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Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. 

They lectured to him every day on their theories, and he got more and more the feeling that they wanted him to deal with the boy as if he were made of thin glass. He had to pretend that he agreed with them, while his own private view was that he was in charge of a little gorilla.

a) Who does ‘they ‘refer to in the passage? 

b) What mood does the expression ‘as if he were made of thin glass express? 

a. indifference

b. rudeness 

c. carefulness 

d. contempt 

c) Express your views on the attitude of the teacher.

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a) The boy’s parents. 

b) contempt 

c) The parents loved the boy too much and pampered him. They wanted the teacher also do the same. The teacher pretended as if he agreed with the parents. But he knew that  the boy whom he had to teach was a mischievous imp, a monster, a gorilla, who needed caning and not cajoling.

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