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    The passage describes a young boy's experience riding in a small, ornate car on an amusement park ride up a tall tower. The car was meant to hold six people but the boy was the only passenger. As the car jerkily began climbing the noisy machinery, the boy felt too big for the seats and could only sit on the edge holding tightly to the rail. He watched as they passed large, wobbling wheels and other oily machinery making a dreadful noise. The higher the car climbed, the more the boy's spirits sank as he feared looking over the edge where seagulls flew among the tower's struts.

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    The passage describes a young boy's experience riding in a small, ornate car on an amusement park ride up a tall tower. The car was meant to hold six people but the boy was the only passenger. As the car jerkily began climbing the noisy machinery, the boy felt too big for the seats and could only sit on the edge holding tightly to the rail. He watched as they passed large, wobbling wheels and other oily machinery making a dreadful noise. The higher the car climbed, the more the boy's spirits sank as he feared looking over the edge where seagulls flew among the tower's struts.

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    The passage describes a young boy's experience riding in a small, ornate car on an amusement park ride up a tall tower. The car was meant to hold six people but the boy was the only passenger. As the car jerkily began climbing the noisy machinery, the boy felt too big for the seats and could only sit on the edge holding tightly to the rail. He watched as they passed large, wobbling wheels and other oily machinery making a dreadful noise. The higher the car climbed, the more the boy's spirits sank as he feared looking over the edge where seagulls flew among the tower's struts.

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    READING COMPREHENSION ENGLISH 2 BACH. STUDENTS.

    Read the following text once, and then look carefully at each of the words printed in bold type. Remember when looking at each word that you should decide: a) what kind of word it is. b) what information is given in the sentence or the whole passage which can help you to work out the meaning. We got in a little blue car heavily decorated with shining brass and upholstered in deep red plush: we were the only ones in a car made to take six. As we waited to start, I tried to make myself cornfortable on the seats, but they were so high and vast that I could only sit on the edge with my legs dangling and my hands tightly clutching the brass safety rail in front: I felt like a pea in a pod. The operator pulled a greasy lever and the little car, after a sudden jerk, slowly began to climb the noisy ratchet railway to the top. We passed huge, wobbling wheels, and lots of other very oily machinery. The machinery was making a dreadful din. I peeped over the side of the car--all South Shields seemed to be gathered round the Would-have Memorial, watching our ascent. As we crawled higher and higher my spirits sank Iower and lower. Below us, some seagulls were flying about among the struts: after, that, I did not dare look over the edge of the car again.

    From The OnIy Child by James Kirkup.

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