english

2/ victorian workhouses
In one place, the Newgate of the Workhouse, a company of boys and youths were locked up in a yard alone; their day-room being a kind of kennel where the casual poor used formerly to be littered down at night. Divers of them had been there some long time. "Are they never going away?" was the natural enquiry. "Most of them are crippled, in some form or other," said the wardsman, "and not fit for anything." They slunk about, like dispirited wolves or hyenas; and made a pounce at their food when it was served out, much as those animals do. The big-headed man shuffling his feet along the pavement, in the sunlight outside, was a more agreeable object every way.
Groves of babies in arms; groves of mothers and other sick women in bed; groves of lunatics; jungles of men in stone-paved down-stairs day-rooms, waiting for their dinners; longer and longer groves of old people, in up-stairs Infirmary wards, wearing out life, God knows how — this was the scenery through which the walk lay, for two hours. In some of these latter chambers there were pictures stuck against the wall, and a neat display of crockery and pewter on a kind of sideboard; now and then it was a treat to see a plant or two; in almost every ward there was a cat.
task3: using lines 1-17, decide the four true statements below. shade the boxes of the four statements which you think are true.
a. A group of boys were locked in a yard with their parents.
b. Lots of the boys in the workhouse are injured.
c. The boys were desperate for food.
d.There are no women in the workhouse.
e.The rooms in the workhouses have carpets
f. The writer walks around for less than an hour.
g.There are plants in the workhouse.
h. There are multiple cats in the workhouse