READING PASSAGE 2
You should spend about 20 .minutes on Questions 14-26
Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading
Passage 2 below.
Brunel: ‘The Practical Prophet’
A
In the frontispiece of his book on Brunel, Peter Hay quotes from Nicholson’s British
Encyclopaedia of 1909 as follows: ‘Engineers are extremely necessary for these purposes;
wherefore it is requisite that, besides being ingenious, they should be brave in proportion.’ His
father, Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849), was himself a famous engineer, of French
parents. He eventually settled in Britain and married the Sophia Kingdom, an English woman
whom he had known in France in earlier days. Their only son Isambard was born on 9 April
1806. He was sent to France at the age of 14 to study mathematics and science and was 16
when he returned to England to work with his father. Sir Marc was then building his famous
tunnel under the River Thames. Isambard was recuperating near Bristol from injuries received
in a tunnel cave-in when he became involved with his own first major project.
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