Question 101
MediumOriginal questionIshaan: So it's . Manali, the second week of June. All five of us.
Tanvi: Sounds lovely.
Ishaan: You'll come, won't you? We need five to share the car.
Tanvi: Of course. Well, probably. It a few things.
Ishaan: Like what?
Tanvi: My cousin might be visiting that week. And the coaching classes might start early. And you know how my mother is about mountains.
Ishaan: Your cousin visits every June. You've never let her stop you before.
Tanvi: This time she might stay longer.
Ishaan: Tanvi. Is it the money?
Tanvi: (after a long ) It's a bit more than I thought.
Ishaan: Why didn't you just say so?
Tanvi: Because it sounds so small. Everyone else said yes straight away.
Ishaan: It's not small. We'll take the bus instead of the car, and stay in the hostel, not the hotel. It'll cost half as much.
Tanvi: You'd do that?
Ishaan: The hills look exactly the same from a bus.
What do Tanvi's many reasons for maybe not coming suggest?
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Her reasons keep changing: a cousin, coaching classes, her mother. Ishaan points out that her cousin never stopped her before.
When he asks about money, she admits after a long silence that it costs more than she expected. The earlier reasons were covering this.
Worth noting
Her cousin does visit, but Ishaan's reply shows that it has never been a real obstacle before.
- Concept
- Recognising excuses in dialogue
- Typical timeTypical
- 45 s
- Your timeYours
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