1.After a loud noise the train stopped and people began to talk at the same time.

2.The narrator was serious when he said “the men in my ship two miles away could hear it.”

3.The fat man in uniform, perhaps, belonged to the train station.

4.He called one police officer to take the narrator away to the police-station

5.The police officer did as the fat man told him.

1. “A noise started above our heads.” Here the noise was given out by _____.

[A] the shouting angry men

[B] the ship two miles away

[C] the falling of boxes and suitcases

[D] the train itself telling people that the train would stop

2. The fat man, dressed in blue, was _____.

[A] trying to move suitcases from the corridor

[B] angry at the narrator for stopping the train

[C] trying to help the man who wanted to get out

[D] angry he could not speak to the man because the window was closed

3. The statement “I thought that he was going to need a doctor” means _____.

[A] I thought he was angry

[B] I thought he should call a doctor

[C] I thought he was so angry he would make himself ill

[D] I thought he had gone mad

4. When the police officer went to the train he wanted _____.

[A] to arrest the man who had stopped the train

[B] to clear the way for the man to get out

[C] to find out what was wrong in the train

[D] to talk to the man who had stopped the train

5. Why did the police officer change his mind?

[A] He was too tired from moving suitcases.

[B] He liked the man who had stopped the train.

[C] He thought it too much trouble to arrest the man.

[D] He understood why the man had to stop the train.