Questions 28–32
28 E: New Delhi: She was a regular guest at parties and official functions [= social events].
29 C: Alamut: Despite malaria, dengue fever, and dysentery [= poor health]
30 A: Baghdad: applied for the role of governess for the Iraqi princesses at the court of Baghdad, Iraq, but was not successful [= failed to gain employment]
31 B: London: Stark returned to London and went to the Royal Geographical Society to take drawing courses so that she would be able to make her own maps on future trips [=learned a craft that would help her on her travels.]
32 D: Yemen: had to turn back without realising the goal she had set of finding the legendary lost city of Shabwa [= had to leave without achieving her purpose].