GENERAL ENGLISH #31
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Directions
(1-10): Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question
out of the four alternatives.
As my train was not due to leave for another hour, I had
plenty of time to spare. After buying some magazines to read on the journey, I
made my way to the luggage office to collect the heavy suitcase I had left
there three days before. There were only a few people waiting, and I took out
my wallet to find the receipt for the case. The receipt did not seem to where I
had left it. I emptied the contents of the wallet, and the railway tickets,
money, scraps of paper, photographs tumbled out of it; but no matter how hard I
searched, the receipt was nowhere to be found.
I explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant.
The man looked at me suspiciously as if to say he had heard this type of story
many times and asked me to describe the case. I told him that it was an old,
brown looking object no different from the many suitcases I could see on the
shelves. The assistant then gave me form and told me to make a list of the
contents of the case. If they were correct, he said, I could take the case
away. I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed and wrote
them down.
After I had done this, I went to look among the shelves.
There were hundreds of cases there and for one dreadful moment, it occurred to
me that if someone had picked the receipt up, he could easily have claimed the
case already. Fortunately this had not happened, for after a time, I found the
case lying on its side high up in the corner. After examining the articles
inside, the assistant gave me the case. I took out my wallet to pay him. I
pulled out a ten shilling note and out slipped my ‘lost’ receipt with it! I
could not help blushing. The assistant nodded his head knowingly, as if t say
that he had often seen this happen too!
1. The
writer had plenty of time to spare because:
(a) he had arrived three days before
(b) he had arrived an hour earlier
(c) he had to collect his luggage
(d) he needed to buy magazines
Answer:
(b)
2. The
writer needed the receipt:
(a) to claim his suitcase
(b) to pay at the luggage office
(c) to prove that he had paid at the luggage office
(d) to prove that he had bought the suitcase
Answer:
(a)
3. The
writer felt foolish because:
(a) he could not find his receipt
(b) he hadn’t really lost his receipt at all
(c) he had to fill in a form
(d) the assistant eyed him suspiciously
Answer:
(b)
4. There
weren’t ............... people waiting at the luggage office.
(a) very much
(b) a great deal of
(c) lots of
(d) very many
Answer:
(d)
5. ‘wrote
them down’ means?
(a) copied them
(b) signed them
(c) made a note of them
(d) pointed at them
Answer:
(c)
6. The
writer found the receipt:
(a) on the high shelf near the cases
(b) among the contents of his suitcase
(c) nestled with the money in his wallet
(d) trapped between the photographs in his wallet
Answer:
(c)
7. The
writer took out his wallet the first time to:
(a) to buy some magazines
(b) look for the receipt
(c) fill out the form given by the assistant
(d) pay the assistant
Answer:
(b)
8. The
assistant asked the writer to make a list of the contents to:
(a) ascertain his ownership of the case
(b) test his memory
(c) charge him extra money
(d) embarrass the writer
Answer:
(a)
9. ‘I
explained the situation sorrowfully to the assistant’ means:
(a) the writer found the situation tragic
(b) he explained the situation to the assistant who was
very sorrowful
(c) with great distress the writer explained his
unfortunate situation to the assistant
(d) the assistant found the situation tragic
Answer:
(c)
10. In
this passage ‘situation’ means:
(a) place
(b) event
(c) condition
(d) position
Answer:
(d)
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