English Comprehension: Medium Test 1
20 questions · 25 minutes
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Example questions from this paper
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- Why has the narrator come to Ashenholt?
- ‘a frost so even it might have been measured out with a ruler’ (lines 2–3) Why is this a good way of describing the frost?
- ‘Nobody explained why, and I was too busy to ask’ (lines 7–8) What does this suggest about the narrator at this point?
- ‘he shook my hand as though he had been expecting me for years’ (lines 10–11) What does this tell us about Mr Ableman?
- How many years of weather records did Mr Ableman keep in his ledgers? (lines 13–14)
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- Check the marks available. A three-mark question wants three distinct points, not one point expressed at length.
- For a vocabulary question, reread the sentence around the word and substitute your suggested meaning to see whether it still makes sense.