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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

(1) This paper consists of two parts (A and B). Students should attempt Part A. ln Part B, you should attempt either Part B1 (easy section) OR Part B2 (difficult section). Students who attempt Parts A and B2 will be able to attain the full range of levels, while Level 4 will be the highest level attainable for students who attempt Parts A and B1.

(2) Write your Candidate Number in the space provided on the appropriate pages of the Question-Answer Book upon the announcement of the start of the examination.

(3) Enter your answers in the Question-Answer Book in the correct spaces provided. Answers written in the margins will not be marked.

(4) Blacken the appropriate circle with a pencil to indicate your answer for multiple-choice questions. Mark only ONE answer to each question. NO MARKS will be given to questions with two or more answers.

(5) Supplementary answer sheets will be supplied upon request. You need to write your Candidate Number and mark the question number box. Then use a piece of string to fasten all of the extra sheets INSIDE the Question-Answer Book.

(6) Put down your pen and stop work altogether upon the ‘Time is up’ announcement. No extra time will be given to students for sticking on barcode labels or filling in the question number boxes.

(7) The Question-Answer Book will be collected at the end of the examination.

lNSTRUCTIONS FOR PART A

Attempt ALL questions in Part A. Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise stated.

HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION

MOCK TEST 2ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1

PART AReading Passages

1 hour 30 minutes(for both Parts A and B)

1 Book 5 • Set ABook 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 2 (Reading – Part A)

2Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 2 (Reading – Part A)

[1] On a cold but sunny day last month, a friendly football match took place in the southern German town of Herzogenaurach. The match was an attempt to heal the wounds of a bitter family argument that has split the town for 60 years. It has also fuelled the fortunes of two of the world’s most powerful sporting brands.

[2] ‘The split between the Dassler brothers was to Herzogenaurach what the building of the Berlin Wall* was for the German capital,’ says local journalist Rolf-Herbert Peters. The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago, but the bad feeling between Adidas and Puma is still obvious to anyone visiting the town.

[3] The two global brands were founded 60 years ago after brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler had a massive disagreement. They broke up their 25-year-old business and set up rival companies on opposite sides of the river Aurach. To this day the headquarters of these two companies, Adidas and Puma, still stand confronting each other on both banks.

[4] No one knows the reason for the brothers’ disagreement. The most widely believed reason is that Rudi had an affair with Adi’s wife, Käthe, for which Adi never forgave him. The argument divided the town – it decided which pubs its 23,000 inhabitants drank in, the butchers they shopped at, who cut their gravestones and which football team they supported.

[5] ‘There was a time when you’d have risked upsetting your family if, as an employee of one company, you married an employee of the other,’ says Klaus-Peter Gäbelein of the local Heritage Association.

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[6] As a business, Adidas is by far the bigger company. It employs 39,000 compared with Puma’s 9,000. But it is the nature of the Adi- and Rudi-driven rivalry that has given both firms their fighting spirit.

[7] ‘We have the fastest man in the world on contract,’ says Ulf Santjer, the spokesman from ‘underdog’ Puma, referring to Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. ‘Football world champions and top performers like Madonna wear our products – we’re not doing badly.’

[8] Though the rivalry split the town, the townspeople seem mostly grateful. ‘Without the row we would not now be home to these two global players,’ says Gäbelein.

[9] The brothers were continuing Herzogenaurach’s tradition as a centre of manufacturing when they decided to open shop jointly upon the end of WWI. Their father, Christoph, an experienced shoemaker, passed on the tips of the trade. Adi gathered the tools and equipment left behind by WWI soldiers and ‘shaped their first shoe, a cross between a carpet slipper and a running shoe’. Rudi helped by being responsible for ‘distribution and general management’, according to Rolf-Herbert Peters, author of The Puma Story.

[10] Today neither company is controlled by descendants of the dead brothers. Puma is owned by the French luxury goods maker PPR, while Adidas is owned by lots of small shareholders. Nevertheless, both companies still have their headquarters in Herzogenaurach.

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Adidas v Puma: the bitter rivalry that runs and runs– a German town remains divided 60 years after a falling-out between two brothers

PART A

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Text 1

* Starting in 1961, the Berlin Wall divided Berlin, Germany’s capital, and the rest of the country, between the communist East and the capitalist West.

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[11] Today, Adidas and Puma have production centres all over the world. Yet, that town of cobbled streets and half-timbered houses in southern Germany still matters to both companies. ‘It’s always good to have a heritage – it’s your history and your experience combined,’ says Kirsten Keck, Adidas’ spokeswoman.

[12] In fact, both businesses are keen about having a presence in the town, building luxurious ‘brand centres’ and showrooms. In a time of recession, the workmen finishing the Adidas complex, Laces, and Puma’s Plaza, are a welcome sight, and the message is clear: ‘We’re here to stay.’ What the town is crying out for, but will probably never get, is a shoe museum. ‘The companies would never be able to decide on a common story,’ says Gäbelein.

