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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
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And as the light came on, Fowler had his first authentic thrill of the day. For halfway across the room, a small automatic pistol in his hand, stood a man. Ausable blinked a few times. |
- Who was standing in the room with a pistol in his hand?
- Ausable
- Fowler
- Max
- A waiter
- Ausable blinked because he:
- was getting adjusted to the light.
- got afraid of the man with a pistol.
- was thrilled to have reached his room.
- started thinking of how to get rid of the man.
- Fowler was thrilled because what he saw looked like a ______.
- Which word in the extract means the same as ‘genuine/real’?
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Solution
- (iii) Max
- (i) was getting adjusted to the light.
- looked like a real thriller scene; finally, the kind of action and scene involved a man with a small automatic pistol in his hand.
- Authentic
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