C1 English Reading Test: A Walk Gone Wrong — Exercise 1

Question 1

What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?

Accepted Answer

To suggest the narrator initially had little reason to expect serious difficulty.

Answer

To prove that the guidebook gave dangerously inaccurate information.

Answer

To explain why the narrator wanted to complete the walk before dinner.

Question 2

Why does the narrator later keep thinking about the decision at the fork?

Accepted Answer

He recognises that a brief, casual choice started the later problems.

Answer

He believes the fallen marker was deliberately hidden.

Answer

He regrets not spending more time studying digital maps before the walk.

Question 3

What does the phrase 'walking inside an unfinished drawing' suggest about the mist?

Accepted Answer

It removed so much visual detail that the surroundings seemed incomplete.

Answer

It made the landscape look artistic but unrealistic.

Answer

It caused the narrator to imagine landmarks that had never existed.

Question 4

What can be inferred from the narrator's encounter with the bull?

Accepted Answer

His anxiety makes him treat a distant but real risk cautiously.

Answer

He assumes the animal will prevent him from returning to the village.

Answer

He is more frightened of animals than of being lost in bad weather.

Question 5

Why does the narrator say modern confidence can shrink to the size of a battery symbol?

Accepted Answer

His sense of control depends heavily on access to digital navigation.

Answer

He realises his expensive equipment is too heavy to be useful.

Answer

He believes technology has made people physically less capable of walking.

Question 6

How does falling in the mud affect the narrator?

Accepted Answer

It replaces imagined disasters with immediate actions he can manage.

Answer

It convinces him that continuing downhill is physically unsafe.

Answer

It makes him accept that somebody else will need to rescue him.

Question 7

What does the narrator finally understand about why the walk went wrong?

Accepted Answer

He relied on confidence and isolated symbols without checking what they actually meant.

Answer

He should never have trusted a guidebook that described the route as easy.

Answer

He failed because coastal landscapes cannot be understood without local knowledge.

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