Task 2 Questions 13-18 Read the interview about Ted Finch. For questions 13-18, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
Interview - Ted Finch Ted Finch was a science fiction lover even before his teens. As a teen, he was writing science fiction stories for his family and friends and attending conventions. However, he had difficulties at school. "I was hyperactive," he says, "and could hardly keep in my seat. I would have loved Science if it had been presented in a more interesting way. I was top of the class in English, and I was interested enough in Art to sit fairly still during the lesson; otherwise, I couldn't wait for when we went to the gym and could run around." After secondary school, Finch went to the local university to study English. "My father had gone there," says Finch, "and his father, too. It was like a family tradition. For my family, it was obvious that I should go there, too - no question. I could have walked away from it all, it's true, but I had no sense of direction and couldn't think of an alternative. So I enrolled to study English, because that was the subject I was best at." But Finch dropped out of university at the end of his second year. "It was a difficult time for me. You see, I didn't feel that I was going anywhere, or doing anything with my life. I needed a new direction in my life's journey." He was still writing short stories for his amusement, and he soon got a job as a journalist on the local newspaper. "Local journalism is fascinating," says Finch. "You meet so many different types of people and see into their lives, which gave me lots of material for my future books. You are in direct contact with all sorts of joys and tragedies every day, and you have to report it in a particular style that's not too sensational and is factually correct. You can't be too careful, because they know where you live. Soon pretty much everyone knows who you are." Journalism gave Finch a feeling of accomplishment, and an income to go with it, but he did not see his future in it. When he was going round town as a journalist, he imagined a fantasy world, which, like Jonathan Swift did with Gulliver's Travels, he could use to satirise our world. This was the start of his Whereworld series of fantasy books. "Fantasy books usually carry us away from the day-to-day world we live in and take us into the world of the imagination," he says. "I wanted to use fantasy so we see the realities of our society from a different perspective." Although he is now one of Britain's best-selling authors, he will never win an award because the critics don't take fantasy literature seriously. "This doesn't bother me," says Finch. "All that matters is that people enjoy reading my books and think about the world around us. And, for me, writing the books is great fun." Finch has been writing one book a year for the last twenty years. "I needed the money to start with, of course. As I said, I'm hyperactive and so I easily get bored and have to find ways to occupy my mind, and writing is one way of doing this for me. But I also have a garden, and I could spend all my time looking after it if I wanted to. It's just that I can't imagine myself not writing my annual book. It's something I just have to do. Don't ask me why."
13 Finch's favourite subject at school was
14 Finch went to university because
15 Finch dropped out of university because
16 Finch thinks his job as a journalist
17 Finch thinks that his fantasy books
18 Finch writes one book a year
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