A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

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G: ‘I’ll never forget the meal the night before the final ascent.’
Test 3, Paper 1, Reading 
(Page 63)
Part 1
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C: He says that ‘as soon as I get home’, he’s going to go into the 
woods and start tracking animals on his own because the course 
was ‘inspirational’.
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B: A rabbit ‘pops up’ and ‘scampers off’ and then they look at the 
‘fresh print’ it has left.
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D: Malcolm tells the writer that students ‘can get despondent if 
they think they’re falling behind’ – feel very unhappy if they 
believe they are making slower progress than the others.
4 
A: Malcolm says the students are ‘surprised at how well they do 
and how quickly’; Darren Moody builds his wall quickly and very 
well but ‘everyone else is close behind’ – all the others do the 
work almost as quickly as him.
5 
A: He describes a ‘tiny maze of corridors’ that are very crowded, 
says it’s very hot and humid and describes the smell as 
‘otherworldly’ (in this context, this means ‘very bad’ because
it comes from a lot of people’s perspiration).
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B: He has seen the way other people dance and is not impressed 
(they are ‘rather average’); he is ‘not too worried’ therefore 
because he doesn’t think it will be difficult for him (‘how hard 
could it be?’ = it won’t be very hard), and he thinks it won’t be 
as challenging as kickboxing or a triathlon.
Part 2: The ‘Britain in Bloom’ competition
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D: link between ‘do a lot‘ and ‘too much’. D contains an example 
of a place that did something to please him that in fact didn’t 
please him.
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G: link between what the competition was like ‘In the early days’ 
and what it is like now (it’s now ‘much more sophisticated’ and 
‘much more competitive’ than it was when it started).