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Bruce Parry has been traveling the world and living with indigenous tribes. The newspaper article discusses Parry's recent travels where he lived with the Surma tribe in Ethiopia and the Waorani tribe in Ecuador. It describes some of the hardships Parry endured while living with these tribes, including drinking blood and eating ants and larvae. The article aims to convey the difficulties of truly living as a member of these primitive tribes.

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Centre Number Candidate Number For Examiner’s Use Surname Other Names Examiner’s Initials Candidate Signature Question Mark General Certificate of Secondary Education 1 Higher Tier 2 3 English/English Language ENG1H 4 Unit 1 Understanding and producing non fiction texts H 5 6 SPECIMEN TOTAL Dateline Timeline Time allowed ! 2 hours Instructions ! Use black ink or black ball-point pen. ! Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. ! Answer all questions. ! You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. ! Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. ! You must refer to the insert booklet provided. ! You must not use a dictionary. Information ! The marks for questions are shown in brackets. ! The maximum mark for this paper is 80. ! There are 40 marks for Section A and 40 marks for Section B. ! You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. ! You will be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A. ! You will be assessed on the quality of your writing in Section B. Advice ! You are advised to spend about one hour on Section A and one hour on Section B. (XXXXXENG1H) M/ENG1H ENG1H
2 Do not write outside the box Section A: Reading Answer all questions in this section. You are advised to spend about one hour on this section. Read Item 1, the newspaper article called Do you really want to be in our tribe? by Jan Moir. 1 What do you learn from Jan Moir’s newspaper article about where Bruce Parry has been and what he was doing? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (02) M/ENG1H
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4 Do not write outside the box Now read Item 2, the article and the picture which goes with it called New life revealed in rainforests of the deep by Sophie Tedmanson. 2 How do the headline and the whole picture add to the effectiveness of the text? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (04) M/ENG1H
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6 Do not write outside the box Now read Item 3, Afghan Journey which is an extract from a non-fiction book. 3 What are some of the thoughts and feelings Mansur has during the journey? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (06) M/ENG1H
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8 Do not write outside the box Now you need to refer to Item 3, Afghan Journey and either Item 1 or Item 2. You are going to compare two texts, one of which you have chosen. 4 Compare the ways in which language is used for effect in the two texts. Give some examples and explain what the effects are. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (08) M/ENG1H
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Do not write 11 outside the box Section B: Writing Answer both questions in this section. You are advised to spend about one hour on this section. You are advised to spend about 25 minutes on question 5. You are advised to spend about 35 minutes on question 6. 5 Write a letter to a friend explaining why you would like him or her to join you in a visit to a place which you think is very special. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Turn over! (11) M/ENG1H
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14 Do not write outside the box 6 Some people think it’s wrong that primitive peoples and their communities are disrupted by tourists and TV crews and that they should be left in peace. Write an article for a travel magazine which argues for or against this idea. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (14) M/ENG1H
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General Certificate of Secondary Education Higher Tier June XXXX English/English Language ENG1H Unit 1 Understanding and producing non fiction texts SPECIMEN H Insert The three items that follow are: ! ITEM 1: a website news article called Do you really want to be in our tribe? by Jan Moir ! ITEM 2: a newspaper article called New life revealed in rainforests of the deep by Sophie Tedmanson ! ITEM 3: Afghan Journey, an extract from a non Þction text called The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Insert to ENG1H ENG1H
2 ITEM 1 SEARCH Home News Sport Finance Lifestyle Comment Travel Culture Technology Fashion Jobs Dating Games T Offer Film Music Art Books TV and Radio Theatre Dance Opera Comedy CulturePictureGalleries Culture Blogs Culture Video Culture home Do you really want to be in our tribe? Books Jan Moir Film Published: 12.01AM GMT 03 Jan 2005 Music << Previous 1 of 5 images Next >> Stage TV & radio Video games Visual arts Arts blogs Picture galleries Latest reviews MUST SEE Culture Minute Must see Films Box office The week’s must-see films, chosen by Sukhdev Sandhu and Tim Robey. Chess Club Music Crossword Society Theatre Horoscopes Back home: Bruce relaxes on more familiar turf Art exhibitions Announcements Bruce Parry would rather be described as an expeditionary than an explorer, Comedy but he’s not splitting hairs. For much of the past year, he has been splitting Culture rats in half instead, then scooping out their innards