6.7 Interview

 INTERVIEW

An interview is a conversation where questions are asked and answers are given. Some brief bits of interviews are given below. Read them carefully and answer the questions given below them.

Sample Question

Read the interview and he questions given below :

Reporter : What is your name and how old are you? Woman : I am Ramabai, and I am 74 years old. Reporter: How long have you been here? Woman : 4 years. My son and daughter-in-law left me here when they went to another town. They said that there was no place in the new house for me, and that I would be happier here. Reporter : How do you find the other inmates here? Woman : They are all unhappy old women. They would have loved to stay with their families, but their families do not want them. All of us are trying to make do with whatever we have here. Reporter : Do you get many visitors ? Woman : No. No one visits me. The others too have very few visitors.

    1. Where is the woman, who is being interviewed, living?

            (1) in her own home     (2) in a friend's home     (3) in a hospital     (4) in an old-age home

  2. The meaning of the phrase 'make do with’ is :

(1) accept something you are happy with

(2) accept something less satisfactory because there's no alternative.

(3) not to accept something and remain unhappy

(4) to make something that you always wanted to

  3. 'They would have loved to stay with their families.' Choose the correct

      Wh-question to get the underlined part as the answer.

(1) Whom they loved to stay with ?

(2) Whom they love to stay with ?

(3) With whom would they have loved to stay?

(4) Whom with they would have loved to stay?