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Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill

by Steven Morris

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Each part of the text is a short level. Every answer is marked straight away, most of them with the reason.
Questions you miss come back in Review. The ones you get right come back later, spaced out, so they stick.
Earn a star on every part to open the final level.

Levels

Achievements

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Earned across every text you play.

First stepsFinish your first level.Not earned yet
Three starsEarn three stars on a level.Not earned yet
Clean sheetGet every question in a level right.Not earned yet
First inkFinish a part and ink its panels into your comic.Not earned yet
CollectorInk every panel in a text’s comic.Not earned yet
Full castEarn three stars on a Cast level.Not earned yet
The whole wayFinish a text’s final level.Not earned yet
Quote smithRebuild 10 quotations word by word.Not earned yet
Well readFinish a level in three different texts.Not earned yet
Second lookFinish a review.Not earned yet

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© Guardian News & Media Ltd, the copyright holder named in the anthology's acknowledgements. Article by Steven Morris, first published in The Guardian on 28 January 2003, as printed in adapted form in the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology (Issue 8, February 2026), pages 8-9.