Question

Why does the author dislike using a public telephone booth?

• A. because public telephones are defective
• B. because of suffocation in public telephone booths by stale and unventilated air flavoured by cheap face powder
• C. because it is cheap
• D. because the other side may not know your number

Answer 1

The correct option is B because of suffocation in public telephone booths by stale and unventilated air flavoured by cheap face powder

Option B: As it's mentioned in the passage, "As for speaking in a public telephone booth, that seems to be really horrible... When you do get into the booth, you are half suffocated by stale, unventilated air, flavoured with cheap face-powder and chain smoking".

Hence option B is correct.

Options A, C and D: These lines are neither mentioned nor implied by the passage. Hence options A, C and D are wrong.