Read the text below and answer Questions 1-3
This extract is from War of the Worlds by HG Wells, a sci-fi novel written in
1898 In this novel, aliens from Mars, or Martians, are invading Earth and
threatening humankind. In this extract, the narrator is seeing a Martian
emerging from the cylinder in which it travelled to Earth for the first s
War of the Worlds: HG Wells
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Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange
lip, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant
horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper
quivering of this mouth, the groups of tentacles, the strange breathing of the
lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of
movement-above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes-sot
at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous. There was something
fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the
tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even at this first encounter, this firs
glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread.
Suddenly the monster vanished. It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder
and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather. I heard
it give a peculiar thick cry, and forthwith another of these creatures appeared
darkly in the deep shadow.
I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a
hundred yards away, but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my
face from these things.
fungoid* - something that looks like a fungus