A. Identify the direct object and the indirect object of the following sentences.
1. The teacher handed out the report card to the students.
Direct : Report card, Indirect : The students
2. Would you mind passing me the sugar on the table?
Direct : sugar, indirect : tab
3. Uncle Yan left his nephews and nieces all his money.
Direct : his Money, indirect : Nephews and nieces
4. I was planning on presenting John the wooden spoon.
Direct : wooden spoon , Indirect : john
5. Can you buy me some candies on your way home?
Direct : Some Candies, indirect : your way home
6. Please fetch the newspaper for your father.
Direct : the newspaper, indirect : your father
7. My mum made a strawberry cake for me.
Direct : strawberry cake, indirect : me
B. Answer the questions based on the information provided in the reading text.
Use scanning to find the information.
Annie Oakley, an intriguing figure in American entertainment, was a markswoman who
starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, where she was often called “Little Sure Shot.” She
was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio, and her original name was Phoebe Ann Moses. As
a child, she hunted game with such success that, according to legend, by selling it in
Cincinnati, Ohio, she was able to pay off the mortgage on the family farm. When she was 15
she won a shooting match in Cincinnati with Frank E. Butler, a vaudeville marksman, and
they were married a year later. For the next ten years they toured the country and performed
in theaters and circuses as “Butler and Oakley.” In April 1885, Annie Oakley, now under her
husband’s management, joined “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show. Billed as “Miss
Annie Oakley, the Peerless Lady Wing Shot,” she was one of the show’s star attractions for
sixteen years.
Oakley never failed to delight her audiences, and her feats of marksmanship were truly
incredible. At 30 paces she could split a playing card held edge-on, and she hit dimes tossed
into the air. She shot cigarettes from her husband’s lips, and, when he threw a playing card
into the air, she would shoot it full of holes before it touched the ground. She was a great
success on the Wild West Show’s European trips.
In 1887, she was presented to Queen Victoria, and later in Berlin she performed her cigarette
trick with, at his insistence, Crown Prince Wilhelm (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) holding the
cigarette. A train wreck in 1901 left her partially paralyzed for a time, but she recovered and
returned to the stage to amaze audiences for many more years
(Taken from: http://toefl.uobabylon.edu.iq/papers/ibt_2015_1848492.pdf)
1. What was Annie Oakley’s nickname when she starred in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show?
Little Sure Shot
2. What was Annie Oakley’s real name? Phoebe Ann Moses
3. What is the name of Annie Oakley’s husband? Frank E. Butler
4. What did Oakley’s husband do? a vaudeville marksman
5. When did Oakley get married? 16 years old
6. Who performed the cigarette trick with Oakley in Europe? Crown Prince Wilhelm
7. How long did Oakley become the show’s star attractions in “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild
West Show? sixteen years
8. What made Oakley become partially paralyzed? A train wreck in 1901
