English - FL Choose From The Given Options. {Unit} [Second Exam] [2 Marks]

Prank: I believe there is a rule that form results should only be announced by the headmaster on the last day of term.
Taplow: Yes – but who else pays attention to it-except Mr Crocker-Harris?
Prank: I don’t, I admit – but that’s no criterion. So you’ve got to wait until tomorrow to know your fate, have you?
Taplow: Yes, sir.
Frank: Supposing the answer is favourable – what then?
Taplow: Oh – science, sir, of course.
Prank: (sadly) Yes. We get all the slackers.

Questions:
Q.1. When should results be declared ?
A. When the headmaster decides.
B. Soon after the exam.
C. On the last day of the term.
D. At the end of the month.

Q.2. Here the word ‘fate’ refers to ……………….
A. the result he is going to get.
B. good luck.
C. bad luck.
D. his miserable life.

Prank: Look, what time did Mr Crocker- Harris tell you to be here?
Taplow: Six-thirty, sir.
Frank: Well, he’s ten minutes late. Why don’t you cut? You could still play golf before lock-up.
Taplow: (really shocked) Oh, no. I couldn’t cut. Cut the Crock-Mr Crocker- Harris ? I shouldn’t think it’s ever been done in the whole time he’s been here. God knows what would happen if I did. He’d probably follow me home, or something.
Frank: I must admit I envy him the effect he seems to have on you boys in the form. You all seem scared to death of him. What does he do – beat you all, or something ?
Taplow: Good Lord, no. He’s not a sadist, like one or two of the others.

Questions:
Q.1. What do the words, “Why don’t you cut?” mean?
A. Protest B. Make an argument
C. Steal time D. Appreciate

Q.2. “……………. before lock-up” means …………..
A. ‘before he takes you under his control.’
B. ‘before you go in his custody.’
C. ‘before somebody coupels you to follow his orders.’
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’

Frank: I’m sure you’re exaggerating.
Taplow: No, sir. I’m not. In form the other day he made one of his classical jokes. Of course nobody laughed because nobody understood it, myself included. Still, I knew he’d meant it as funny, so I laughed. Out of ordinary common politeness, and feeling a bit sorry for him for having made a poor joke. Now I can’t remember what the joke was, but suppose I make it. Now you laugh, sir. (Frank laughs)
Taplow: (in a gentle, throaty voice) “Taplow-you laughed at my little joke, I noticed. I must confess that I am pleased at the advance – your Latin has made since you so readily have understood what the rest of the form did not. I Perhaps, now, you would be good enough to explain it to them, so that they too can share your pleasure.”

Questions:
Q.1. Nobody laughed at the joke made by Mr Crocker-Harris because …………………
A. it was not so funny.
B. everybody was scared of being punished if laughed.
C. nobody understood it.
D. they had heard that joke previously.

Q.2. Only Taplow laughed at the joke made by Mr Crocker-Harris …………….
A. for he wanted to please him.
B. out of ordinary common politeness.
C. for feeling sorry as he had made a poor joke.
D. Both ‘B’ and ‘C’

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Millie : (to Taplow) Waiting for my husband ?
Taplow : (moving down left of the table) Er-yes.
Millie : He’s at the Bursar’s and might be there quite a time. If I were you I’d go.
Taplow : (doubtfully) He said most particularly I was to come.
Millie : Well, why don’t you run away for a quarter of an hour and come back? (She unpacks some things from the basket.)
Taplow : Supposing he gets here before me ?
Millie : (smiling) I’ll take the blame. (She takes a prescription out of the basket.) I tell you what-you can do a job for him. Take this prescription to the chemist and get it made up.
Taplow : All right, Mrs Crocker-Harris. (He crosses towards the door up right.)

Questions:
Q.1. Whom was Taplow waiting for?
A. Millie
B. Mr Crocker-Harris
C. Mr Frank
D. His principal

Q.2. Millie is ……………….
A. a teacher in Taplow’s school.
B. Mr Crocker-Harris’s sister.
C. Mr Crocker-Harris’s wife.
D. the principal of that school.