IV. Read the text and answer the following questions: Aunt Helen's House I'm going to tell you about my Aunt Helen's house. It's not her main house, that's in the city. No, this house is by the lake. There was a small town by the lake called Miller's Ford, but all the people moved away when the fishing and mining stopped about sixty years ago. But the houses stayed, of course. My Aunt Helen uses that house as a vacation home and she goes there for a few weeks every year to relax. 5 x 5p=25p But staying in that house isn't a relaxing experience. I think the house is haunted! I think there's a ghost there from many many years ago. Helen says I'm silly and that I've got an over- active imagination. But there are many things that happen in that house that cannot be easily explained. One day, shortly after getting up, I went to find my Aunt Helen to say "good morning" and I heard her talking in a room that she usually never uses. I think it used to be the nursery of the house when Miller's Ford was a busy town in the 19th Century. I listened at the door and could hear Helen reading something out, or perhaps she was dictating a letter. I couldn't hear any other person in the room with her so it wasn't a normal conversation. I didn't want to disturb my aunt, so overlooked the lake. It was a beautiful sunny morning. Half an hour later, I heard my aunt's car arriving. She had been to the local store to buy some bread and milk. I couldn't believe it! "What are you looking so shocked for?" she asked me. "I thought you were the old nursery, working on your letters, Auntie," I replied. "I never go in that room," she said. "I haven't been in that room for fifteen years." A few other things like that happened over the next few visits I made to that house and I grew to dislike it very much. I never went back to that house, despite my Aunt Helen's many invitations. 1. Where does aunt Helen live? 2. Why did the people leave Miller's Ford? 3. Why was the narrator looking for aunt Helen? 4. Why did the narrator think it wasn't a "normal conversation"? 5. What did aunt Helen say about the nursery?
