Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. Before making their permanent move to France, the couple spent three years learning the language.
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Before making a permanent move to France, the couple spent three years learning French
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The couple studied French before relocating to France
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Before moving permanently to France, the couple learned the language
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The couple spent three years learning the language before their permanent move to France
Q.2.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. The ghost of Banquo has entered and sat in Macbeth's place at the table. : The table's full. : Here is a place reserv'd, sir. : Where? : Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness? : Which of you have done this? : What, my good lord? : Thou canst not say, I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me. From , by William Shakespeare.
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Macbeth is shocked and frightened by the appearance of Banquo's ghost at his table
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Macbeth asks which of you has done this and says never shake your gory locks at me
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Which of the lords has played a trick on Macbeth? The table's full and there's no room
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You can't say I did it. Which of you is playing a trick on me?
Q.3.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. 'By that time I was shrieking. Jem yanked my hair, said he didn't care, he'd do it again if he got a chance, and if I didn't shut up he'd pull every hair out of my head. I didn't shut up and he kicked me. I lost my balance and fell on my face. Jem picked me up roughly but looked like he was sorry.' - From , by Harper Lee
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I was shrieking. Jem pulled my hair. He said he didn't care. He said he'd do it again
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Scout was shrieking. Jem pulled her hair. He said he didn't care. He said he'd do it again
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Jem and Scout fought viciously, but when when Scout was hurt, Jem felt apologetic
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Jem and Scout fought for a while and stopped when Scout was hurt. Then Jem looked sorry
Q.4.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. 'Curley's fist was swinging when Lennie reached for it. The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line, and his closed fist was lost in Lennie's big hand. George ran down the room. "Leggo of him, Lennie. Let go."' - From , by John Steinbeck.
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Curley was flopping like a fish because Lennie swung for his hand until George said let go
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Lennie reached for Curley and closed his fist in his big hand. George made him let go
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Curley, who provoked the fight, turned out to be no match for Lennie, who only stopped when ordered to do so
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Curley flopped like a pathetic fish when he tried to pick a fight with Lennie's big hand
Q.5.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. Line-drying the washing is better for the environment than using a tumble dryer.
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Line-drying the washing is good for the environment, unlike using a tumble dryer
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Line-drying the washing is good for the environment, unlike tumble drying
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Drying clothes outdoors is more environmentally-friendly than tumble drying
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Drying clothes outdoors is better for the environment than using a tumble dryer
Q.6.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. '"I think you are tongue-tied," said Scully finally to his son, the cowboy, and the Easterner; and at the end of this scornful sentence he left the room.' - From Stephen Crane's short story, .
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Scully tells his son, the cowboy and the Easterner that they are tongue-tied, then he leaves the room
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Scully says I think you are tongue-tied to his son, the cowboy and the Easterner, then leaves the room
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Scully is angry with everyone
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Scully insults the three men, making an accusation of their silence, before storming out of the room
Q.7.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. 'My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near / Between the woods and frozen lake / The darkest evening of the year.' - From Robert Frost's poem, 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.
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The narrator's little horse thinks he's strange for stopping on the darkest evening of the year
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The narrator's little horse is wondering where the nearest farmhouse is
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The narrator is afraid of the dark woods and is wondering where the nearest farmhouse is
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The narrator contrasts his actions with an animal's desire for basic comforts
Q.8.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. The minister and his aides drove away from the fraught meeting with a perceptible air of relief.
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The minister and his aides drove away from the difficult meeting with a perceptible air of relief
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The minster and his aides left the fraught meeting with a perceptible air of relief
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The minister and his aides left the difficult meeting with an air of relief
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The minister and his aides seemed relieved as they left the difficult meeting
Q.9.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. 'I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? / The palm trees on the reverse / are a delusion; so is the pink sand. / What we have are the usual / fractured coke bottles and the smell / of backed-up drains, too sweet, / like a mango on the verge / of rot, which we have also.' - From 'Postcards', by Margaret Atwood.
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The narrator expresses the disappointment felt when a holiday doesn't match expectations
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The narrator describes the holiday scene, which is exactly like a beautiful postcard
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The narrator has nothing to say
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The narrator writes of the complaint she has made to the hotel staff about the poor accommodation
Q.10.
Choose the answer which best paraphrases the following. 'Quietly the Brother Officer went out. / He'd told the poor old dear some gallant lies / That she would nourish all her days, no doubt. / For while he coughed and mumbled, her weak eyes / Had shone with gentle triumph, brimmed with joy, / Because he'd been so brave, her glorious boy.' - From Siegfried Sassoon's poem, 'The Hero'.
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The officer coughs and mumbles and tells some gallant lies
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The dead soldier, her glorious, dear boy, had been so brave
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The officer takes pity on the bereaved mother by allowing her to remember her son as courageous
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The Brother Officer went out quietly after telling some lies to the poor old dear
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