12th Eng Ch-8 Going Places ( Extracts Fully Solved) Flamingo
Ch-8 Going Places by AR Barton Extract 1 - He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out of school, an apprentice mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city. He was almost grown up now, and she suspected areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, voluntarily. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground. (a) Whom does 'he' stand for in the first line? (b) What work is Geoff into? (i) Workshop (ii) Apprentice mechanic (iii) Motorcycle shop (iv) None of the above (c) Where was Geoff's workplace? (i) In the next lane from his house (ii) 4 kms away (iii) In the far side of the city (iv) Near Sophie's school (d) Give an antonym of 'spread. (e) 'Voluntarily' means. (f) Who is the author? Extract 2 And she was impatient. She was conscious of a vast world...