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The journey is over nine thousand kilometres and takes more than a week to complete.  \n1 And now the journey was almost over. There is no more luxurious sensation than what maybe described as the ‘end of term’ feeling. I felt very content. After tomorrow there would beno more trips to the dining-car; no more of that black bread, in consistency and flavour suggesting rancid peat; no more of that equally earthy tea; no more of a monk’s existence; no  \n5 more days entirely blank of action. It was true that I did not know what I was going to do, that I had nothing very specific to look forward to. But I knew what I was going to stop  \n7 doing, and that, for the moment, was enough.  \nI wandered along the train to my compartment, undressed and got into my bed. As I did so, I noticed for the first time  \n10 that the number on my berth was thirteen. For a long time, I could not sleep but eventually I drifted off.  \n12 All of a sudden there was a frightful jarring, followed by a crash. I sat up in my berth. From the rack above me my heaviest suitcase was cannonaded down, catching me with fearful force on either knee-cap. This is the end of the world, I thought, and in addition they have broken both  \n15 my legs. My little world was tilted drunkenly. The window showed me nothing except a few fields. It was six o’clock. I began to dress. I felt very much annoyed. But I climbed out of the carriage into a refreshingly spectacular world and the annoyance passed. The Trans-Siberian Express train sprawled foolishly down the embankment. The mail van and the dining-car, which had been in front, lay on their sides at the bottom. Behind them the five sleeping cars,  \n20 headed by my own, were disposed in attitudes which became less and less grotesque until you got to the last, which had remained, primly, on the rails. Fifty yards down the line, the engine, which had parted company with the train, was dug in, snorting steam, on top of the  \n23 embankment. It had a defiant and naughty look; it was definitely conscious of indiscretion.  \nIt would be difficult to imagine a nicer sort of railway accident. No one was hurt. The  \n25 weather was ideal. And the whole thing was done in just the right sort of theatrical manner, with lots of twisted steel and splintered woodwork and turf scarred deeply with demoniac force.  \nThis was great fun: a comical and violent climax to an interlude in which comedy and violence had been altogether too lacking for my tastes. It was good to lie back in the long  \n30 grass on a little hill and meditate upon that sprawling scrap-heap. There she lay, in the middle of the wide green plain; the fastest train, the Trans-Siberian Luxury Express. For more than a week she had bullied us. She had knocked us about when we went to clean our teeth in the little bathroom, she had jogged our elbows when we wrote, and when we read, she made the print dance tiresomely before our eyes. Her windows we might not open on account of the  \n35 dust, and when closed they had proved a perpetual attraction to small, sabotaging boys with stones. She had annoyed us in a hundred little ways: by spilling tea in our laps, by running out of butter, by regulating our life. She had been our prison. We had not liked her. Now she was down and out. We left her lying there, a broken, buckled toy, a thick black worm without a head, awkwardly twisted: a thing of no use.  \nSource B  \nSou","cbCaio28OZb7NXzc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio28OZb7NXzc","pdf",330682,"English","# Source A\n## Extract summary and key description\n# Source B\n## Extract summary and key description\n# Comparison focus","[{\"question\":\"What are the two sources provided for the exam question?\",\"answer\":\"Source A is an extract from Peter Fleming’s travel book One’s Company (1933). 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