CPE :: Lesson 29

LOS CURSOS DE INGLES GRATIS PREFERIDOS POR LOS HISPANOHABLANTES

 

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Comprehension

ACTIVITY 138: You are going to read a magazine review about a new book. After reading, choose the best alternative TRUE or FALSE to answer questions 1-10 according to what you read. Then check the correct answers.

A strong and willing girl
by Dorothy Edwards

These stories of a young servant's experiences in the late 1880s and early 1890s are set in Teddington and Richmond, along the Thames on the western fringes of London.
As the eldest of a fair-sized family ('always a baby to come and one to be washed for') she went to school only 'off and on' and soon became her mother's mainstay.
She couldn't abide dirt, couldn't our mam, so what she couldn't reach or stoop to, she gave over to me. She'd tell me the right way to do it, and stand over me to see I'd learned, so that by the time I was eight I could scrub a board floor.

 

GoodMark $15.95
ISBN 0 416 88630 2

The stories will be interesting for adults and for children. They are vivid and often funny (though one is moving); and they depict a wide range of social arrangements and relationships in a very firm historical and local context. In the admirable illustrations (of everyday objects: flat-irons and carpet-beaters, pumps, lamps and knife-cleaners
as well as incidents from the text) Robert Micklewright's plain but sensitive touch is just right. Unfortunately the jacket illustration is by someone else, evoking crudely and quite inappropriately a popular TV programme genre instead of the lively specifity of the book.

Anna Davin, reviewer.

 

QUESTIONS 1-10

1.

"A Strong and Willing Girl" is a collection of short stories, not a novel.

2.

The review of the book is written by Dorothy Edwards.

3.

The setting of the book is twentieth-century England.

4.

The book is only of interest to children.

5.

The illustrator of the book is Robert Micklewright.

6.

The reviewer of the book thinks that the illustrations spoil the book.

7.

The heroine of the book is the youngest of a well-planned family.

8.

Richmond is located in Central London.

9.

The book contains a variety of realistic stories, some amusing and some sad.

10.

The book only describes the life of working class people.
 

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