whooaa that was tricky as!! I was stuck between A and D, wat are the medentry questions like?
I think they're harder than the real thing.
Section 2 sample:
Questions 1 to 3My father told me the story of how his brother died. The boy was about eight at the time and he died of what was probably a ruptured appendix. He had suffered excruciating stomach pains that left him doubled over in agony and my grandfather, moved by his son's despair, sat with him, stroking him, till it was no longer tolerable to accept the judgement of his own helplessness. He drew the child up around his shoulders like a rolled swag, his arms grasping the burden of the child's weight and pain into his bowed back. Then he trudged the cobbled lanes and stairs of the village, sobbing into the crook of his neck, till he died. He sat by the path with the child cradled in his lap, just holding him. The only intrusion was the sound of distant bleating of goats. But no human sound.
No pain or hardship, however, contaminated my family's idealised view of the island and village life. They saw themselves as people of property and substance, owners of a patchwork quilt of pocket-handkerchief sized plots - you couldn't call them fields - subdivided and subdivided, generation after generation. The truth was that their lives were built up with shards of poverty like the ordered stone walls of the island. They were peasants locked to the land, though it was mainly the women who made an existence in the olive groves and plots. The men fished at sea or exported their labour.
1
The man whose son was dying
Choose one answer.
A. Attempted to seek medical help
B. Sat with him until he died
C. Tried to find peace in what was happening
D. Comforted the boy as best he could
2
As he tells the story of the boy's death, the writer
Choose one answer.
A. Shows why life on the island was actually unendurable
B. Provides an insight into the boy's pain as he died
C. Shifts emphasis from the boy's feelings to the father's grief
D. Shows how the father was isolated and angry
3
As an adult, the writer came to realise that life on the island consisted more of
Choose one answer.
A. Despair than delight
B. Poverty than prosperity
C. Endurance than enjoyment
D. Hardship then happiness
Answers:
D,C,B
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