A forgotten photograph · B2. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop. At first I recognised only the gate: two pale posts and a latch that had always caught on the sleeve of my coat. Then I saw my brother, small and unsmiling, standing beside our mother. Someone had cut the edge of the picture, removing most of the person whose hand rested on his shoulder.
I was certain I knew the day. It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted. I had repeated that version of events so often that it felt less like a memory than a fact entered in a family record.
I sent him a photograph of the photograph. His reply arrived while I was still packing. “You have the wrong day,” he wrote. “That was before the school play. I was frightened of forgetting my lines.” He remembered the borrowed jacket, which itched, and our mother telling him not to pull at the collar. The departing house and the silent protest belonged to another afternoon.
For a moment, I wanted to defend my account. The expression on his face seemed to support it. Then I noticed the paper flower pinned to his jacket, a detail I had previously treated as an unimportant blur. It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably than a sudden announcement about moving.
I asked about the missing person at the edge. He thought it was our aunt, though he was not certain. I had assumed it was me. Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut. We agreed to ask our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums, rather than invent a reason that happened to suit us.
That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.
The book continued into the donation box. The photograph stayed. It had become more interesting after it stopped illustrating the story I thought I knew. I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.
Trace the word back to the person, object or idea it represents in this sentence. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Use the reason actually given; a plausible reason from outside the text is not enough.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.
Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.
Read the original English material and answer with evidence. The level is an editorial guide, not a certified result.
The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop. At first I recognised only the gate: two pale posts and a latch that had always caught on the sleeve of my coat. Then I saw my brother, small and unsmiling, standing beside our mother. Someone had cut the edge of the picture, removing most of the person whose hand rested on his shoulder.
I was certain I knew the day. It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted. I had repeated that version of events so often that it felt less like a memory than a fact entered in a family record.
I sent him a photograph of the photograph. His reply arrived while I was still packing. “You have the wrong day,” he wrote. “That was before the school play. I was frightened of forgetting my lines.” He remembered the borrowed jacket, which itched, and our mother telling him not to pull at the collar. The departing house and the silent protest belonged to another afternoon.
For a moment, I wanted to defend my account. The expression on his face seemed to support it. Then I noticed the paper flower pinned to his jacket, a detail I had previously treated as an unimportant blur. It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably than a sudden announcement about moving.
I asked about the missing person at the edge. He thought it was our aunt, though he was not certain. I had assumed it was me. Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut. We agreed to ask our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums, rather than invent a reason that happened to suit us.
That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.
The book continued into the donation box. The photograph stayed. It had become more interesting after it stopped illustrating the story I thought I knew. I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.
A forgotten photograph
Trace the word back to the person, object or idea it represents in this sentence. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Use the reason actually given; a plausible reason from outside the text is not enough.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Keep your first attempt, check the evidence and try another question. A follow-up on the same material does not prove transfer to a new text.
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Trace the word back to the person, object or idea it represents in this sentence. Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Use the reason actually given; a plausible reason from outside the text is not enough.
In “Mia lost her key”, her refers to Mia.Keep the requested person, time, place or amount attached to the correct event. Combine the actual clues without adding an unsupported fact.
The doors open at eight. The class starts at nine.Opening an answer records help for that question.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “It fell from a book being packed for donation.”. Evidence: “The photograph fell from a book I was packing for the charity shop.”. Compare the alternative “It arrived with the brother’s account in a new envelope.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision. Compare the alternative “The narrator found it among albums already borrowed from the cousin.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “The gate.”. Evidence: “At first I recognised only the gate”. Compare the alternative “The paper flower.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision. Compare the alternative “The identity of the person whose hand was visible.”. This adds a specific detail that the account does not provide; plausibility is not textual evidence.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “A protest about leaving the house.”. Evidence: “It was the afternoon we had been told that we were leaving the house, and my brother had refused to speak because nobody had asked what he wanted.”. Compare the alternative “Anger about an itchy borrowed jacket.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision. Compare the alternative “Reluctance to have a photograph taken before donating the book.”. This adds a specific detail that the account does not provide; plausibility is not textual evidence.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “Repetition had made the narrator’s version feel unquestionable.”. Evidence: “I had repeated that version of events so often”. Compare the alternative “The narrator had avoided repeating the family story before this discovery.”. This reverses the relationship stated in the passage. Compare the alternative “An independently checked family record had confirmed the date.”. This claims more certainty or wider applicability than this evidence allows.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “A school play.”. Evidence: “That was before the school play.”. Compare the alternative “An announcement that they were moving.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision. Compare the alternative “The day the book was first selected for donation.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “It fits the brother’s account but does not prove all of it.”. Evidence: “It did not prove every part of his story, but it fitted a school performance more comfortably”. Compare the alternative “It makes the brother’s recollection a complete and independently verified record.”. This claims more certainty or wider applicability than this evidence allows. Compare the alternative “It is no more compatible with the play than with the moving announcement.”. This reverses the relationship stated in the passage.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “A paper flower pinned to the jacket.”. Evidence: “the paper flower pinned to his jacket”. Compare the alternative “The gate latch that had caught on the narrator’s coat.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision. Compare the alternative “The visible hand resting on the brother’s shoulder.”. The hand is visible in the photograph, but the narrative does not make it the detail that prompts reconsideration; that role belongs to the flower. Check the source wording “whose hand rested on his shoulder.” against the question and the claim “The visible hand resting on the brother’s shoulder.”.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “Fear of forgetting his lines.”. Evidence: “I was frightened of forgetting my lines.”. Compare the alternative “Embarrassment that the photograph had been cut.”. This adds a specific detail that the account does not provide; plausibility is not textual evidence. Compare the alternative “Certainty that moving house was unfair.”. This confuses two stages of the account: the initial situation and a later check or decision.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “Why the photograph was cut.”. Evidence: “Neither of us could explain why the photograph had been cut.”. Compare the alternative “Whether the flower was visible on the jacket.”. This detail is already established in the story; the question asks which matter remains unresolved. Compare the alternative “Whether the brother connected the image with a school play.”. This detail is already established in the story; the question asks which matter remains unresolved.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “The cousin may have further evidence in the aunt’s albums.”. Evidence: “our cousin, who still had some of our aunt’s albums”. Compare the alternative “They hope the cousin will choose the more comforting account without more evidence.”. This reverses the relationship stated in the passage. Compare the alternative “They believe the cousin has already identified the missing person with certainty.”. This claims more certainty or wider applicability than this evidence allows.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “By writing both down and qualifying the certainty of each.”. Evidence: “That evening, I put the photograph in a new envelope and wrote both accounts on a sheet of paper. I marked mine as a memory I was now questioning, not one I had proved false in every detail. My brother’s recollection deserved attention without being promoted automatically into a complete record.”. Compare the alternative “By marking the narrator’s whole account as conclusively false.”. This extends a qualified finding into a claim without exceptions. Compare the alternative “By presenting the brother’s version as a complete official record.”. This claims more certainty or wider applicability than this evidence allows.
A forgotten photograph
The supported answer is “The narrator accepts uncertainty as a reason for further attention.”. Evidence: “I no longer looked at my brother’s expression and saw a single obvious explanation. The unfamiliar space around it was not an empty place to fill quickly, but a reason to look again.”. Compare the alternative “The narrator treats the competing accounts as proof that photographs cannot offer evidence.”. This extends a qualified finding into a claim without exceptions. Compare the alternative “The narrator accepts the brother’s account as the only explanation worth considering.”. This reverses the relationship stated in the passage.