CHAPTER 10 STUDENT BOOK (MCB) LISTENING TEXTS AND ANSWER KEY
Warm up
Free response.
Sample answer—
•
A good mystery is one which is not very
obvious. It must keep the reader interested
and curious to the very end.
•
The writer builds up suspense by providing
many twists and turns in the tale and by
keeping us guessing until the very end
who the culprit is.
•
Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Feluda,
Byomkesh Bakshi, and so on
Comprehension
A. 1.
The narrator was an observant man. He
looked at people, noticed things about them
and wondered who they were. He watched
what they were doing and wondered why they
were doing it. He showed and sold things to
customers at
Regnier
’s, an antique jewellery
shop. In the morning, his duty was to put
some pieces of jewellery in the window of the
shop and he had to take them out at night.
2.
The narrator found the ring in the third
tray missing when he turned back to the
counter after taking out a fourth tray of rings
from the safe.
3.
The man glared at Ms
Susskind as she suggested that he look for the
missing ring in the turn-ups of his trousers.
4.
A young woman had come into the shop and
laid out a paper packet containing a brooch on
the counter. She asked for it to be repaired. When
the narrator told her that they did not do repairs,
she turned to leave and her bag touched the
paper in such a way that it fell on the narrator’s
side of the counter. This seemed like an accident
but to the narrator it seemed that this was done
on purpose.
5.
The narrator noticed that
the girl took out a packet from her bag with her
left hand, even though she was not left-handed.
Then the girl put her left hand just where the
man, who was left-handed, had put his hand
after the narrator had taken the tray of rings
out of the safe—just before he noticed that the
flower ring was missing. He remembered that
the man had stopped chewing gum when they
were all searching for the ring. The man had not
moved from where he was standing. So he must
have put it somewhere within reach. There was
nowhere he could have put it, except under the
edge of the counter. That’s where the narrator
looked for the chewing gum, just as the girl was
turning to go out of the shop. There was a mark
on the gum where the ring was pressed into it.
As the narrator handed the brooch to the girl
and she turned to leave, he asked her to stop
and to hand over the ring she had hidden in
the left pocket of her coat.
6.
The man had
stolen the ring when the narrator had turned
his back to get out the fourth tray of rings. He
had used his chewing gum to stick it under the
edge of the counter. The girl had then followed
his instructions and taken the ring from under
the edge of the counter and put it in the left
pocket of her coat. The ring was recovered when
the narrator insisted that the girl return the ring
and scared her by mentioning exactly where she
had kept it. The girl was afraid of being caught so
she handed over the ring to the narrator.
B.
1.
c. it was gone before the narrator took out
other rings to show the man.
2.
a. asked to search his turn-ups.
3.
b. confident that he would not be caught.
4.
b. drawing attention to the attempted theft.
5.
c. agreed with the narrator that the girl knew
that
Regnier’s
did not do cheap repairs.
C. 1.
a. This shows that the man was either angry
or trying to hide something and that he had
kept his chewing gum somewhere in the
shop. Later, the narrator realised that the man
had stopped chewing gum because he had
used it to press the ring under the edge of the
counter. b. The action of the girl dropping the
paper packet containing the brooch was made
to seem like an accident. This means that she
was up to something and wanted to distract
the narrator. c. Since the narrator knew that
the girl was not left-handed, this action is odd
and makes one immediately wonder whether
the girl was in league with the man and that
they had planned the theft of the ring together.
Know your Values
Free response.
Sample answer—
It is important to think carefully before you do
or say anything because acting rashly can have
consequences you did not plan for and can often
adversely affect you and/or other people. Therefore,
it is important to plan your actions to prevent this.
Grammar
2.
to lift
3.
to watch
4.
to ask
5.
to drive
6.
to have
7.
to vacate
8.
to post
B. 2.
Mr Kapoor requested Priya to water his
plants while he was away.
3.
The officer
warned us to not run across the street.
4.
Kanan advised Ashwini to tell her parents
the truth.
5.
Deep told Arnab that he
does not know what to study for the exams.
6.
Ms Halim reminded her students to submit
their books before they went home.
Vocabulary
A.
2.
d
3.
b
4.
a
5.
c
Spelling
1.
AmE
2.
BrE
3.
BrE
4.
AmE
5.
BrE
6.
AmE
B. 1.
analyse
2.
favourite
3.
theatre
4.
dialogue
5.
encyclopaedia
6.
defence
Listening
1.
a. in 1937
2.
d. She worked as a nurse.
3.
b. nurse and pilot
4.
c. after flying across the Atlantic Ocean
5.
c. when she was flying over the Pacific Ocean
6.
a. She attempted to fly around the world and
disappeared.
Writing
Regnier’s
22, Central Road
London
12 March 2017
The Editor
The Telegraph
London
Dear Sir,
Subject: Attempted theft in jewellery store
I am compelled to inform you about an attempted
theft in my jewellery store,
Regnier
’s, on Friday, 11
March.
At about 10 in the morning, a man about thirty-five
years of age, wearing regular clothes and a very
bright tie, entered the store. He wanted to see some
rings. After looking at three trays of rings, he asked
to be shown a fourth tray. After the shop attendant
had brought out this tray, he noticed that a ring
which had diamonds and rubies arranged in a flower
pattern had gone missing. On questioning, the man
said that he had not taken it. The shop attendants
searched everywhere for the ring but were unable
to find it. The ring was not found on the person of
the customer either. We were perplexed. At about
this time, a young girl, wearing a long yellow coat
with black squares on it, entered the store. She had
long yellow hair.
She asked for a cheap brooch to be repaired even
though
Regnier
’s doesn’t do cheap repairs. On
being informed of this, she started to leave but
accidentally dropped a paper on the other side
of the counter. This was a ruse, as our salesperson
found out later.
After some quick thinking and good observation on
the part of our salesperson, the ring was retrieved
from the girl. The man, who had been chewing gum,
had stuck the gum with the ring in it under the edge
of the counter glass. The girl was his ally and knew
where the ring was kept. She was about to leave
with it when she was caught.
I would like to use the platform of the newspaper
to alert other shop owners and the people in
general about the occurrence of such well-planned
thefts. If these people are seen anywhere and
they persist in such illegal activities, we must draw
attention to them. We must be alert and watchful
of our surroundings and immediately report such
activities.
Yours Sincerely,
Paul Regnier
Owner
Regnier
’s
Listening text
One of the greatest mysteries in aviation history is
the disappearance of the first woman pilot, Amelia
Earhart, in 1937.
Earhart had served as a nurse in World War I and
had admired women achievers since her childhood.
Despite a health problem, she moved to California
for flight training. Amelia Earhart broke many flying
records during the 1930s. She went on to set the
world record for the highest altitude reached by a
woman. She was both the first woman passenger
to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and later, the first
woman pilot to do so.
In 1937, Earhart attempted to become the first
woman to fly an aeroplane around the world.
During that historic trip, she and her navigator, Fred
Noonan, vanished forever. They were scheduled to
land on Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. But
she lost radio contact while flying over the Pacific
Ocean.
After their disappearance, the US government
launched a search, but no trace of the plane was
found. Some people think Earhart's plane ran out
of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Others
believe she may have crash-landed on a deserted
island and was never rescued. Many books and films
have been based on her inspiring life and sudden
disappearance.
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