for lunch or chargrilling Blogs their tails for a nice evening snack. Comment Crossword “If you have been living on raw, dry sago for a week, which sucks the moisture from your mouth and is like eating chalk, then you are grateful for anything different you Dating can get. Digital Life I ate and drank a lot of pretty grim stuff, but the truth is that I don’t mind the odd Earth locust - it tastes like a prawn - and the secret to drinking blood is to do it quickly. Education Otherwise it tastes stringy as it goes down. Expat The redoubtable Parry and his ironclad intestines feature in the television series, Family Tribe. Over the past 12 months, he has lived with some of the most remote tribes on Fantasy Games the planet; eating, sleeping and living the way they do, taking part in their rituals and Fashion adopting as many of their customs as he could. Features “It’s about getting in the zone, immersing myself in the culture of each area,” is how Food & Drink he describes it. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a Football tribal dude but that is now how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to Gardening do, showing them respect and hanging out with them. And they loved it. It’s all been an amazing journey, an incredible experience. I am grateful for it all.” Parry’s travels have looped across the globe. In the Arunachal Pradesh region of India, he was the Þrst white man in living memory to visit the Adi people, while with the cannibalistic Kombai tribe of West Papua, he used stone tools and ate (non-human) meals cooked with hot stones. While with the Suri in Ethiopia, he had his skin slashed with razor blades and thorns as part of an ancient ritual ceremony. “The women laughed at me. They thought I was a terrible wimp because I ßinched,” he says. Today in a London restaurant he clings on to a glass of champagne and looks shattered. We have sweet grilled scallops, delicious ribbons of ham and a hillock of spaghetti with crab and aubergine sauce all of which Parry dispatches lustily – and a bottle of wine which, amongst its many excellent characteristics, is not one which tastes stringy going down the throat. Insert to ENG1H
3 ITEM 2 New life revealed in rainforests of the deep Sophie Tedmanson A rare species of stingray, a 2,000-year-old coral and extinct underwater volcanoes are among hundreds of discoveries found under the ocean by a scientiÞc expedition off the coast of Australia. Marine experts say that the discoveries shine a new light on what they say are some of the most biologically important oceanic habitats in the world. In the icy waters of a Southern Ocean marine park, 100 nautical miles off the coast of Tasmania, scientists found more than 270 new marine species — including Þsh, crustaceans, molluscs, sponges and corals — and 80 previously unknown seamounts or underwater mountains. The undersea mountains, which measured half a mile high and 15 miles (25km) wide, form “rainforests of the deep”. For the Þrst time scientists also laid eyes upon underwater canyons larger than the Grand Canyon in Arizona Scientists said that only a tiny proportion of Australia’s oceans had been explored in such a way and that they could only speculate on the biodiversity hidden under the water. The discoveries were made during two voyages in November 2006 and April 2007. Some of the oldest discoveries included 2,000-year-old living black coral, bamboo coral more than 300 years old, and Þsh about 200 years old. Carbon dating was used to determine the age of the deep-sea treasures. In total 123 underwater mountains were also revealed. Of the discoveries about 70 per cent had never been seen by humans before. A live stingray, from a species of which only one dead specimen had ever been found in Australian waters, was also captured, and a glass sponge, so delicate that it could not be brought to the surface without breaking it. © The Times 10/2008 Turn over! Insert to ENG1H
4 ITEM 3 Afghan Journey In this extract, Mansur and his friends are making a journey from Kabul, in Afghanistan, to a New Year Festival some miles away. Mansur spends the night with Akbar to make sure he wakes up. The next morning, before dawn, they are off. Mansur’s only luggage consists of a plastic bag full of Coke and Fanta cans and biscuits with banana and kiwi Þlling. Akbar has a friend with him and everyone is in high spirits. They play Indian Þlm music and sing at the top of their voices. Mansur has brought his treasure with him, a western cassette, Pop from the 80s. ‘Is this love? Baby, don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more’ resounds out into the cool morning. Before they have driven half an hour Mansur has eaten the Þrst packet of biscuits and drunk two Cokes. He feels free. He wants to scream and shout, and sticks his head out of the window. ‘Ouhhhhiiii! Here I come!’ They pass areas he has never before seen. Immediately north of Kabul is the Shomali Plain one of the most war-torn areas of Afghanistan. Here bombs from American B52s shook the ground only a few months ago. ‘How beautiful,’ Mansur shouts. And from a distance the plain is beautiful, against the backdrop of the mighty snow-clad Hindu Kush mountains that proudly rise up to the sky. Mansur stares in silence at the awful villages they pass. Most of them are in ruins and rear up in the landscape like skeletons. The remains of twisted tanks, wrecked military vehicles and bits of metal whose purpose Mansur can only guess at, lie thrown around. A lonely man walks behind a plough. In the middle of his patch lies a large tank. He walks laboriously around it – it is too heavy to move. The car drives fast over the potholed road. Mansur tries to spot his mother’s village. He has not been there since was was Þve or six. His Þnger constantly points to more ruins. There! There! But nothing distinguishes one village from another. The place where he visited his mother’s relatives as a little boy could be any one of these heaps of rubble. He remembers how he ran around on the paths and Þelds. Now the plain is the most mined place in the world. Only the roads are safe. Children with bundles of Þrewood and women with buckets of water walk along the side of the road. They try to avoid the ditches where the mines might be. The ditches are full of wild, dark-red short-stemmed tulips. But the ßowers must be admired at distance. Picking them would be risky. Akbar is having fun with a book published by the Afghan Tourist Organisation in 1967. ‘“Along the roads children sell chains of pink tulips”,’ he reads. ‘“In the spring cherries, apricots, almond and pear trees jostle for the attention of the traveller. A ßowering spectacle follows the traveller all the way to Kabul”.’ They laugh. This spring they spot a lone rebellious cherry tree or two that have survived bombs, rockets, a three-year drought and poisoned wells. ASNE SEIERSTAD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT-HOLDERS AND PUBLISHERS ITEM 1: JAN MOIR, Do you really want to be in our tribe? Daily Telegraph on-line (2005) The Daily Telegraph Photo: Image of Bruce Parry, ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2004/Christopher Cox ITEM 2: SOPHIE TEDMANSON, New Life revealed in rainforests of the deep, (The Times), 2008 ITEM 3: ASNE SEIERSTAD (2002) Reproduced from The Bookseller of Kabul by ASNE SEIERSTAD with kind permission of Virago, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group. Copyright © 2009 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Insert to ENG1H

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AQA English Lang Unit 1 exam paper

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    Centre Number Candidate Number For Examiner’s Use Surname Other Names Examiner’s Initials Candidate Signature Question Mark General Certificate of Secondary Education 1 Higher Tier 2 3 English/English Language ENG1H 4 Unit 1 Understanding and producing non fiction texts H 5 6 SPECIMEN TOTAL Dateline Timeline Time allowed ! 2 hours Instructions ! Use black ink or black ball-point pen. ! Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. ! Answer all questions. ! You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. ! Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. ! You must refer to the insert booklet provided. ! You must not use a dictionary. Information ! The marks for questions are shown in brackets. ! The maximum mark for this paper is 80. ! There are 40 marks for Section A and 40 marks for Section B. ! You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. ! You will be assessed on the quality of your reading in Section A. ! You will be assessed on the quality of your writing in Section B. Advice ! You are advised to spend about one hour on Section A and one hour on Section B. (XXXXXENG1H) M/ENG1H ENG1H
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    2 Do not write outside the box Section A: Reading Answer all questions in this section. You are advised to spend about one hour on this section. Read Item 1, the newspaper article called Do you really want to be in our tribe? by Jan Moir. 1 What do you learn from Jan Moir’s newspaper article about where Bruce Parry has been and what he was doing? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (02) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 3 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (8 marks) ____ 8 Turn over! (03) M/ENG1H
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    4 Do not write outside the box Now read Item 2, the article and the picture which goes with it called New life revealed in rainforests of the deep by Sophie Tedmanson. 2 How do the headline and the whole picture add to the effectiveness of the text? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (04) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 5 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (8 marks) ____ 8 Turn over! (05) M/ENG1H
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    6 Do not write outside the box Now read Item 3, Afghan Journey which is an extract from a non-fiction book. 3 What are some of the thoughts and feelings Mansur has during the journey? ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (06) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 7 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (8 marks) ____ 8 Turn over! (07) M/ENG1H
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    8 Do not write outside the box Now you need to refer to Item 3, Afghan Journey and either Item 1 or Item 2. You are going to compare two texts, one of which you have chosen. 4 Compare the ways in which language is used for effect in the two texts. Give some examples and explain what the effects are. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (08) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 9 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Turn over! (09) M/ENG1H
