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Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation

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  1. What does the writer suggest by the line 'Nobody chooses the 11.40 night bus; it chooses you'?
  2. Which technique is used in 'It crawls out of the depot like a tired animal'?
  3. What does 'a kind of democracy' suggest about the people on the bus?
  4. 'Nobody is in a hurry, because the bus itself refuses to be.' What is the effect of this sentence?
  5. The writer calls the bus 'a lit room moving through a dark city'. How does this image support the idea of the bus as a refuge?
  6. How does the final sentence of the passage develop the writer's ideas?
  7. What impression of the fox is created by 'a thief of bin bags and a screamer in the night'?
  8. What is the function of the colon in 'urban foxes are neither villains nor victims: they are opportunists'?
  9. What is the writer's main argument in the passage?
  10. Why might the writer have chosen the verb 'tidies' in 'the animal that tidies it'?
  11. In the final sentence, 'we leave the door open' is best described as:
  12. What is the purpose of the phrase 'after all' in the final sentence?
  13. What does the image 'a mouth with missing teeth' suggest about the main street?
  14. What does the word 'stubborn' suggest about the butcher?
  15. What is the writer's attitude to the claim that closed shops are 'progress'?
  16. Why does the writer use the short sentence 'But a street is more than a place to buy things'?
  17. How does the list in 'where a child first sees a neighbour's face turn kind, where news is exchanged over counters, where a town learns what it is' help the argument?
  18. What is the effect of the dash and the final phrase 'no delivery van can bring that back to our doors'?

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