Sec 1&2 Comprehension (Medicine Cat)

1. The writer's mother was very ill and had a weak heart, so having travelled for five hours was very tiring for her.
2. I think they had come from the hospital.
3. The home health-care nurse was to take care of the writer's mother.
4. Her heart was weak and unstable and she was expected to pass on soon.
5. Yes, I think she would face difficulty adapting as she did not like the pets around the house.
OR No, I think she would not face difficulty adapting as the writer had moved her pets' furniture out of her mother's room of recuperation so that they would not be in the room.
6. One of the cats, Otto, was not bothered by the changes and made himself comfortable on the electric hospital bed. The other three cats, on the other hand, were frightened by the electric hospital bed oxygen machine. They were also unhappy that the writer had moved their furniture. However, the dog was excited by the changes. She jumped up, barked and shed more profusely than usual.
7. Otto was unusual in several ways. Firstly, he was a calico and that was unusual as calicos are usually females. Secondly, it could perform various tricks that the other cats could not. Thirdly, it was the only cat that was not afraid of the electric hospital bed and oxygen machine and could stay with the writer's mother in the room.
8. Otto reached into the open tank and pushed on the float with its paw to hint that the float mechanism was the core problem.
9. It provided physical and emotional accompaniment to the writer's mother throughout her recuperation.
10. The writer was amazed by the cat and grateful to it for keeping her mother company.