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

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C: She had ‘stacks of cassette recordings of herself reading the 
news in a cool, assured voice’ and later she became a presenter 
on CNN television, so at this time she was practising for the 
career that she later had.
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D: Lomba didn’t know the answer and she gave him not only the 
answer but also ‘a lecture’ about the capital of Iceland (more 
information he didn’t know). 
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A: He replied ‘in the negative’ (that he didn’t know the answer) and 
her response to this was to jump up ‘gleefully’ (in a very happy 
way) and get her sketchbook – she was glad that he didn’t know 
the answer because she wanted to show him what the jacket 
looked like. 
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D: At first he thought that the father’s ‘taciturnity’ (he was quiet, 
he didn’t speak much) was because of ‘moodiness’ (that he was 
often in a bad mood, often feeling angry) but then he realised 
that he had ‘laughter kinks behind the eyes’ (his eyes showed 
that he was amused), and that his lips were often moving, ready 
to open because he wanted to smile or laugh. 
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B: When she called him ‘dear’ and ‘honey’, he thought she was 
talking to someone else, one of her children, not to him, because 
he wasn’t used to someone using those words for him. 
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A: She told Lomba that she wanted him to take care of Bola, 
because Bola was ‘impulsive’ and ‘headstrong’ (he acted 
without thinking, he did unwise things without considering 
the consequences) and Lomba was ‘quiet’ and ‘level-headed’ 
(sensible). In this way she wanted to follow the tradition of 
finding a friend of ‘opposite temperament’ for her child because 
that friend would be a good influence on the child. 
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C: The whole extract is about what Lomba thought of each family 
member and the powerful impressions each member made on 
him; each person is described in turn and the effect each one 
had on him is described. They are not compared, he doesn’t 
say he developed close relationships with each one quickly and 
the extract is mainly about Lomba interacting with each family 
member, not about how they interacted with each other.