Practice paper · Annual

OR ‘As I walked slowly back to the station, I thought about my mother, who had given me the address years ago. It had been in the first half of the war. I was home for a few days and it struck me immediately that something or other about the rooms had changed. I missed various things. My mother was surprised I should have noticed so quickly. Then she told me about Mrs. Dorling. I had never heard of her but apparently she was an old acquaintance of my mother whom she had not seen for years. She had suddenly turned up and renewed their contact since then she had come regularly.’ 1. What made the narrator feel that “something or other about the rooms had changed”?

1. AThe rooms were newly painted
2. BShe noticed that several familiar things were missing
3. CHer mother had rearranged the furniture
4. DMrs. Dorling was living with them