Ice-Cream Man

                                        Reading

                    His cart might be a flower bed,

                    Of roses and sweet peas,

                   The way the children cluster round

                    As thick as honeybees.

a) Why is the cart compared to a flower bed?

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b) Who cluster around the ice-cream cart?

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c) Who are the children compared to in the poem?

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d) Give the collective noun of: a ......... obees.

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