Test: The Best Christmas Present In The World - 2

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones :

It was going for very little money. I thought I could restore it. It would be a risk a challenge, but I had to have it.

Q. The ‘it’ in the first sentence refers to

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It was going for very little money. I thought I could restore it. It would be a risk, a challenge, but I had to have it.

Q. The temptation to buy it was

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When we had got over the surprise, some of us shouted back. “Same to you, Fritz ! Same to you !” I thought that would be that. We all did. But then one of them was up there in his grey greatcoat and waving a white flag.

Q. ‘We’ in the first line refers to

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When we had got over the surprise, some of us shouted back. “Same to you, Fritz ! Same to you !” I thought that would be that. We all did. But then one of them was up there in his grey greatcoat and waving a white flag.

Q. ‘Same to you’ here means

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When we had got over the surprise, some of us shouted back. “Same to you, Fritz ! Same to you !” I thought that would be that. We all did. But then one of them was up there in his grey greatcoat and waving a white flag.

Q. ‘I thought that would be that’. It means that I thought that

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones :

When we had got over the surprise, some of us shouted back. “Same to you, Fritz ! Same to you !” I thought that would be that. We all did. But then one of them was up there in his grey greatcoat and waving a white flag.

Q. The phrase ‘got over’ means

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Our boys gave them a rousing chorus of While Shepherds Watched. We exchanged carols for a while and then we all fell silent. We had had our time of peace and goodwill, a time I will treasure as long as I live.

Q. The phrase ‘our boys’ refers to

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Our boys gave them a rousing chorus of While Shepherds Watched. We exchanged carols for a while and then we all fell silent. We had had our time of peace and goodwill, a time I will treasure as long as I live.

Q. Who prompted these boys to sing ?

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones :

Our boys gave them a rousing chorus of While Shepherds Watched. We exchanged carols for a while and then we all fell silent. We had had our time of peace and goodwill, a time I will treasure as long as I live.

Q. Carols are sung on

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As I was speaking her eyes never left my face. I opened the tin box and gave it to her. That was the moment her eyes lit up with recognition and her face became suffused with a sudden glow of happiness. I explained about the desk, about how I had found it, but I don’t think she was listening.

Q. The speaker of the above passage is

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As I was speaking her eyes never left my face. I opened the tin box and gave it to her. That was the moment her eyes lit up with recognition and her face became suffused with a sudden glow of happiness. I explained about the desk, about how I had found it, but I don’t think she was listening.

Q. The lady being talked to, is

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones :

As I was speaking her eyes never left my face. I opened the tin box and gave it to her. That was the moment her eyes lit up with recognition and her face became suffused with a sudden glow of happiness. I explained about the desk, about how I had found it, but I don’t think she was listening.

Q. The lady was not listening because