Changing the field route
By sunrise I had numbered the sample bags to match the order of the soil pits and copied every grid reference into a waterproof notebook. Halfway across the moor, a flooded channel cut off the next site. I did not try to preserve the route merely because it was written down: I circled the accessible pits, reversed the sequence and recalculated how long the return walk would take. Preparation, I realised, was not loyalty to a plan; it was what made changing the plan possible.
From the passage, select one word or phrase that shows the writer's careful preparation and one word or phrase that shows the writer's reasoned response to the unexpected obstacle.
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.