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Choose the correct answer to the following questions.
| 1 What was Jeffery Archer’s reaction to the failure of his play? | A He was thoroughly put out. B He regretted the wastes effort. C He was sorry about the amount of money he lost. В He was unaffected by it. |
| 2. What is Jeffrey Archer’s main interest in life? | A writing B politics C business D theatre |
| 3. Why did he write his first novel? | A To show how good a story-teller he could be. B to have some work to do. C to make money. D to prove he was successful at something |
| 4. When he’s writing, Jeffrey Archer | A has no difficulty thinking up a story. B finds the actual writing easy. C maps out an overall plan of the book first D has a fixed routine |
| 5. Apart from writing novels what else does Jeffrey Archer do? | A He stands for election to Parliament. B He makes a lot of speeches. C He does other kinds of writing. D He takes long holidays. |
| 6. What is attitude to his publishers/ | A He regards them as friends. B. He respects their work. C He considers them to be the best in their profession. D He feels he has to flatter them. |
| 7. What is his relationship with his editor like? | A They continually argue. B. They disagree about priorities. C The editor gives advice about the storyline. D. The editor stresses the importance of the characters. |
Comment on the devices extracted from the passage.
Paragraph 1
1. expensive failure
2.not noticeably down and a considerable distance from out
3.with Kane and Abel having sold… and the paperback continuing to rip…out of the bookshops.
Paragraph 2:
1.literature is not his first love….
2. promising political career collapsed….
3. which could have crushed most men….
4. for good
5.cold-blooded intention
Paragraph 3:
1….who say that , and who aren’t in the profession….
2. if it were true, - and if it were that easy….
3. I wanted the book to be published, to be read
4….was L 3000, and they published 3000 copies
Paragraph 4:
…as an author he has never looked back…
Paragraph 5:
…never know what’s on the next line, what’s in the next paragraph, what’s on the next page….
Paragraph 6
1…I like that session. It’s the only original session
2.then I correct from three till five, correct from six till eight….
Paragraph 7
1. Still offered several safe Parliamentary seats a year….
2. …innumerable speaking engagements .....
3. … nobody wants you…..
… there are ten weeks a year when nobody wants you to speak…
Paragraph 8
1….to an extent which must warm their hearts….
Paragraph 9
1….he’s tough. He drives me and drives. He never writes a word…. He’s never satisfied. He doesn’t have a lot to do with plot…
2. He’ll get me to build characters – build, build the whole time…
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