part of the table, where h e ___ .
a) cool, had a friendly chat with the croupier
b) lost, followed the play in a nonchalant sort o f way
c) perfect, could not be seen by the Casino detective
d) superb, followed the play in a nonchalant sort o f way
4. O f course, the perpetrator o f the whole series o f Casino th efts__and I had t o ___ .
a) became at once obvious, go to the police
b) was still unknown, debate what I should do
c) became at once obvious, debate what I should do
d) was caught, give the evidence
5 . 1 obviously could not let it go on - and. even if I did, sooner or la te r__.
a) the secret would be revealed
b) we would stop being friends
c) he would lose the money
d) the Casino detective would probably catch him
6. Jater, I noticed, had by now vanished - doubtless ___ if a search o f everyone present were
ordered.
a) to hide the money
b) to avoid being caught with the money on him
c) to spend all the money
d) to return the money to the owner
IV. Choose the correct answer. 1. Why were all the people watching Mr. Randle so intently?
a) He was making a scene at the baccarat table.
b) He was apparently winning a lot of money.
c) He was sitting on a high stool at the bar and drinking a lot o f whisky.
d) Mr. Randle, a rich banker, removed his pocket-book, extracted some notes and returned it
to its original place.
2. What proved that Mr. Robert could hardly believe what he saw?
a) He came up to the baccarat table as close as possible.
b) He asked Percy Jater to explain what was going on.
c) He wanted to rub his eyes for fear they were deceiving him.
d) He was deeply absorbed into his own thoughts that he could hardly see anything at all.
3. Why did Percy Jater move away from the scene o f the theft?
a) He wanted to leave the Casino quickly.
b) Because o f the fear to be noticed and accused o f the theft.
c) He desired to continue playing the game at another part o f the table.
d) He wanted to visit the Casino's bar.
4. What question tortured Mr. Robert?
a) He had to debate whether he should expose Jater or not.
b) He wondered if Jater would share the money equally.
c) He wondered whether the Casino detective would catch him.
d) He had to debate whether to leave the Casino with Jater or to stay.
5. Why did Mr. Robert leave the Casino as soon as he knew Jater had vanished?
a) He was afraid o f being caught by the Casino detective.
b) He didn't want the Casino detective to ask him questions.
c) He didn't want to be searched together with everyone present.
d) He followed Jater to tell him he had seen everything.
6. What did Mr. Robert advise Percy Jater to do?
a) He suggested their going to the police
b) He offered him to share the money equally.
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c) He told him to leave the place immediately.
d) He advised Jater to return the money to the victims.
Text 5 There are few occasions in life when one is in such a tight place that one is unable to help
others. But I can record two incidents, which happened when I moved out for the last time as an
evacuee myself. I left Tamu on 9 April, 1942, under the scorching midday sun, carrying all the kit I
possessed, and leading a friend's faithful old Labrador -for I had lost my own dogs. As I turned a
bend where the track took o ff for the first ascent into the M anipur hills, I found two sobbing little
Indian children, a girl o f about seven and a boy o f about four. Against the bank lay an Indian girl-
mother, aged about twenty, dying o f thirst, hunger, exhaustion and grief. I could do nothing less
than give her a drink out o f my water-bottle, and in her eyes I read gratitude and a terrible question,
«What will happen to my children?» While I was looking at her, in despair o f doing anything, the
change came suddenly, and a moment later I realized that I was left alone with the responsibility o f
these children, and that every man and woman coming up the road was fighting for his or her own
life, and many o f them would be lucky if they could save themselves. I could not carry one child,
even if I were to leave the other. Something made it impossible for me to go on and so I turned back
instead. Providence came to my aid, for within a mile I met a jeep - one o f the first jeeps we had
seen on that road. It was being driven by a Staff Captain, whom I had met a few days previously in
Tamu.
I stepped out in front o f him, blocking the track, taking the risk that he would drive over me
or send me spinning down the roadside. But he recognized me, and pulled up. Then he greeted me
with the words: «Can't be done, old chap. If I pick you up, I'll never get through, and I have to get
over the mountains before dark.»
I told him I would rather die by the roadside than be in such a car, or take the risk of being
driven by him, but I begged him to take the two children, packed under his kit in the back, and to
drop them at the evacuee camp at Imphal.