The key answer of exercise 14

a)

B is true.

b)

Several years ago I was spending Christmas in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. My brother Jose was working there and unfortunately he couldn't get any time off to come home, so I spent the holiday with him. One day we decided to go up Mount Tide, a volcano in the centre of the island. This was the last day of my visit, so we hired a little car for the day.

José and I set off in brilliant sunshine, but very quickly it got much colder and by the time we reached the crater of Mount Teide it was snowing. For some reason all the restaurants, hotels and petrol stations at the top of the volcano were shut, and we had almost run out of petrol. At this point, I started getting really worried because I had to catch the plane home that evening, and if I didn't, I would have to pay for a new ticket. So José decided to do something incredibly dangerous - he switched off the engine of the car and freewheeled down the other side of the mountain. He did this for several kilometres, round hairpin bends on dangerous, icy roads. I was absolutely petrified, but for some reason I didn't tell him to stop.

All of sudden my worst nightmare happened: the car slipped on the road and the two front wheels went over the edge. We were very lucky that the rest of the car didn't go over. We sat in the car for ages, not daring to move and freezing cold, waiting for someone to come past. Eventually, a car came round the corner and out jumped three enormous men. Without saying a word, the three men surrounded the car and literally lifted it back on the road. My brother and I got out to thank them, but the three men just repeated 'Norway' several times - we assumed that that was where they came from - then got back into their car and drove off. By this stage we were so relieved we could have kissed them! We got back into our car and continued down the side of the mountain. I have never felt so happy in my life as when we reached the town at the bottom. We went straight to a petrol station and filled up. Ironically, the petrol station was owned by a Norwegian company!