Reading Four (Answer)

Answers
1.
(a) Edward Cole felt it was the beginning of another day of work and torture.
(b) It means 'without hope or anything to look forward to'.
2.
(a) Cole wanted to escape from a prison.
(b) It means 'gradually without interruption or regularly'.
(c) It means 'an escape involving large number of people'.
3.
(a) He planned to escape with the other inmates by overpowering the guards and cutting the telephone wires.
(b) The word is 'subdue'.
4.
Cole wanted to go for walks in the park, go to the beach in summer and go skiing in winter.
5.
(a) The prison guards fired the shots.
(b) It refers to 'the prison camp'.
(c) The word is 'severed'.
(d) The prison wardens knew that when they heard gun shots.
6.
(a) Cole stole some clothes from a clothes-line and changed out of his prison uniform while he was in the village.
(b) The word is 'unnoticed'.
7.
(a) Cole was an army officer before he was caught and imprisoned.
(b) The word is 'sprinted'.
(c) It means 'overcome the difficulty or obstacle'.