1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow : Can't imagine why you come along at all! You surely didn't think it would be smooth sailing all the time? (a) Identify the 'speaker' in the above lines. (b) Who is the speaker talking to ? (c) Where are they going? (d) Why does the speaker say that the listener shouldn't have thought that it would be smooth sailing all the time?
Answers
Explanation:
Loch Ness, the largest lake in the British Isles and the largest in Europe, is the
principal basin of the Great Glen. Any possible underground passage from the
Loch to the North Sea has long ago, been dammed by some two miles of river-
bought silt, thus changing the original sea Loch into a fresh water lake. It has no
curving outlines made by an indented shore or shallow bays: but instead, its
riparian walls slice straight down, giving the appearance of an enormous ditch
widening to 1.5 miles and extending approximately 23 miles from Inverness in
the North to Fort Augustus at the southern end, where the Caledonian Canal
continues into the Atlantic. Its depth exceeds 700 feet over much of its length,
with the deepest point so far discovered of 975 feet. The coldest water remains
at a fairly, constant 42 degrees warm enough to provide a home for literally
millions of migration eels, which, according to ichthyologists have made their
home here instead of going to the sea. Along th-
brown algae adheres to the stones, and in the shallows around the mouths of
tributary rivers is an abundance of fresh water weeds and organic detritus, all a
possible food source