English Comprehension: Hard Test 1
20 questions · 25 minutes
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Example questions from this paper
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- How often was the narrator allowed to ride the whole route with his mother? (lines 1–3)
- ‘I had looked forward to it for eleven weeks, and I would not have admitted that to anybody.’ (lines 4–5) What does this tell us about the narrator?
- ‘let them picture an office’ (line 8) Why did the narrator answer his schoolfriends in this way?
- ‘None of them had ever seen the city at half past eleven at night. I had, and I said nothing about that either.’ (lines 8–10) What do these two sentences suggest?
- ‘patient as cattle’ (line 12) This is an example of…
Before you begin, remember
- For a vocabulary question, reread the sentence around the word and substitute your suggested meaning to see whether it still makes sense.
- Read the whole passage before looking at the questions, then go back to find each answer. Skimming for keywords alone misses the inference questions entirely.