What is the text mainly about?

One person's year abroad and the slow shift from feeling foreign to feeling at home

What had the narrator's experience of travel been before this year?

Nothing longer than school trips and a two-week seaside holiday

Because speaking about the homesickness would have made it feel real

Small, ordinary kindnesses from the people around the narrator

Torn, because the city had itself become a kind of home

A sense of belonging arrived gradually and almost unnoticed

Learning to Belong Somewhere New

built, with, about, between, stopped, for, kindnesses, monument, harder, did, given, in

What is the text mainly about? — One person's year abroad and the slow shift from feeling foreign to feeling at home
What had the narrator's experience of travel been before this year? — Nothing longer than school trips and a two-week seaside holiday
In the second paragraph, why did the narrator tell nobody about counting the months until home? — Because speaking about the homesickness would have made it feel real
What does the writer suggest was the real turning point of the year? — Small, ordinary kindnesses from the people around the narrator
How does the narrator feel about leaving at the end of the year? — Torn, because the city had itself become a kind of home
What does the phrase "belonging had crept up on me while I was busy feeling lost" suggest? — A sense of belonging arrived gradually and almost unnoticed
Which of the following would be the best alternative title for the text? — Learning to Belong Somewhere New
Read the passage and choose the best alternative for each gap. —
The passage below is paragraphs four and five of the study text. Fill each gap using the grey hint shown in the gap. — built, with, about, between, stopped, for, kindnesses, monument, harder, did, given, in