enjoyed the dinner and they felt that the fish had never tasted better. When they left the restaurant, they were already friends with each other. And they shared their names.
2 Read the following statements and then decide whether each of them is true or false based on the information contained in Text B. Write T for True and F for False in the space provided before each statement.
1) T On Sundays the author and his wife take the bus to go to church regularly for years.
2) F The bus driver is required to remember the stop of every regular passenger.
(He is not required to do so. But he makes it his business to remember where every regular passenger should get off the bus.)
3) F The silent woman always gets the driver a cup of coffee because she is well-off.
(The worn clothing of t he silent woman suggests she doesn‘t have much money to spare, but she always clutches an extra cup of coffee for the driver.)
4) F The driver has to wake up the factory security guard every time and reminds him of getting off the bus.
(The security guard closes his eyes until the precise moment that the bus approaches his stop. Then, he opens his eyes and gets off the bus.)
5) T The rotund fellow is very grateful because other people have helped him.
6) T The passengers enjoy their ride together and words or names are not necessary to them.
7) F The author and his wife developed a good relationship with the silent woman after taking the same bus for some months.
(For many months, the only sadness for the author and his wife is that they can‘t e stablish the same rapport with the silent woman.)
8) F They found their fish tasted better because they shared a good dinner with the silent woman.
(They found their fish tasted better because they had finally learned the story of the silent woman and made friends with her.)
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
Working with Words and Expressions
1 In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences with the words given. Change the form where necessary.
1) My neighbours are a friendly bunch of people.