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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

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Question 76

Books in the phone box

Text 1: Take one, leave one, by Rachel Hollins

An original contemporary article.

When the payphone was taken out of our village’s red telephone box, the parish council bought the empty kiosk for a pound and a few of us turned it into a book exchange. Shelves went up where the phone had been, and a sign invited people to take a book and leave one. By February we had two problems. Condensation ran down the glass on cold mornings, and paperbacks left near the panes had swollen and spotted with mould. The shelves had also filled with out-of-date road atlases and a full set of encyclopaedias that nobody wanted, leaving no room for anything new. A volunteer now fits a tub of moisture crystals each month and quietly takes the atlases to the recycling centre.

Explain two problems the book exchange faced by February.

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2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Language
  3. /2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills

160 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE English Language 2.3 Section A: Reading information and ideas – skills, covering 2.3.1 Identify and interpret key ideas, 2.3.2 Comment on writers’ language choices, 2.3.4 Summarise and synthesise across texts, 2.3.7 Evaluate usefulness, bias and misuse of evidence, 2.3.8 Use context to inform reading, and 2.3.9 Explore connections across texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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