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Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation

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  1. Why does the writer say the grandfather kept going to the harbour after his hands failed?
  2. What does the phrase 'the boat was not a vehicle but a kind of anchor' suggest?
  3. How do the younger men feel about the grandfather?
  4. What is the effect of the final sentence of the passage?
  5. Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
  6. Which technique is used in 'the sea had always taken away from him in small pieces'?
  7. According to the passage, what has changed about reading?
  8. What do teachers report, according to the passage?
  9. What point do 'defenders of the new habits' make?
  10. What is the writer's main concern in the last sentence?
  11. What is the function of the word 'Yet' at the start of the fourth sentence?
  12. How would you describe the writer's overall approach to the issue?
  13. What does the word 'annexed' suggest about the way screens have taken over our empty minutes?
  14. What is the effect of the dashes in 'on the bus, in the queue, in the dull fortnight of the summer holidays'?
  15. 'Boredom was never merely a gap to be filled; it was the soil in which attention grew.' How does the writer's choice of imagery develop the argument?
  16. Evaluate how effective the final sentence is as a conclusion to the passage.
  17. What does the sentence 'for years we had not listened, because the harbour had always been there' suggest about the community?
  18. What is suggested by 'the water going where it pleased'?
  19. What is the tone of the final sentence?
  20. How does the writer use structure in the first paragraph to create meaning?

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