After the fountain was drained
When the water began to sink, I stood beside the stone basin with a single tray, expecting only the leaves we had seen from above. The first sweep of the floor produced a button, two keys and a tiny brass wheel. Silt still covered the deeper channel, and each pass of the brush uncovered another object. Before lunch, I had borrowed six more trays and stopped trying to guess what the next patch would contain.
Select one word or phrase which conveys the writer's limited expectations before the search and one which reveals how greatly the search exceeded them.
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.