A change for better

Multiple Choice

What is the author's opinion of everyday inventions?

• On the whole they make life easier

• Some people do not know how to use them very well.

• They cause more problems than they solve.

• He likes them now more than he used to.

Multiple Choice

What point is the author making with the story of his experience at Burger King?

• Fast food restaurants are not very fast.

• Some aspects of modern life are not always as convenient as they are intended to be.

• The driver of the pickup truck had parked in the wrong place.

• The queues at the drive-through windows are usually very long.

Multiple Choice

What does the author tell us about everyday inventions in America?

• They were all invented there.

• They make life less exciting.

• People assumed they would make life more comfortable.

• There aren't as many now as there used to be.

Multiple Choice

What does the author mean by 'Perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me' (line 23)?

• He is sometimes very forgetful.

• He cannot remember all the details.

• What he says might not be completely true.

• He remembers having fun.

Multiple Choice

What does 'the whole thing' in line 26 refer to?

• the turkey

• the plate

• the rubber gloves

• the carving knife

Multiple Choice

What does the author say about labour-saving devices today?

• People cannot stop buying them.

• People try to do ridiculous things with them.

• They are better than the ones in the sixties.

• They help people to do more work.

Multiple Choice

What does 'them' in line 40 refer to?

• earlier owners

• the gadgets

• houses in New Hampshire

• the writer's family

Multiple Choice

What are we told about the automatic curtains?

• They had been brought from a previous house.

• Some of them worked as they were supposed to.

• The room where they were fitted was never used.

• The author and his family decided not to use them