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Read the following paragraph and answer the questions given below.

I can’t stand it. Oh, Joe! Joe! Joe! (Man 4 groans.)

Small Boy: What was that noise, Mummy?

Woman 8: Don’t ask awkward questions, Maurice.

Man 7: I’ll tell you, little boy. That noise was a man having a tooth out. That’s how it’s going to sound when you have yours out, only much, much louder, because then it’ll be inside your head.

Woman 6: What a thing to tell a small boy!

Man 6: Disgusting!

Man 7: It’ll do the lad good. Bring‘em up natural, I always say.

(a) What is unbearable for woman 1?

(b) Who asked awkward questions?

(c) Why does the woman think that the question was awkward?

(d) Why was the answer to the boy’s question considered “disgusting”?

(e) How did man 7 justify his answer? .

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(a) The sawing, screeching sound accompanied by a loud groan from the surgery room upsets woman 1. She thinks that her husband Joe, the first patient is subjected to torture.

(b) Maurice asked awkward questions.

(c) Screeching sound and groaning sound are quite common in the surgery room of a Dentist when he is extracting a bad teeth. So, the question about the groan is said to be awkward.

(d) The man 7 answered that the noise was from a man whose tooth was being extracted. He added when the little boy’s tooth is extracted there would be louder noise. So, this owner is deemed ‘disgusting’.

(e) Man 7 justified his answer that it would help the lady to raise her son in a natural way.

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