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THE TIME MACHINE (fragment)
Far away I heard a scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly flying up into the sky and, circling, disappear over
some low hills. The sound of its voice was so sad that it made me nervous. Looking round again, I saw that, quite near, what
I had thought to be a red rock was moving slowly towards me. Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature.
Can you imagine a crab as large as a table, with its many legs moving slowly towards you, its eyes looking straight at you?
As I stared at this horrible creature, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had landed there. I tried to brush it
away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately there came another by my ear. I struck at
this, and caught something like a thin piece of wire. I turned, and I saw another monster crab just behind me. Its evil
eyes were moving round and its mouth was ready to make me its dinner. In a moment my hand was on the lever of the
time machine, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters. But I was still on the same beach, and I
saw them as soon as I stopped.
It was a terrible world I was in. The red eastern sky, the dead sea, the stony beach full of these giant monsters, the
poisonous-looking green of the plants, the thin air that hurt my lungs. Was this really the Earth? What had happened to
the people, civilizations, my world? I moved on a hundred years, and there was the same red sun – a little larger, but not
as bright, the same dying sea, the same cold air, and the same crabs walking among the green weeds and red rocks.
So I travelled, stopping every thousand years or more, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and the
life of the old earth die away. At last, more than thirty million years into the future, the huge red-hot sun filled nearly
a tenth part of the skies. The crawling crabs had disappeared, and the red beach seemed lifeless.
I looked about me to see if any traces of animal life remained but I saw nothing moving, on earth or sky or sea. Only the
green plants on the rocks showed that life was not quite yet extinct.

7.1. The scream the man heard
A was made by the crabs.
B made the man feel sad.
C was what frightened the butterfly.
D was made by the butterfly.

7.2. The feeling the man felt on his cheek was
A a fly.
B a crab.
C an animal he couldn’t see.
D a thin wire.

7.3. When the man visited the same place one hundred years later he noticed a difference in the
A size of the sun.
B number of crabs.
C colour of the plants.
D temperature of the air.

7.4. On his final visit
A there were no crabs.
B all life had become extinct.
C the plants on the beach had disappeared.
D the sun was only a tenth of the size that it had been.

7.5. In the text, the author
A blames humans for the changes that happen to the Earth.
B justifies his observations with scientific evidence.
C proves that time travel is possible.
D shocks readers by using vivid description.