Mrs. Green was the manager of a large company, and she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did, so she often found the air during the meetings terrible. One day, after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air-conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.

After a few days the air-conditioning company sent in two estimates for Mrs. Green to choose from. One estimate was for $5,000 to put in new air-conditioning, and the other was for $5.00 for a sign which said, NO SMOKING.

A   Answer these questions:

1. Why did Mrs. Green have to have meetings with business people?
2. Why did she often find the air in the meetings terrible?
3. What did it do to her?
4. What did she do about it? 5.
5. What did the air-conditioning company do?
6. What did Mrs. Green have to choose between?

B.  What words in the story mean the same as:

1- big

2- often

3- painful

4- phoned

5- very bad

C.   Finish the second sentence in each pair (both sentences have the same meaning):

Example:  a.  Mrs. Green found the air in the meetings terrible.

                b.  Mrs. Green found that the air in the meetings was terrible.

1.  a.   She saw the air full of smoke.

     b.   She saw that --------------------------------------------------

2.  a. She noticed the smoke rising.

     b. She noticed that ------------------------------------------------

3.  a. She felt her throat burning.

     b. She felt that -------------------------------------------------

4.  a. She confessed to being puzzled.

     b. She confessed that -----------------------------------------------

5.  a. She expected the air-conditioning company to find the answer difficult.

     b. She expected that

6.  a. But the air-conditioning company found the answer easy.

      b. But the air-conditioning company found that ………………