Up to which standard had narrator's father studied?
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Section 1: Reading Test
QUESTION 1
Choice A is the best answer. The first paragraph explains the
narrator’s love of reading: “Even then my only friends were made of
paper and ink. . . . Where my school friends saw notches of ink on
incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people.” The fourth
paragraph reiterates this love in its description of the bookshop as
a “sanctuary” and “refuge.” The shift in focus occurs in the last six
paragraphs, which recount the gift of a book that transforms the
narrator’s love of reading into a desire to write: “I did not think there
could be a better [book] in the whole world and I was beginning
to suspect that Mr. Dickens had written it just for me. Soon I was
convinced that I didn’t want to do anything else in life but learn to do
what Mr. Dickens had done.” Thus the passage’s overall focus shifts
from the narrator’s love of reading to a specific incident that influences
his decision to become a writer.
Choice B is incorrect because the passage never focuses on the
narrator’s father, who primarily serves to illustrate the narrator’s
determination to read books despite all obstacles. Choice C is incorrect
because the passage focuses on the narrator’s desire to write rather
than on whatever skill he may have as a writer. Choice D is incorrect
because the passage doesn’t make the narrator’s childhood hardships
its central focus or analyze the effects of those hardships.