Read this passage and then answer the multiple-choice questions beiow. Use a pencil to underline the phrases in the passage where you found the answers. Yet actual journeys aren't like stories at all. At the time, they seem to be mere strings of haps I and mishaps, without point or pattern. You get stuck. You meet someone you like. You get lost § You get lonely. You get interested in architecture. You get diarrhoea. You get invited to a party. You | get frightened. A stretch of country takes you by surprise. You get homesick. You are, by rapid | turns, engrossed, bored, alert, dull, happy, miserable, well and ill. Every day tends to seem out of 1 5 connection with every other day, until living from moment to moment turns into a hábit and | travelling itself into a form of ordinary life. You canY remember when it wasn't like this. There is a 1 great deal of liberating pleasure to be had from being abroad in the world, continuously on the § move, like a lost balloon, but a journey, at least as long as it is actually taking place, is the exact I opposite of a story. It is a shapeless, unsifted, endlessly shifting accumulation of experience. I 10 For travelling is inherently a plotless, disordered, chaotic affair, where writing insists on ; connection, order, plot, signification. It may take a year or more to see that there was any point to \ the thing at all, and more years still to make it yield an articulate story. Memory, not the notebook, holds the key. I try to keep a notebook when I'm on the move (largely because writing in it makes one feel that one's at work, despite all appearances to the contrary) but hardly ever find anything [ is in the notebook that's worth using later. Trifles are described at inordinate length. Events that now seem important aren't mentioned at all, The keeper of the notebook sounds stupid and confused. He grouses too much about tides and timetables, and all the forgettable mechanics of the journey; he fails to notice what I remember observing in near-photographic detail. When I'm writing the book I get precious little help from him ... the odd proper name, a date, an ascertainable fact \ 20 here and there, but little or nothing in the way of intelligent comprehension of what he was doing at the time. Why was he so blind? Because he was travelling and I am writing, and the two activities are chalk and cheese. Memory/though, is always telling stories to itself, filing experience in narrative form. It feeds irrelevandes to the shredder, enlarges on crucial details, makes links and patterns, finds symbols, | 25 constructs plots. In memory, the journey takes shape and grows; in the notebook it merely | languishes, with the notes themselves like a pile of cigarette butts confronted the morning after a [ party. In 1982,1 took six months to sail slowly round the British Isles, stopping at every place I'd known as a child and adolescent. A year later, I was still trying to begin the book that was based | 30 on the journey. I had 30,000 words, but they seemed forced and wrong. There was writing, but as I 1 How is a real journey different from a story? A It has no order B It is more frightening C It is an interesting experience 2 Why doesn't Jonathan Raban write his books straight after his return from a journey? A He needs to read his notebook B He never forgets the details C His memory needs time 3 How does he look upon the person who wrote the notebook? A As a younger version of himself B As an old friend C As a stranger 4 Why does he always make notes during a journey? A To help him remember B To make him feel he's working C To fill the spare moments 5 Why is memory more productive than the notes he made? A Memory creates order B Notes omit important details C His notes aren't legible 6 What useful information can he get from his notebook when he's writing the book? A None at all B A few names and dates C The route he took 7 How did the writer travel round Britain? 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A B C D A A A C A A A A A B C D A C A C in the class of Mrs Stoppard in Mrs Stoppards' class in the Mrs Stoppard's class in Mrs Stoppard 's class C does C while is B has as B although a more early train an earlier train has B is am B would be is B there is said B told what are people interested in in what are people interested what people are interested in what are interests ask were asking starts will start D has been D and B an earliest train D a most early train C can C will be C it is C spoke D does D was D takes place D talked B asked D had asked B would start D would have started Back to school on the 7.20 The train arrived (a)_ Charing Cross Station iate, by about ten minutes. Or, as they would say in the last carriage, dix minutes. It was the 7.20 from Tunbridge Wells, where, (b)_Tuesdays and Thursdays, a group of commuters gets together (c)_French, (d)_teacher is Mrs Marie Stoppard. She heard about the commuter study groups set up by Learn and Ride, and offered to help. She is French, and works (e)_Dupont, the international company, and has been running courses in French (f) __ 1984. The first merriber of the group to get on the train is Colin Dearlove, (g)_lives in Tunbridge Wells. He puts a sticker on the window and cards on the table in the last carriage, asking other commuters to leave the seats free for the study group. 'People (h)_usually very understanding,' he said. Colin has studied (i)_subjects on the train - German, history of art, and geology. He has been learning French (j)_for a year. So (k)_Mrs Alice Lester, who works in the City. She has a chance to try out what she has learnt, (1)_ she has relatives in France. She normally catches (m)_, but twice a week goes in later to join the class. Another member of the group, Bill Cunningham, (n)_the same. 'I like to use my time creatively,' he said. 'If I didn't do this, I (o)_bored.' Elsewhere on the train another group had been learning bridge, and on Wednesdays (p)_a world affairs class. These have been set up by Mrs Angela Ridley of Learn and Ride, with the approval of British Rait. 'Naturally I asked their permission, and they (q)_they didn't mind at all.' She hands out questionnaires asking (r)_, and who might be prepared to offer their services as a teacher, and forms groups on the basis of the replies. She is hoping to have a class on business management. 'If enough people (s)_for it, the class (t)_on the 7.33 next month.' 3 2 In the following letter there are mistakes of grammar and spelling, and some words are missing. Find the mistakes and correct them. Hotel Plaza West 52nd Street New York 28 March 1986 Dear Malcolm At last I am arrived here in New York! I'm very exciting - everything is so big, and people moves so fast. I'm sure I'll enjoy very much. Actually I stay in a hotel. It's quite, so I sleep all right, not too expensive, and near to centre, wich is very convenient. I think to look for a small flat for to rent. 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