Reading
Part 1
You are going to read three extracts which are all concerned in some way with travel and tourism. For questions 1--6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
EXTRACT FROM A NOVEL
'Oh, Lyn, you can't be serious.' Bridget Cooper flicked her auburn hair back in a careless gesture that distracted every man within a two-table radius, and glanced at me reprovingly. 'You look like death warmed up, you know. The last thing you should do is take another transatlantic flight.' With anybody else, I might have argued that I'd slept straight through the New York flight two days ago, and that my next business flight wouldn't be until the twenty-first of January. _. but with Bridget, I knew, I'd be wasting my breath. Besides, I'd known her long enough to realise this was simply preamble. Bridget never worried about anybody's health except her own. And she never rang me at nine on a Monday, suggesting we meet and have lunch, unless she had a reason. Bridget was a one-off, an exceptionally talented writer with a wild imagination that made her books for children instant classics, and a wild nature that drove the poor directors of my literary agency to distraction. In the four years since I'd signed her as a client, Bridger's books had earned a fortune for the Simon Holland Agency, but her unpredictability had caused much tearing of hair among my colleagues. My favourite of her escapades - the day she'd kicked the BBC presenter - was now a Simon Holland legend. And I, who had survived four years, and one week's holiday in France with Bridget, had risen to the status of a martyr. ~
-----How does Lyn feel when Bridget advises her against travelling? A B C D 2 touched by her friend's concern offended by her friend's reasons surprised at her friend's insistence suspicious of her friend's motives
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What do we learn about Lyn's colleagues? A B C D They are unwilling to work with Bridget. They find it hard to take
You are going to read three extracts which are all concerned in some way with travel and tourism. For questions 1--6, choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
EXTRACT FROM A NOVEL
'Oh, Lyn, you can't be serious.' Bridget Cooper flicked her auburn hair back in a careless gesture that distracted every man within a two-table radius, and glanced at me reprovingly. 'You look like death warmed up, you know. The last thing you should do is take another transatlantic flight.' With anybody else, I might have argued that I'd slept straight through the New York flight two days ago, and that my next business flight wouldn't be until the twenty-first of January. _. but with Bridget, I knew, I'd be wasting my breath. Besides, I'd known her long enough to realise this was simply preamble. Bridget never worried about anybody's health except her own. And she never rang me at nine on a Monday, suggesting we meet and have lunch, unless she had a reason. Bridget was a one-off, an exceptionally talented writer with a wild imagination that made her books for children instant classics, and a wild nature that drove the poor directors of my literary agency to distraction. In the four years since I'd signed her as a client, Bridger's books had earned a fortune for the Simon Holland Agency, but her unpredictability had caused much tearing of hair among my colleagues. My favourite of her escapades - the day she'd kicked the BBC presenter - was now a Simon Holland legend. And I, who had survived four years, and one week's holiday in France with Bridget, had risen to the status of a martyr. ~
-----How does Lyn feel when Bridget advises her against travelling? A B C D 2 touched by her friend's concern offended by her friend's reasons surprised at her friend's insistence suspicious of her friend's motives
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What do we learn about Lyn's colleagues? A B C D They are unwilling to work with Bridget. They find it hard to take