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09/02/2021 6:44 pm
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
Please don’t joke, Gaston. What this lady says is perfectly right. Will you tell me, Madame, what price you are asking for the Villa?
(a) Who asks Gaston not to joke? Who does ‘this lady’ refer to?
(b) What was the joke told by Gaston?
(c) Why was Gaston joking while speaking to the lady?
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09/02/2021 6:45 pm
(a) Jeanne asks Gaston not to joke. ‘This lady refers to Juliette'.
(b) ‘On the principle of people who like children and haven’t any can always go and live near a school’.
(c) Gaston was joking because he was not at all interested in buying the villa.