In the sentence “look about the room”, in line 1, about is...

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1-------I look about the room where I have been at work for

almost a quarter century. Proofs of unread novels

accumulate on the coffee table. I sit at a large table that was

4 in the house when I bought it. Everything since Burr has

been written at this table. Lately we have acquired a

television set to watch the news on CNN and old movies.

7 Videocassettes are beginning to crowd out the books. To the

left of the fireplace, a chiaroscuro Neapolitan painting by

Viola. “Typical of early eighteenth-century South German

10 painting”, boomed the journalist Joe Alsop. As Joe was an

expert on everything, he was generally wrong on almost

everything, particularly his subject, politics. For thirty years

13 we were losing to Communism, according to Joe; he was a

romantic goose, but endearing.

[...].

16-------Ordinarily, I don’t think much about the past. A

friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one

moment of my past that I would like to relive. Apparently, I

19 am unlike others in this. In fact, everyone I’ve put that

question to has a list of times and places and people to be

revisited. I am only at home in the present, and view with

22 dislike the numerous letters from biographers. On my desk

there are now two new requests for recollection — of Alec

Guinness and Terry Southern. Who next? I like both, but

25 what on earth has one got to say about either that will be

interesting? Little anecdotes are not my style. Of course, I

could review their life work, but I charge for writing

28 reviews.

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VIDAL, Gore. Palimpsest — a memoir.

London: Penguin, 1996, pp. 147-8.

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Considering the ideas and the vocabulary of the text above,decide whether the statements below are right (C) orwrong (E).

In the sentence “look about the room”, in line 1, about is used as adverb rather than a preposition.

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