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Year 10 English Language
Reading and Transactional Writing
June 2017
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Year 10 English Language
ANSWER BOOKLETReading and transactional writing
June 2017
2 Hours and 15 mins
Answer all the questions in Section A
Answer ONE question in Section B
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SECTION A: READING
Read the following passages carefully and then answer Section A in the Question Paper
Text one: Look who it is! Alan Carr, My Story
I remember running and touching a tree, any tree, and then running back to my father and so on. I seemed to have spent my whole childhood breathless, touching trees. If there weren’t any trees available, Dad would use bollards. There would be no escape from the tree touching.
Whilst I was running, I would see all the other kids in the park having a kick-around, taking it in turns to be in goal, playing keepy-uppy, their playful laughter and squeals of joy slowly being drowned out by Dad’s ‘One, two, three, four! Quicker, mover quicker, you useless lump!’ from the other side of the park. He would shout using the same booming voice with just a hint of Geordie that he used every Saturday on the touchline on his own players. I would see them try to shout back, only to be blasted once again with that voice, the fools. It would be like arguing with a hand-dryer.
I first started running to try to dislodge some of the puppy fat. It would be just a leisurely run around the fields, nothing too strenuous. Strangely, although I hated sports, I did enjoy running; bounding along country lanes seemed to clear my head and sharpen my mind. I remember running after school around a field at the back of my house and as I approached the winning line, which was in fact an old tree with a dangly branch, who did I spot emerging from behind a bush? Yes, my father, with a stopwatch.
‘That’s 29 minutes, 38 seconds. If you’d pushed yourself a bit harder on that hill, you would have made 28 minutes easy.’Not only had he been spying on me running, I later found out that he tried to enrol me in the local boys’ running team, the Overstone Phoenixes, without me knowing.
‘What’s the point of running if you’re not up against someone?’ he would say. ‘There’s no point, Alan, if there’s no challenge!’
I was a twelve-year-old spectacle wearer with a weight problem. The only challenge I had was finding shorts with an elasticated waist. As my father would tell me, football wasn’t about scoring goals; it was about discipline and fitness.
‘Alan, see those kids over there?‘What the ones laughing and having fun?’‘They’ll never be any good because they’re just kicking the ball about. We’re getting your thighs built up, so they will protect your knees and you won’t get arthritis in later life.’
Dad sure knew how to inject a bit of fun into the proceedings. Arthritis prevention anyone? Apparently, if I followed dad’s exercise routine and did the relevant number of sit-ups every day, I would become a top professional footballer, an athlete. Well, that was the plan anyway.
To be frank, dad put me off playing football. Obviously I realise you have to do the groundwork, and put the effort in to succeed in your chosen field, but what he didn’t understand was that a child has
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to be tempted into it in the first place. It is the exhilaration of scoring a goal that enchants a seven-year-old, an exhilaration that would then hopefully blossom into a career. No-one becomes a pilot because they’d enjoyed a nutritious in-flight meal; no, they had to want to fly the plane. My father had inadvertently managed to extract all the fun out of Games for me; on that playing field it was all work, work, work with him.
School didn’t make it any better. Physical Education is the only lesson on the school syllabus where you don’t get any help if you’re not good at it. Physical it is; Education it isn’t. No arm around your shoulder, no comforting word from a teacher, just a great big dollop of contempt and sarcasm. Can you imagine the headlines if little Susie in English couldn’t spell scissors, and so was forced to do an extra lap of the Library in her vest and pants and then have a thwack from a wet towel?
You can see why kids today don’t want to exercise and would rather sit at home playing martial arts games on their Nintendo. I wish I had done that.
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Text two: A Chinese Cinderella
Growing up in a wealthy family in 1950s Hong Kong, Adeline Yen Mah should havehad an enviable childhood, but she was rejected by her dominating stepmotherand despised by her brothers and sisters. She was sent to a boarding school andleft there. In this extract from her autobiography she relates one of the fewoccasions when she went home.
Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again. Eight weeks more and it wouldbe the end of term … in my case perhaps the end of school forever.Four of us were playing Monopoly. My heart was not in it and I was losing steadily.Outside it was hot and there was a warm wind blowing. The radio warned of apossible typhoon the next day. It was my turn and I threw the dice. As I played, thethought of leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistenttoothache.‘Adeline!’ Ma-mien Valentino was calling.‘You can’t go now,’ Mary protested. ‘For once I’m winning. One, two, three,four. Good! You’ve landed on my property. Thirty-five dollars, please. Oh, goodafternoon, Mother Valentino!’We all stood up and greeted her.‘Adeline, didn’t you hear me call you? Hurry up downstairs! Your chauffeur iswaiting to take you home!’Full of foreboding, I ran downstairs as in a nightmare, wondering who had diedthis time. Father’s chauffeur assured me everyone was healthy.‘Then why are you taking me home?’ I asked.‘How should I know?’ he answered defensively, shrugging his shoulders. ‘Yourguess is as good as mine. They give the orders and I carry them out.’During the short drive home, my heart was full of dread and I wondered what Ihad done wrong. Our car stopped at an elegant villa at mid-level, halfway up the hillbetween the peak and the harbour.‘Where are we?’ I asked foolishly.‘Don’t you know anything?’ the chauffeur replied rudely. ‘This is your new home.Your parents moved here a few months ago.’‘I had forgotten,’ I said as I got out.Ah Gum opened the door. Inside, it was quiet and cool.‘Where is everyone?’‘Your mother is out playing bridge. Your two brothers and Little Sister aresunbathing by the swimming-pool. Your father is in his room and wants to see you assoon as you get home.’‘See me in his room?’ I was overwhelmed by the thought that I had beensummoned by Father to enter the Holy of Holies — a place to which I had never beeninvited. Why? …Timidly, I knocked on the door. Father was alone, looking relaxed in his slippersand bathrobe, reading a newspaper. He smiled as I entered and I saw he was in ahappy mood. I breathed a small sigh of relief at first but became uneasy when Iwondered why he was being so nice, thinking, Is this a giant ruse on his part to trickme? Dare I let my guard down?‘Sit do 40 wn! Sit down!’ He pointed to a chair. ‘Don’t look so scared. Here, take alook at this! They’re writing about someone we both know, I think.’He handed me the day’s newspaper and there, in one corner, I saw my nameADELINE YEN in capital letters prominently displayed.‘It was announced today that 14-year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl ADELINE JUN-LING
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YEN of Sacred Heart Canossian School, Caine Road, Hong Kong, has won first prize inthe International Play-writing Competition held in London, England, for the 1951—1952 school year. It is the first time that any local Chinese student from Hong Konghas won such a prestigious event. Besides a medal, the prize comes with a cashreward of FIFTY ENGLISH POUNDS. Our sincere congratulations, ADELINE YEN, forbringing honour to Hong Kong. We are proud of you’.Is it possible? Am I dreaming? Me, the winner?‘I was going up the lift this morning with my friend C.Y. Tung when he showed methis article and asked me, “Is the winner Adeline Jun-ling Yen related to you? Thetwo of you have the same uncommon last name.” Now C.Y. himself has a fewchildren about your age but so far none of them has won an international literaryprize, as far as I know. So I was quite pleased to tell him you are my daughter. Welldone!’He looked radiant. For once, he was proud of me. In front of his reveredcolleague, C.Y. Tung, a prominent fellow businessman also from Shanghai, I hadgiven him face. I thought, Is this the big moment I have been waiting for? My wholebeing vibrated with all the joy in the world. I only had to stretch out my hand toreach the stars.‘Tell me, how did you do it?’ he continued. ‘How come you won?’‘Well, the rules and regulations were so very complicated. One really has to bededicated just to understand what they want. Perhaps I was the only one determinedenough to enter and there were no other competitors!’He laughed approvingly. ‘I doubt it very much but that’s a good answer.’‘Please, Father,’ I asked boldly, thinking it was now or never. ‘May I go to universityin England too, just like my brothers?’ ‘I do believe you have potential. Tell me, what would you study?’My heart gave a giant lurch as it dawned on me that he was agreeing to let mego. How marvellous it was simply to be alive! Study? I thought. Going to England islike entering heaven. Does it matter what you do after you get to heaven?But Father was expecting an answer. What about creative writing? After all, I hadjust won first prize in an international writing competition!‘I plan to study literature. I’ll be a writer.’‘Writer!’ he scoffed. ‘You are going to starve! What language are you going towrite in and who is going to read your writing? Though you may think you’re anexpert in both Chinese and English, your Chinese is actually rather elementary. As foryour English, don’t you think the native English speakers can write better than you?’I waited in silence. I did not wish to contradict him. ‘You will go to England with Third Brother this summer and you will go to medicalschool. After you graduate, you will specialise in obstetrics. Women will always behaving babies. Women patients prefer women doctors. You will learn to deliver theirbabies. That’s a foolproof profession for you. Don’t you agree?’Agree? Of course I agreed. Apparently, he had it all planned out. As long as he letme go to university in England, I would study anything he wished. How did that linego in Wordsworth’s poem? Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.‘Father, I shall go to medical school in England and become a doctor. Thank youvery, very much.
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SECTION A: READING
Answer ALL the questions in this section.
You should spend 1 hour 30 minutes on this section
The following questions are based on Text One and Text Two in the extracts booklet.
Text One: Look who it is! Alan Carr, My Story
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SECTION B: TRANSACTIONAL WRITING
Answer ONE question from this section
You should spend 45 minutes on this section
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6 Books are better than television
Write an article for a magazine giving your views about this statement.
Your article could include:
The advantages and disadvantages of reading How it is being replaced by other forms of entertainment Your views on the subject
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7 Sports and Games are as important as other subjects at School.
You have been asked to write a speech to be delivered to a group of students about your views on this statement.
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The benefits of sport The negative aspects of school sport Your views on the subject
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