The toll collector’s shelter
An original account written in a nineteenth-century voice; a period simulation, not an archival document.
The new shelter stood a little way from the toll gate. It kept the collector dry, but he could not see the road from its doorway because a wall stood between them. To judge when a cart arrived he had to step into the rain or listen for its wheels. The builder offered to enlarge the doorway. The collector instead requested a window in the side facing the gate: a wider opening in the wrong direction would not give him the view he needed.
Explain why enlarging the doorway would not solve the collector’s problem.
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.