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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages with some questions following each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - 5

Winston Churchil was lecturing in Toronto when the amplifying system broke down. Angry cries of Louder! Louder! began at once. Churchill raised his hand for quiet. Grasping his portable microphone which hung from his lapel, he held it afloat for all to see and with a dramatic gesture flung it to the ground where it smashed to pieces. Then he thundered, "Now that we have exhausted the resources of science, we shall fall back upon mother Nature!"

  When the audience started shouting Churchil

A) got irritated

B) raised his hand to pacify them

C) threatened them with a raised hand

D) abandoned his speech