Read the following passages carefully and answer the questions that follow:—
I entered a railway carriage at a country
station the other morning and found myself in a compartment containing five
people. I took a vacant seat between a man in the
corridor corner and a lady dressed in handsome furs in the window corner. A
girl whom I took for the lady’s daughter sat opposite to her, aod a gentleman whom
I took to be the lady’s husband sat next to the girl, while another man
occupied the remaining corner by the corridor. These people had all evidently
been in the train sometime, and on entering was vaguely sensible of having
broken in upon a drama which was unfinished. The atmosphere seemed charged with
feelings whose expression had only been suspended, and I was not surprised
when, the train being in motion, hostilities were resumed.
(a) Answer the following questions —
(i) How many passengers did the speaker find
in the compartment?
(ii) Where did the speaker take his seat in
the railway compartment?
(iii) Whom did the speaker take for the
lady’s husband?
(iv) How did the speaker come to know that
there was a quarrel on in the compartment?
(v) When did the quarrel begin again?
(vi) Find out the words from the passage,
which mean the opposite of the following:
ugly,
wife, son, stopped.
(vii) Use the following in your own sentences—
take for, break in upon.
