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Answer the following question. Complete the following sentences taking their appropriate parts from both the boxes below.

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Answer the following question.

Complete the following sentences taking their appropriate parts from both the boxes below.

(i) There was his assistant on the line …

(ii) You get fed up with people asking you to be brave, …

(iii) There he was, …

(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak, …

(v) It doesn’t do much good to know …

A

  • tapping at a little switch in his hand

  • and I told him

  • that there are people

  • as if you have a courage account

  • and they are saying something huge and urgent

.

B

  • trying to find the words on his computer.

  • I had come in a wheelchair from India.

  • on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque.

  • smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.

  • it is hard to tell what.

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(i) There was his assistant on the line and I told him I had come in a wheelchair from India.

(ii) You get fed up with people asking you to be brave as if you have a courage account on which you are too lazy to draw a cheque.

(iii) There he was, tapping at a little switch in his hand trying to find words on his computer.

(iv) You look at his eyes which can speak, and they are saying something huge and urgent − it is hard to tell what.

(v) It doesn’t do much good to know that there are people smiling with admiration to see you breathing still.

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