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    10 Do not write outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (16 marks) ____ 16 (10) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 11 outside the box Section B: Writing Answer both questions in this section. You are advised to spend about one hour on this section. You are advised to spend about 25 minutes on question 5. You are advised to spend about 35 minutes on question 6. 5 Write a letter to a friend explaining why you would like him or her to join you in a visit to a place which you think is very special. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Turn over! (11) M/ENG1H
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    12 Do not write outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (12) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 13 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (16 marks) ____ 16 Turn over! (13) M/ENG1H
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    14 Do not write outside the box 6 Some people think it’s wrong that primitive peoples and their communities are disrupted by tourists and TV crews and that they should be left in peace. Write an article for a travel magazine which argues for or against this idea. ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (14) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 15 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Turn over! (15) M/ENG1H
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    16 Do not write outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (16) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 17 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (24 marks) ____ 24 END OF QUESTIONS (17) M/ENG1H
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    18 Do not write outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (18) M/ENG1H
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    Do not write 19 outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ (19) M/ENG1H
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    20 Do not write outside the box ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................................................ Copyright © 2009 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. (20) M/ENG1H
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    General Certificate ofSecondary Education Higher Tier June XXXX English/English Language ENG1H Unit 1 Understanding and producing non fiction texts SPECIMEN H Insert The three items that follow are: ! ITEM 1: a website news article called Do you really want to be in our tribe? by Jan Moir ! ITEM 2: a newspaper article called New life revealed in rainforests of the deep by Sophie Tedmanson ! ITEM 3: Afghan Journey, an extract from a non Þction text called The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad Insert to ENG1H ENG1H
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    2 ITEM 1 SEARCH Home News Sport Finance Lifestyle Comment Travel Culture Technology Fashion Jobs Dating Games T Offer Film Music Art Books TV and Radio Theatre Dance Opera Comedy CulturePictureGalleries Culture Blogs Culture Video Culture home Do you really want to be in our tribe? Books Jan Moir Film Published: 12.01AM GMT 03 Jan 2005 Music << Previous 1 of 5 images Next >> Stage TV & radio Video games Visual arts Arts blogs Picture galleries Latest reviews MUST SEE Culture Minute Must see Films Box office The week’s must-see films, chosen by Sukhdev Sandhu and Tim Robey. Chess Club Music Crossword Society Theatre Horoscopes Back home: Bruce relaxes on more familiar turf Art exhibitions Announcements Bruce Parry would rather be described as an expeditionary than an explorer, Comedy but he’s not splitting hairs. For much of the past year, he has been splitting Culture rats in half instead, then scooping out their innards for lunch or chargrilling Blogs their tails for a nice evening snack. Comment Crossword “If you have been living on raw, dry sago for a week, which sucks the moisture from your mouth and is like eating chalk, then you are grateful for anything different you Dating can get. Digital Life I ate and drank a lot of pretty grim stuff, but the truth is that I don’t mind the odd Earth locust - it tastes like a prawn - and the secret to drinking blood is to do it quickly. Education Otherwise it tastes stringy as it goes down. Expat The redoubtable Parry and his ironclad intestines feature in the television series, Family Tribe. Over the past 12 months, he has lived with some of the most remote tribes on Fantasy Games the planet; eating, sleeping and living the way they do, taking part in their rituals and Fashion adopting as many of their customs as he could. Features “It’s about getting in the zone, immersing myself in the culture of each area,” is how Food & Drink he describes it. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a Football tribal dude but that is now how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to Gardening do, showing them respect and hanging out with them. And they loved it. It’s all been an amazing journey, an incredible experience. I am grateful for it all.” Parry’s travels have looped across the globe. In the Arunachal Pradesh region of India, he was the Þrst white man in living memory to visit the Adi people, while with the cannibalistic Kombai tribe of West Papua, he used stone tools and ate (non-human) meals cooked with hot stones. While with the Suri in Ethiopia, he had his skin slashed with razor blades and thorns as part of an ancient ritual ceremony. “The women laughed at me. They thought I was a terrible wimp because I ßinched,” he says. Today in a London restaurant he clings on to a glass of champagne and looks shattered. We have sweet grilled scallops, delicious ribbons of ham and a hillock of spaghetti with crab and aubergine sauce all of which Parry dispatches lustily – and a bottle of wine which, amongst its many excellent characteristics, is not one which tastes stringy going down the throat. Insert to ENG1H
