Question

Question 1 RTC: And then there was his accent. Though he spoke French and German passably, he had never altogether lost the American accent he had brought to Paris from Boston twenty years ago. (a) Who is ‘he’ in the above extract? (b) Where is he at present? (c) Find the word from the extract that means the opposite of ‘fluently’. (d) What is the past tense of ‘speak’?

Answer 1

Explanation:

ausable and b is hotel and c is passably

Answer 2

Answer:

a. Ausable

b. Paris

c. passably

d. spoke

Explanation:

• Ausable was overweight, to start with. really large. His accent was another factor. He could communicate in French and German, but he had never completely shed the American accent he had carried with him from Boston to Paris twenty years before.
• Ausable was born in the United States. Ausable wasn't a covert operative.
• He had American-like French pronunciation.
• Ausable had a strong American accent that he had brought with him from Boston twenty years earlier, despite the fact that he spoke passable French and German. He was American-born.
• Fowler had never read a description of a covert agent that Ausable fit. Fowler felt let down after following him along the musty hallway of the dark French hotel where Ausable had a room. On the sixth and top level, in a little room that was hardly the scene of a love adventure.

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