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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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