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1, In the first paragraph, the writer describes Susan's garden as
`->` B. having a path lined with flowers.
(and the large garden that surrounds her house is the source of many of her subjects.)
2, What does 'this' in line 12 refer to?
`->` D. the harmony of the planting
(There is a harmony of color, shape and structure in the two long flower borders that line the paved path which crosses the garden from east to west.)
3, What does Susan say about Danny?
`->` D. He was slow to see the point of some of her ideas.
(She also inherited the gardener, Danny. 'In fact, it was really his garden,' she says. 'We got on very well. At first he would say, "Oh, it's not worth it" to some of the things I wanted to put in, but when I said I wanted to paint them, he recognized what I had in mind.)
4, What is Susan's approach to painting?
`->`D. She creates her paintings in several stages.
(More usually, she picks them and then takes them up to her studio. 'I don't set the whole thing up at once,' she says. 'I take one flower out and paint it, which might take a few days, and then I bring in another one and build up the painting that way. Sometimes it takes a couple of years to finish.)
5, Susan thinks that tulips
`->`C. look best some time after they have been cut.
('you bring them in and put them in water, then leave them for perhaps a day and they each form themselves into different shapes. They open out and are fantastic. When you first put them in a vase, you think they are boring, but they change all the time with twists and turns.)
6, Why did Susan enjoy studying wild flowers at school?
`->`A She found the way they adapted to their surroundings fascinating.
(I was intrigued by the way they managed to flower in really awkward places, like cracks in rocks or on cliff tops.)
7, How does the writer describe Susan’s attitude to her garden?
`->`C She likes a certain amount of disorder.
(who is quite happy for children to run about undisciplined as long as they don't do any serious damage.)
8, What point is Susan making in the final paragraph?
`->` B. It’s important not to leave the gardening entirely to other people.
(With two forthcoming exhibitions to prepare for, and a ready supply of subject material at her back door, finding time to work in the garden has been difficult recently. She now employs an extra gardener but, despite the need to paint, she knows that, to maintain her connection with her subject matter, 'you have to get your hands dirty'.)