Choose the correct answer

Why did the narrator buy the book about vegetables?

a. She wanted to improve her diet.

b. To understand why her husband was leaving her.

c. To give her life order.

d. There was something she liked about the book when she first saw it.

What did the narrator particularly like about using the vegetable book?

a. It got her to do things in public she normally wouldn't have done.

b. She learned a lot about vegetarian eating.

c. It gave good advice about what to buy in supermarkets.

d. It contrasted well with the chaos in her personal life.

Why did the narrator first stop laughing in the supermarket?

a. Because the assistant manager arrived on the scene.

b. She could see the assistant manager was in a difficult situation.

c. She realised she wasn't happy but actually very sad about her marriage.

d. She felt embarrassed about laughing in front of everyone in public.

How is the assistant manager feeling when they arrive in the cafe?

a. Relieved that the scene is over.

b. Happy not to be working.

c. Nervous about this woman who had acted so strangely.

d. Sad about his own family problems.

What is the first thing Colin, the assistant manager, discovers about the narrator's husband?

a. That he is causing problems in their marriage.

b. That he looks young for his age.

c. That he is much younger than the narrator.

d. That he isn't available to come and collect the narrator.

Why was Colin upset?

a. His father had left with Colin's girlfriend.

b. Colin's own parents' marriage had failed.

c. He was desperate to leave the narrator in the cafe.

d. He didn't agree with what the narrator had said about men.

BABY-BEARING GRANDMOTHERS

Read the text about an Italian doctor. Nine sentences have been removed from the article.

Severino Antinori is an Italian obstetrician. Dr Antinori’s claim to fame is not that he is simply one of the many doctors who provide artificial fertilisation, but that he provides such artificial fertilisation for women who are long past normal child-bearing age. For example, in 1992, a 61-year-old widow from Palermo, Sicily, had a baby. Dr Antinori had planted in her an egg fertilised with her husband’s sperm.

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After 32 years of childless marriage, another Sicilian housewife, Giuseppina Maganuca, had a baby planted by Antinori at the age of 53. She said: “My baby is an angel, and the doctor is a saint... “Another woman, Anita Blokziel, aged 56, a former circus acrobat from Amsterdam, gave birth to a baby girl. Of Antinori, she says: “The doctor has made me the happiest of women.

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The Catholic church is certain that Dr Antinori is not a performer of miracles.

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The head of the church’s bio-ethical commission has condemned his work as “horrifying”.

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The early work in this field was done by Simon Fishel. He developed a technique for injecting a single sperm into the female egg, the ovum.

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According to Dr Fishel, “the only real problem that hasn’t been solved in this area is how old the woman can be, and how safe the treatment is.

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Does this mean that women may continue to have children into their seventies and eighties, that the power-women of today may now put off having a family until 2040? It seems like it.

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It seems that about 30,000 women worldwide are being offered these hi-tech breeding systems. They spend about $400 million a year.

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The good doctor hit the headlines in Britain after it got into the newspapers that, as a result of his efforts, an unnamed Englishwoman of 55 was expecting twins in December. The news was greeted with scorn and derision in the newspapers, so much so that Dr Antinori has been consulting a London-based libel lawyer.

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