Question

Complete the summary of the play,
choosing the appropriate words from the
list given below the passage.

A number of patients wait at the
(1) __________ of a dentist’s clinic.
Everybody is tensed at the thought of a
painful (2) __________ being extracted.
One of the women is bent on showing
everyone her (3) ___________. After
the arrival of the dentist, Joe, the first
(4) __________ is called in. Sometime
later, the nurse comes out and goes
in with a (5) __________. Everyone
is (6) __________ at this, imagining Joe
being subjected to a lot of hammering
in the process of his tooth being pulled
out. Once again the nurse comes out to
fetch a large pair of (7) __________ and
later on she takes in a (8) __________.
A little boy confesses that he pretended
to have (9) __________, because he
did not wish to go to school. The loud
(10) __________ and screeching from
within the room makes everyone leave
the (11) __________, one by one. Finally
there are only two women in the waiting
room, one of them being Joe’s wife.
She weeps (12) __________ about her
husband. But Joe comes out and explains
that he had shifted his (13) __________ to
the evening and had been given some pills
for the pain. After they leave, the dentist
comes out and locates the key of his tool
(14) __________. He had been trying to
open it using the hammer, the pliers and
the hacksaw only in vain. The woman with
the photographs is surprised to see that
the (15) __________ had moved quickly
and she was the next patient to go in.
The First PatientChapter 3 Page 99
TNSCERT Class X

Answer 1

1. Waiting Room
2. Tooth
3.photographs
4. Patient
5. Hammer
6. Frightened
7. Pliers
8. Hacksaw
9. Toothache
10. Sawing
11. Clinic
13. Appointment
14. Cabinet
15. Queue

Answer 2

Waiting room
2. Toothache

3.tooth
4. Appointment
5.hammer
6. Frightened
7.