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A emphasize that Rachel’s aunt makes strong demands of her family. B provide context for the disagreement between Rachel’s aunt and her father. C illustrate why Rachel generally disregards her father’s advice. D reveal that Rachel may bene?t from building a relationship with her aunt.

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Exercise 3

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This passage is excerpted from Katherine Mans?eld, The Voyage. Originally published in 1921.

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The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water ruf?ed under Fenella's hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on. It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the wool sheds, the cattle trucks, the cranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out of solid darkness. Here and there on a rounded wood-pile, that was like the stalk of a huge black mushroom, there hung a lantern, but it seemed afraid to unfurl its timid, quivering light in all that blackness; it burned softly, as if for itself.

Fenella's father pushed on with quick, nervous strides.

Beside him her grandma bustled along in her crackling black ulster; they went so fast that she had now and again to give an undigni?ed little skip to keep up with them. As well as her luggage strapped into a neat sausage, Fenella carried clasped to her her grandma's umbrella, and the handle, which was a swan's head, kept giving her shoulder a sharp little peck as if it too wanted her to hurry. Men, their caps pulled down, their collars turned up, swung by; a few women all muf?ed scurried along; and one tiny boy, only his little black arms and legs showing out of a white woolly shawl, was jerked along angrily between his father and mother; he looked like a baby ?y that had fallen into the cream.

Then suddenly, so suddenly that Fenella and her grandma both leapt, there sounded from behind the largest wool shed, that had a trail of smoke hanging over it, \\they came in sight of the Picton boat. Lying beside the dark wharf, all strung, all beaded with round golden lights, the Picton boat looked as if she was more ready to sail among stars than out into the cold sea. People pressed along the gangway. First went her grandma, then her father, then

Fenella. They stepped out of the way of the hurrying people, and standing under a little iron stairway that led to the upper deck they began to say goodbye.

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Grandma felt for them inside her glove and showed him the tips.

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He sounded stern, but Fenella, eagerly watching him, saw that he looked tired and sad.

\heads, and a voice like a cry shouted, \gangway?\

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\say. And her grandma, very agitated, answered, \will, dear. Go now. You'll be left. Go now, Frank. Go now.\\surprise Fenella saw her father take off his hat. He clasped grandma in his arms and pressed her to him. \mother!\

And grandma put her hand, with the black thread glove that was worn through on her ring ?nger, against his cheek, and she sobbed, \

This was so awful that Fenella quickly turned her back on them, swallowed once, twice, and frowned terribly at a little green star on a mast head. But she had to turn round again; her father was going.

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moustache brushed her cheek. But Fenella caught hold of the lapels of his coat.

\He wouldn't look at her. He shook her off gently, and gently said, \pressed something into her palm. \you should need it.\

A shilling! She must be going away for ever! \Fenella. But he was gone. He was the last off the ship. The sailors put their shoulders to the gangway. A huge coil of dark rope went ?ying through the air and fell \wharf. A bell rang; a whistle shrilled. Silently the dark wharf began to slip, to slide, to edge away from them. Now there was a rush of water between. Fenella strained to see with all her might. Was that father turning round? Or waving? Or standing alone? Or walking off by himself? The strip of water grew broader, darker. Now the Picton boat began to swing round steady, pointing out to sea. It was no good looking any longer.

QUESTION 1 OF 11

Which choice best summarizes the passage?????????

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A A girl and her family brace for a long voyage overseas and prepare for a new chapter in their lives. B A girl and her family exchange goodbyes and experience an emotional departure. C A girl and her family adjust to a new living situation and resign themselves to an unclear future. D A girl and her family re?ect on their changing relationships and settle into their new roles.

QUESTION 2 OF 11

Over the course of the passage, the main focus shifts from??????

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A a ship’s nighttime departure to the devastating emotional impact of a family’s separation. B a family’s protracted farewell to a description of a ship’s sailors preparing to depart. C a description of a boat dock to an exchange of money between family members.

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D a vivid illustration of a setting to the sense of resignation one character experiences.

You'll be left. Go now, Frank. Go now.\??

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C lines 56–57 (“It’s . . . hat”)(“\another three minutes.\father take off his hat.”) D lines 60–62 (“And . . .son”)(“And grandma put her hand, with the black thread glove that was worn through on her ring ?nger, against his cheek, and she sobbed, \you, my own brave son!\QUESTION 3 OF 11

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