. "Are you sad?"

"Your mother? When did she die?"

The right order of these sentences is 5, 4, 6

"Come here, you thief! I will punish you!"

"I'll catch you, you wicked monkey!" roared the lion.

"I will find you easily. You are the monkey with no tail!"

The right order of the lion's commands is 9, 8, 7

"Come down from the trees," he called out to the monkeys. "I will find the one who ate my honey!'

"Walk in front of me, one by one," the lion said.

"Open you mouth," he said. "Vomit up the food from your stomach."

B. Who is stupid? Who is cleverer? Who is the cleverest?

1. The monkey laughed again. "But you are the lion, the greatest, the cleverest, the strongest of all the animals," she said.
2. "Of course I know about riding on the smoke!" roared the lion. "Do you think, you stupid monkey, that you are cleverer than me?"