Read the passage and answer the following questions. A. Jacob left the deep mine colliery at the end of his shift. He traipsed over the old slag heap towards the wooded copse which loomed up in front of him like some mysterious alien black mass in the dim light of the night. B. Jacob hunched himself up in a vain effort to shield himself against the biting, cold, winters wind. He abhorred this time of year. But he knew the seasons would soon change and spring would soon be upon this otherwise landscape, causing it inhospitable to morph into a bright, warm, all new world, which would seem like a lifetime away from the bleak winter C. Jacob headed towards the narrow footpath which lead through the copse and towards his home. His warm breath billowed from his mouth against the cold air, like smoke spewing from a chimney stack. Jacob looked up at the black shapes of the naked branches of the trees, silhouetted against the night sky, somehow they looked almost ghostly. The dead leaves beneath his feet, frozen from the nighttime frost, crunched as they broke and yielded under the weight of his heavy boots. He knew very soon it would all change. Soon the copse would be lush and green, the pathway soft underfoot. Oh, how he wanted that change to happen soon. remembered how, as a young man, his walk home would take half the time that it D. Jacob did now. Young, he was able to hasten his walk, almost as if was trying to out run the winters night. But now Jacobs walk is slow and cumbersome, burdened by the ravages whims of his arthritic ailments. Gone has the young, of time and the unpredictable athletic, nimble limbed man. Change has not been good, thought Jacob. An extract from 'The World is Forever Changing" by Graeme P Fritz