Question

(B) Read the following paragraph and answer the questions below it. [03]


“It’s all right, officer,” he said. I’m just waiting for a friend. Its an appointment made twenty years ago.

Sounds a little funny to you, doesn’t it? Well, I’ll explain if you’d like to make certain, its all straight.

About that long ago there used to be a restaurant where this store stands – ‘Big Joe Brady’s restaurant’.

“Until five years ago,” said the policeman. “It was torn down then.”

The man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar. The light showed a pale, square jawed face

with keen eyes and a little white scar near his right eyebrow. His scarfpin was a large diamond, oddly

set.


Questions:

1. What ‘sounds a little funny’ to the officer, according to the waiting man?

2. What had the store replaced?

3. What became clear, when the man in the doorway struck a match and lit his cigar?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Because he made an appointment before 20 years, which is quite strange to hear.

2. the store had replaced the big joe brady'restaurant.

3. It became clear that the officer was the friend of another man who was waiting for his friend.