Paper 1a
You should be able to work out the meanings of words from their context.
Some words have a few meanings: litter can mean pieces of paper left in the street, a seat on which people were carried in the past, small stones put in a cat toilet, the straw a farm animal sleeps on, and a set of babies an animal gives birth to all at one time!
Read the short passages and then choose the best definition for the word specified.
1 Frank was busy putting up the tent. It didn't seem easy and he kept disappearing in the folds of the material. Roger was concentrating on building a fire. 'Why the rush?' I asked. 'We can't start cooking until we have the fire going, and I am starving, aren't you?' he replied. 'Well, I will unpack the supplies. Let's see what we have. Four large tins of baked beans, four tins of sausages, three tins of pork luncheon meat and two big tins of pineapple chunks. Not very healthy but quite tasty,' I said. 'But there is one slight hitch. None of the tins has a ring-pull and we didn't bring a tin-opener.'
Choose the right definition for 'hitch'
a) to travel by asking for free rides [verb]