New Oxford Modern English 6 ( (In a Tunnel)

Course Book (In a Tunnel)

Answer the following questions.

1)   Why are the carriage windows pulled up when the train goes through a tunnel?

Ans: The train engines always a scream. But when it moves into a tunnel then the noise of the running, rattling train changes and grows different and much louder. Hats why the carriage windows pulled up when the train goes through a tunnel.

2)   What kind of things do you see in a tunnel?

Ans: A lot of things can be seen in the tunnel. Everything in the tunnel remains calm and quite. We can see sliding stones and gravel on a path that curves downwards from the shining metals on the wall. Moreover we can also see slimy oozy trickles of water running down the inside of the tunnel and in the tunnel the bricks are red in brown became sickly green in course of time.

3)   How many children are there in the tunnel?

Ans: In the tunnel there were three children. They were Phyllis, Bobbie, Peter

4)   Which child is the most frightened?

Ans: Bobbie is the most frightened among the three children.

5)   Peter asks the others:’ and what’s that? What is the ‘that’ he refers to?

Ans: As the three children became frightened hearing the humming sound on the railway line, Peter asks the others: “What’s that? Here that refers to the sound of the rattling train.

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6)   What are the wires over which Phyllis stumbles?

Ans: The wires over which Phyllis stumbles were the wires of telegraph.

7)   How does the author describe the train “hurtling by”?

Ans: The author describe the train “hurtling by” as with a  rush and a roar and a rattle dazzling flash of lighted carriage windows, a smell of smoke and blast of hot air, the train hurtled by, clanging and jangling and echoing in the vaulted roof of the tunnel.