1. Nobby and Jim work in the same office and they have been good friends.

2. When Jim and Nobby were being questioned, Nobby did the talking most of the time.

3. The policeman thought Jim was a suspicious character because he was the only other person in the office when the money disappeared.

4. When Nobby went out to buy the newspaper, he slipped the note into his desk dictionary. He was afraid Jim might steal the money while he was out.

5. Nobby tried to throw the blame on Jim.

6. Nobby reveals his own guilt by saying he put the note between pages 123 and 124.

1.We can learn from this dialogue that .

A)money had never been stolen in that office

B)money was often stolen in that office

C)it was not in the office that the money was stolen

D)it was not the first time that money was stolen

2.Jim said that Nobby sometimes checked the mail too well. What did he mean by this?

A) Nobby always checked the mail very carefully.

B) Nobby only checked the mail sometimes.

C) Nobby would sometimes take cash from the mail.

D) Nobby sometimes checked the mail carefully and at other times he did not do so.

3.Nobby meant to tell the policeman in the interview that .

A)he didn’t like Jim

B)Jim was lazy in his work

C)the boss liked him better than Jim

D)Jim was a suspicious character

4.When the policeman called Nobby a “clever boy ”, his intention was .

A)to praise Nobby for acting sensibly

B)to find fault with Nobby

C)to hear whether Nobby had anything else to say

D)to give Nobby the impression that his explanation was accepted as the truth

5.The officer didn’t believe Nobby had put the money in the dictionary because .

A)Jim would have known about it

B)it would still be in the dictionary

C)you can’t put a bill between pages 123and 124. They are the two sides of one piece of printed paper

D)pages 123and 124were torn out of the dictionary

6.Finally we can decide that Jim was .

A)careless

B)blameless

C)faithful to his boss

D)friendly to Nobby