The paper roll
The captioner sat at a small desk beside the lecture hall. Her eyes stayed on the speaker, although her hands moved across a keyboard unlike mine. A paper roll curled into a basket at her feet. On the screen above us, the words appeared almost as soon as they were spoken. The machine's clicks were faint and regular. When a joke made everyone laugh, she kept working; the people reading the screen deserved to know what had caused it.
From the passage, select two words or phrases that describe the sound made by the machine.
232 exam-style questions on Edexcel A IGCSE English Language 1.2 Section A: Non-fiction Texts, covering 1.2.1 Focus of Section A, 1.2.2 Reading challenging non-fiction in preparation for the unseen text, 1.2.3 Reading substantial and extended texts, 1.2.4 Skills of interpretation and analysis, 1.2.5 Range of non-fiction forms, 1.2.6 Literary non-fiction text types, 1.2.7 Transient texts excluded from assessment, 1.2.8 The anthology as a supporting resource, and 1.2.9 Digital location of texts. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.