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Both extracts focus on the strong bond and mutual affection between dogs and their owners. In Text A, Buck shows deep love and devotion to John Thornton, while in Text B, the author describes how dogs demonstrate their affection through physical gestures like a lick on the hand.  \n2 The correct answer is ‘the way a dog communicates its support in a physical way’. In both texts, dogs communicate their support and affection physically. In Text A, Skeet cleans Buck's wounds, while in Text B, a dog offers a gentle nudge or lick when their owner is upset, showing how dogs express care through touch.  \n3 The correct answer is ‘Dogs recognise the feeling behind their owners’words.’Both texts highlight how dogs respond to the emotions behind their owners' words rather than the specific words themselves. In Text A, Buck understands Thornton's \"murmured oaths\" as expressions of love, while Text B explains that dogs interpret the emotions in their owners' voices.  \n4 The correct answer is ‘widen out a criticism.’ The phrase “For that matter” in Text Ais used to expand on the idea that Buck, John Thornton, and Skeet are all relaxing and\"loafing\", suggesting that the entire group is taking a break and not just Buck.  \n5 The correct answer is ‘Buck eventually appreciated Skeet’s affection.’ Buck eventually comes to appreciate Skeet's affection, looking forward to her care each morning. Initially, Buck was too weak to respond, but he grows to enjoy her attention, and then goes on to enjoy “ridiculous games” with her.  \n6 The correct answer is ‘less needy.’ Compared to Skeet, who seeks out Thornton's attention by pushing her nose under his hand, Buck's love for Thornton is expressed more passively. Buck is content to adore Thornton from a distance, without demanding constant physical contact, making his expression of love less needy.  \n7 The correct answer is ‘his present owner would disappear from his life.’ In the last paragraph of Text A, Buck is haunted by the fear that his current owner, John Thornton, might leave him, as his experience with masters in the past is that they have been“transient”, rather than “permanent”.  \n8 The correct answer is ‘It is entirely genuine and earnest.’ Text B states that dogs are the only animal to “seek out eye contact”, and describes the stare a dog gives its owner as entirely genuine, using the word “truly” to emphasise the authenticity of a dog's feelings towards its owners.  \n[Task 2]  \nThe correct answers are:  \n9 took up  \n10 capacity  \n11 world  \n13 tomorrow  \n14 indecent  \n15 throwback  \n15 erased  \n[Task 3]  \n17 The correct answer is ‘It prompts the narrator to recall something.’ In the first verse, the curtain’s movement reminds the narrator that someone is home, suggesting it prompts a memory or recognition of the sleeper’s presence.  \n18 The correct answer is ‘the sleeper’s face is familiar and dear to the narrator.’ The narrator watches the sleeper with affection, describing their face as \"softened in sleep\", showing both their familiarity and warmth, and the untroubled nature of the sleep.  \n19 The correct answer is ‘In dreams, the sleeper will always remember their youth.’In the second verse, the narrator reflects that while the sleeper is forgetting their childhood, they will always return to it in dreams. The narrator on the other hand, says that they remember the sleeper’s childhood.  \n20 The correct answer is ‘to show they are closed’. The comparison of the sleeper's eyelids to \"buds\" primarily emphasises that they are closed, as buds are flowers that have not yet opened.  \n21 The correct answer is ‘the inside of the sleeper’s eyelids’ The phrase “their curtain” refers back to the eyelids, which are previously described as \"buds unbroken”. 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