what is the important paper referred to here
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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 present tense of ‘speak’?
Answer:
(a) ‘He’ in the above extract is Ausable, a secret agent.
(b) At present he is about to enter his room on the sixth floor of a French hotel.
(c) The word is ‘passably’.
(d) ‘Speak’ is its present tense.
Question 2.
“You are disillusioned”, Ausable told him. “But take cheer, my young friend. Presently you will see a paper, a quite important paper for which several men and women have risked their lives, come to me. Some day soon that paper may well affect the course of history. In that thought is drama, is there not?” [CBSE2015]
(a) Who is ‘my young friend’ in the above extract?
(b) What is the ‘important paper’ referred to here?
(c) Find a word from the passage that means the same as ‘disappointed’.
(d) What is the opposite ofjimportant’?