Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The baker and his family never starved. He, his family and his servants always looked happy and prosperous. Their plump physique was an open testimony to this.
1. What does the phrase: “The baker and his family never starved” mean?
2. What proves the baker’s prosperity?
3. Find out a word in the passage that is opposite to ‘thin or slender’.
1. It means that they were prosperous.
2. The plump physique of the baker proves that he is prosperous and has enough to eat.
3. Plump.
