C.     The judge said that the farmer should return the handbag to the woman at once.

D.     The judge thought there was no watch in her handbag at all.

(     ) 5. Where was the expensive watch?

       A. The woman had taken it herself.   B. The farmer had kept it.

       C. The judge had taken it away.       D. There wasn’t a watch at all.

B

   A young man once went into town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that they were about two inches too long.

   He went downstairs to the kitchen. His mother and two sisters were washing up the tea-things there. “The new trousers are too long,” he said. “They need shortening by about two inches. Could one of you do it for me please?” his mother and sisters were busy and none of them said anything.

    But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, she went quietly upstairs to her son’s bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. Se came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters.

    Later on, after supper, the elder sister remembered her brother’s trousers. She was a kind-hearted girl, so she went quietly upstairs without saying anything to anyone, and shortened the trousers by two inches.

    The younger sister went the cinema, but when she came home she, too, remembered her brother’s trousers. So she ran upstairs and did as her mother and her sister had done.

    You can imagine the look on the young man’s face when he put on the trousers on the next morning.

(     ) 1. The young man’s trousers were _____ for him at first.

       A. a bit too long   B. very good         C. not too long       D. too shortliuxuepaper.com