PASSAGE IV

A Wolf, seeing a Lamb drinking from a river, wanted to find a pretext for devouring him. He stood higher up the stream and accused the lamb of muddying the water so that he could not drink. The lamb said that he drank only with tip of his tongue, and that in any case he was standing lower down the river, and could not possibly disturb the water higher up. When this excuse failed him, the wolf said: Well, last year you insulted my father. I wasnt even born then, replied the lamb.

You are good at finding answers, said the wolf, but what do you mean by taking up so much of the path where I am walking? The lamb, frightened at the wolfs angry tone and terrible aspect, told him, with all due submission, that he could not conceive how his walking on such a wide path could occasion him inconvenience. What! exclaimed the wolf, seemingly in great anger and indignation. You are as impudent as your father who seized me by the throat last year, and caused me to be kept in a cage for three months.

If you will believe me, said the lamb, my parents are poor simple creatures who live entirely by green stuff; we are none of us hunters of your species. Ah! I see its no use talking to you, said the wolf, drawing up close to him. It runs in the blood of your family to hate us wolves, and therefore, as we have come so conveniently together, Ill just pay off a few of your forefathers scores before we part. So saying, he leapt at the lamb from behind and garroted him.

21. The charges levelled against the lamb are

The expression when this excuse failed him suggests that the

The expression angry tone and terrible aspect refers to the wolfs

LEXIS, STRUCTURE AND ORAL FORMS

In each of questions 26 and 27, choose the option that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

26. bear

nine

In each of the questions 28 and 29, choose the appropriate stress pattern from the options. The syllables are written in capital letters.

28. expostulate

In each of questions 30 to 54, choose the option that best completes the gap(s)

30. He isnt coming home, is he? ....., he isnt.