Read the extract and answer the questions.
At last the horses began to go more slowly, as if they were climbing up-hill, and presently there seemed to be no more hedges and no more trees. She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side. She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jolt.
“Eh! We’re on the moor now sure enough,” said Mrs. Medlock.
15. What can Mary see when she first looks out of the carriage?
18. How is the moor described in the passage?
21. What kind of mood does the author create during the wind-swept, dark stretch of the journey?
17. How do you think Mary feels as they travel?
The carriage lamps shed a yellow light on a rough-looking road which seemed to be cut through bushes and low-growing things which ended in the great expanse of dark apparently spread out before and around them. A wind was rising and making a singular, wild, low, rushing sound.
“It’s—it’s not the sea, is it?” said Mary, looking round at her companion.
“No, not it,” answered Mrs. Medlock. “Nor it isn’t fields nor mountains, it’s just miles and miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on but heather and gorse and broom, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep.”
19. Why does Mary ask “it’s not the sea, is it?”
23. What is meant by the word “presently”?
24. Which of these words is closest in meaning to “expanse”?
25. Which of these words is closest in meaning to “singular”?
“I feel as if it might be the sea, if there were water on it,” said Mary. “It sounds like the sea just now.”
“That’s the wind blowing through the bushes,” Mrs. Medlock said. “It’s a wild, dreary enough place to my mind, though there’s plenty that likes it—particularly when the heather’s in bloom.”
16. Which of these things is not mentioned by Mrs Medlock?
20. Which of these best describes the journey?
26. “the carriage passed over a little bridge beneath which water rushed.” Which of the words in this sentence is a preposition?
On and on they drove through the darkness, and though the rain stopped, the wind rushed by and whistled and made strange sounds. The road went up and down, and several times the carriage passed over a little bridge beneath which water rushed very fast with a great deal of noise. Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.
“I don’t like it,” she said to herself. “I don’t like it,” and she pinched her thin lips more tightly together.
22. What kind of text is this?
27. “the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean.” What technique is used here?
28. What type of words are these? ponies, sheep, mountains, bushes