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Read the passage given below carefully and select the correct options as your answers to the questions that follow it.

I was never a great athlete but I managed to win a prize once. My house-master reckoned I might have a chance to win. We were each given three jumps. I thought I jumped very well the first time but it was a foul jump. So I waited for my next jump.

I saw the other competitors leap like gazelles into the sand-pit. When one particular tall boy, the eventual winner, made his jump, I knew that no one else would be able to beat him.

No one did. I was delighted to collect my little plastic Consolation Prize from the Headmaster.

What is the meaning of reckoned as used in the passage?

A)  told               

B)         guessed  

C)  decided              

D)  requested