Exercise 2. Answer the following questions within fifteen words

1. How many people got into the bus with the younger woman?
2. What was the conductor’s order to the younger woman?
3. Why did the conductor stand triumphant?
4. What is that rule which cannot be broken without danger to life and limb?

Answer

1. Two women and a man got into the bus together and filled the vacant places.
2. The conductor ordered the younger woman to take her dog out of the bus.
3. The conductor stood triumphant because he had enforced his order that the dog must be taken off the bus, and he had the law on his side.
4. The rule which cannot be broken without danger to life and limb is the rule of the road.