Question ID - 84868 | SaraNextGen Top Answer

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.                                                                        PASSAGE     I used to have my meals at a vegetarian restaurant. Here I met Mr. Albert West. We used to meet in this restaurant every evening and go out walking after dinner. Mr. West was a partner in a small printing concern. He read my letter in the press about the outbreak of the plague and, not finding me in the restaurant, felt uneasy.      My co-workers and I had reduced our diet since the outbreak, as I had long made it a rule to go on a light diet during epidemics. In these days I had therefore give up my evening dinner. Lunch also I would finish before the other guests arrived. I knew the proprietor of the restaurant very well, and I had informed him that, as I was engaged in nursing the plague patients, I wanted to avoid the contact of friends as much as possible.      Not finding me in the restaurant for a day or two. Mr. West knocked at my door early one morning just as I was getting ready to go out for a walk. As I opened the door Mr. West said: ‘I did not find you in the restaurant and was really afraid lest something should have happened to you’.
What did the speaker and Mr. Albert West do every evening?
(a)	Went walking and met at the restaurant for eating.	(b)	After eating, met at the restaurant to go for walking.
(c)	Met to the restaurant and went out walking after dinner.	(d)	Had dinner speaker walked in the restaurant.
Why did the speaker not come to the restaurant?
(a)	He wanted to contact all his friends.	(b)	He had decided to diet in order to lose weight.
(c)	He did not want to meet Mr. albert and was avoiding him.	(d)	He was taking care of plague patients.
Mr. Albert West was
(a)	considering to become a partner of the printing press.	(b)	a partner in a small printing press.
(c)	a partner in a large printing press.	(d)	concerned about printing.
Why did Mr. Albert West knock at the speaker’s house?
(a)	To go out walking with the speaker.	(b)	To make him a partner in the printing press.
(c)	To avoid contact with friends.	(d)	Because he was worried that something had happened to the speaker.
Why was Mr. West uneasy?
(a)	Because he could not find the speaker in the restaurant.	(b)	He was concerned about the printing press.
(c)	he had eaten something in the restaurant.	(d)	He was avoiding his friends.