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

3 
C: The plane ‘jogs on the spot’ (bounces up and down without 
moving forwards) first of all before it starts to move across
the bay.
4 
A: It no longer delivers mail, another company has the contract 
to do that; it delivers ‘people instead of parcels’ – it takes 
passengers, not mail. 
5 
A: She is ‘having another go’; she is doing ‘precisely the same 
challenge’ that she did once before; she is ‘revisiting an attempt 
that almost killed her last time’; she is ‘about to try to finish the 
job’ that she did not finish the first time.
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B: ‘In some ways you could say it’s insecurity. I have always wanted 
to excel at something.’ (A possible reason for doing it is that she 
has feelings of insecurity and wants to achieve something big so 
that she won’t continue to lack confidence in herself.)
Part 2: The birth of 
Coronation Street
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F: link between ‘At that stage’ at the beginning of F and when the 
writer was 21, mentioned at the beginning of the article; link 
between the work described in F and the work described before 
the gap.
8 
D: link between ‘the genius who created the show’ before the gap 
and ‘that person’ in D.
9 
A: link between ‘this’ at the beginning of A and the idea that 
the creation of the programme would be a good subject for a 
television drama, mentioned before the gap – the writer wasn’t 
the only person who thought this was a good idea because 
someone commissioned him to write the drama.
10 
G: link between the fact that there had never been a show about 
ordinary people and their lives and the fact that there had also 
never been an original show featuring regional actors – link 
between two things that had not happened before but which 
were both true of 
Coronation Street
; link between the question 
‘so what was the point?’ in G and ‘It was that …’ after the gap.
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E: link between the statement that ‘It’ (the idea of 
Coronation 
Street
) should have ended there after the gap and the fact that 
the idea was rejected, as described in E; link between ‘written 
and discarded’ after the gap and the events described in E – 
Warren writing the script and the TV management rejecting it 
firmly (‘in no uncertain terms’).
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C: link between ‘that inauspicious beginning’ in C and the problems 
just before the first episode was broadcast, described before the 
gap; ‘inauspicious’ = suggesting that something will go badly 
and not be successful; link between ‘that event’ in C and the 
broadcasting of the first episode, described before the gap.