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    3 ITEM 2 New liferevealed in rainforests of the deep Sophie Tedmanson A rare species of stingray, a 2,000-year-old coral and extinct underwater volcanoes are among hundreds of discoveries found under the ocean by a scientiÞc expedition off the coast of Australia. Marine experts say that the discoveries shine a new light on what they say are some of the most biologically important oceanic habitats in the world. In the icy waters of a Southern Ocean marine park, 100 nautical miles off the coast of Tasmania, scientists found more than 270 new marine species — including Þsh, crustaceans, molluscs, sponges and corals — and 80 previously unknown seamounts or underwater mountains. The undersea mountains, which measured half a mile high and 15 miles (25km) wide, form “rainforests of the deep”. For the Þrst time scientists also laid eyes upon underwater canyons larger than the Grand Canyon in Arizona Scientists said that only a tiny proportion of Australia’s oceans had been explored in such a way and that they could only speculate on the biodiversity hidden under the water. The discoveries were made during two voyages in November 2006 and April 2007. Some of the oldest discoveries included 2,000-year-old living black coral, bamboo coral more than 300 years old, and Þsh about 200 years old. Carbon dating was used to determine the age of the deep-sea treasures. In total 123 underwater mountains were also revealed. Of the discoveries about 70 per cent had never been seen by humans before. A live stingray, from a species of which only one dead specimen had ever been found in Australian waters, was also captured, and a glass sponge, so delicate that it could not be brought to the surface without breaking it. © The Times 10/2008 Turn over! Insert to ENG1H
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    4 ITEM 3 Afghan Journey Inthis extract, Mansur and his friends are making a journey from Kabul, in Afghanistan, to a New Year Festival some miles away. Mansur spends the night with Akbar to make sure he wakes up. The next morning, before dawn, they are off. Mansur’s only luggage consists of a plastic bag full of Coke and Fanta cans and biscuits with banana and kiwi Þlling. Akbar has a friend with him and everyone is in high spirits. They play Indian Þlm music and sing at the top of their voices. Mansur has brought his treasure with him, a western cassette, Pop from the 80s. ‘Is this love? Baby, don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more’ resounds out into the cool morning. Before they have driven half an hour Mansur has eaten the Þrst packet of biscuits and drunk two Cokes. He feels free. He wants to scream and shout, and sticks his head out of the window. ‘Ouhhhhiiii! Here I come!’ They pass areas he has never before seen. Immediately north of Kabul is the Shomali Plain one of the most war-torn areas of Afghanistan. Here bombs from American B52s shook the ground only a few months ago. ‘How beautiful,’ Mansur shouts. And from a distance the plain is beautiful, against the backdrop of the mighty snow-clad Hindu Kush mountains that proudly rise up to the sky. Mansur stares in silence at the awful villages they pass. Most of them are in ruins and rear up in the landscape like skeletons. The remains of twisted tanks, wrecked military vehicles and bits of metal whose purpose Mansur can only guess at, lie thrown around. A lonely man walks behind a plough. In the middle of his patch lies a large tank. He walks laboriously around it – it is too heavy to move. The car drives fast over the potholed road. Mansur tries to spot his mother’s village. He has not been there since was was Þve or six. His Þnger constantly points to more ruins. There! There! But nothing distinguishes one village from another. The place where he visited his mother’s relatives as a little boy could be any one of these heaps of rubble. He remembers how he ran around on the paths and Þelds. Now the plain is the most mined place in the world. Only the roads are safe. Children with bundles of Þrewood and women with buckets of water walk along the side of the road. They try to avoid the ditches where the mines might be. The ditches are full of wild, dark-red short-stemmed tulips. But the ßowers must be admired at distance. Picking them would be risky. Akbar is having fun with a book published by the Afghan Tourist Organisation in 1967. ‘“Along the roads children sell chains of pink tulips”,’ he reads. ‘“In the spring cherries, apricots, almond and pear trees jostle for the attention of the traveller. A ßowering spectacle follows the traveller all the way to Kabul”.’ They laugh. This spring they spot a lone rebellious cherry tree or two that have survived bombs, rockets, a three-year drought and poisoned wells. ASNE SEIERSTAD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT-HOLDERS AND PUBLISHERS ITEM 1: JAN MOIR, Do you really want to be in our tribe? Daily Telegraph on-line (2005) The Daily Telegraph Photo: Image of Bruce Parry, ©Telegraph Media Group Limited 2004/Christopher Cox ITEM 2: SOPHIE TEDMANSON, New Life revealed in rainforests of the deep, (The Times), 2008 ITEM 3: ASNE SEIERSTAD (2002) Reproduced from The Bookseller of Kabul by ASNE SEIERSTAD with kind permission of Virago, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group. Copyright © 2009 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved. Insert to ENG1H