The half-filled drawer
The room containing the seed drawers was cool, and the air felt dry. Each packet carried a collection date and a place name. The assistant showed me how the records connected a small envelope with a particular patch of ground. Without those details, one packet could easily resemble another. I had imagined the collection as a store of future plants. It was also a store of information that could not be recovered simply by opening the paper.
From the passage, select two words or phrases that describe conditions inside the collection room.
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.