WHY IS THEIR MOTHER OFTEN AWAY FROM HOME

6. Why is their mother often away from home?

Read this passage and decide whether these statements are True or False.

The country is more beautiful than a town and more pleasant to live in. Many people

think so, and go to the country for the summer holidays though they cannot live there all

the year round. Some have a cottage built in a village so that they can go there whenever

they can find the time.

The village green is a wide stretch of grass, and houses or cottages are built round it.

Country life is now comfortable and many villages have water brought through pipes into

each house. Most villages are so close to some small towns that people can go there to

buy what they can't find in the village shops.