(b) Mini-Moris went past the stranger and then stopped.
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He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills.
Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn’t going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him.
Pat was horrified. ‘Aren’t you stopping, Bill?’ I shook my head. ‘Too risky’.
It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop.
I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his cheek.
‘Anybody else in the car?’
‘No, on my own. If you could give me a lift’.
I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door.
‘Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a busy road, is it?’
‘Not at twelve o’clock at night’, Pat said, turning round to smile at him. ‘We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn’t want to go, but I was keen. He isn’t a bad brother, really’.
Which of the following statements is/are right?
(a) The stranger did not seem to be badly hurt.
(b) Mini-Moris went past the stranger and then stopped.
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Correct answer: (D) Both (a) and (b) are right.
Explanation
The stranger had only a cut on his cheek and could walk and talk, so he was not badly hurt. Bill drove round him and only then, seeing the car in the ditch, braked to a stop, so both statements are right.