Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.
The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. But I say there are three, because I’ve been on the third level of the Grand Central Station. Yes, I’ve taken the obvious step: I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third level at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a waking dream wish fulfillment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad, but he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape.
1 What, according to the narrator, will the presidents swear on?
A) the existence of the third level
B) there being a stock of timetables
C) the non-existence of a third level
D) there being a second level
2. The phrase ‘waking-dream wish fulfillment’ means:
A) we do not wish for something to happen
B) we wake up suddenly from a dream
C) we see something as we wish to see it
D) our subconscious mind
3. Why was Charley’s wife ‘kind of mad’?
A) to see her husband confused.
B) to hear that her husband was not happy.
C) as no one believed Charley about the third level.
D) due to Charley’s insistence on there being a third level.
4 What does man in the modern world want to escape?
A) anxiety
B) suspicion
C) jealousy
D) indifference