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[13] In the town’s cemetery where both Dassler brothers are buried, Adi’s granite gravestone lies in a bed of purple pansies. At the opposite end of the cemetery, Rudi’s final resting place is marked by an angel carved in stone.

[14] Before they died, the brothers may have reconciled. ‘In 1974, just six months before Rudi’s death, they got their drivers to take them to a secret meeting in Nuremberg for half a day,’ says Helmut Fischer, the peace match referee and Puma’s in-house historian. ‘But they could never tell their wives, and certainly not their workers, because it would have been bad for business.’

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Source: adapted from Kate Connolly’s ‘Adidas v Puma: the bitter rivalry that runs and runs’, The Guardian, 19 Oct 2009. © Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2009

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5Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 2 (Reading – Part B1)



PART B1Reading Passages


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PAPER 1PART B1



B1EASY SECTION



Refer to the General Instructions on Page 1 of the Reading Passages booklet.

lNSTRUCTIONS FOR PART B1

Students who choose Part B1 should attempt all questions in this part. Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise stated.


PART B1

Read Text 2 and answer questions 21-36 on pages 7-9 of the Question-Answer Book for Part B1.

Text 2

[1] What’s so fun about camping in the wild?

[2] Okay, I admit it is a bit of a challenge, especially when one has to deal with our unreliable British weather. As an experienced camper who has long battled Britain’s washout summer, I’ve learned to survive in bad weather. [3] People who ask questions of this sort usually find no pleasure at all in leaving their comfortable home to go to a campsite to build a tent and a fire. Anna, my wife, is a perfect example of this kind of comfort-loving person.

[4] So, imagine my initial response when Anna suggested checking into a five-star camping spot in the Lauterbrunnen Valley for a weekend. Organised and predictable Switzerland ... Really? I told Anna ‘no’ immediately. Checking into a campsite with a 24-hour store, a tailor-made tent and catering did not sound like camping. I pointed out to Anna that her idea of camping was really ‘glamping’, shorthand for ‘glamorous camping’, which has been around for quite some time, and is becoming popular again with celebrity adventurer reality shows.

[5] I also explained to Anna that sleeping in a tailor-made tent with all the modern conveniences and being waited on by a staff team defeats the purpose of going camping in the first place. Why pretend you’re camping when you are not? Camping means leaving behind those everyday conveniences and your normal routine. What you get in return is the true experience of simple pleasures, like watching the sun set over the mountains, telling stories round a campfire, and taking first bites of charred sausages and melting marshmallows cooked over an open fire.

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[6] Despite my protests, Anna got her way and one early summer day, we stepped off a train at Lauterbrunnen station. Here, laid out before our eyes was the postcard scenery of the Lauterbrunnen Valley, with the summits of the Jungfrau, the Mönch and the Eiger looking majestic in the background. Carved into the Swiss Alps with high steep rock faces on either side, the 297-metre high Staubbach Falls stands at the entrance to the valley, which is also home to six villages. The water from melting snow filled the air with a cool mist that instantly refreshed us after our tiring journey.

[7] It turned out that Anna had decided to take my advice and go for a real camping experience. The camping spread we checked into was far from luxurious. Camping Jungfrau is a popular campsite, but we were able to set up our tent in a peaceful area away from the camper vans and lodges. We barbecued our sausages as the sun set over the majestic mountains, and went to sleep that night to the sound of the Staubbach Falls.

[8] The next day we took a cable car up the mountain and followed the ski runs that took us to a hang-gliding spot. Our afternoon was fun-filled: we glided across the sky before exploring the Trummelbach Falls – thundering waterfalls hidden beneath the mountainside that we can only get to by an underground lift, mountain tunnels and narrow pathways. We were glad we had a good breakfast – Swiss cheeses and yummy hot chocolate – early in the morning, or we would not have been able to enjoy the adventure this much.

[9] This trip really surprised me – I discovered that camping is still fun even when you can feel your toes at night.

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An unusual camping trip


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Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth – Pam AyresOh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth,And spotted the perils beneath,All the toffees I chewed,And the sweet sticky food,Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

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When I think of the lollies I licked,And the liquorice allsorts I picked,Sherbet dabs, big and little,All that hard peanut brittle,My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,‘If you got a tooth, you got a friend’I was young then, and careless,My toothbrush was hairless,I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,I flashed it about late at night,But up-and-down brushin’And pokin’ and fussin’Didn’t seem worth the time … I could bite!

If I’d known I was paving the way,To cavities, caps and decay,The murder of fillin’sInjections and drillin’sI’d have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist’s chair,And I gaze up his nose in despair,And his drill it do whine,In these molars of mine,‘Two amalgam,’ he’ll say, ‘for in there.’

How I laughed at my Mother’s false teeth,As they foamed in the waters beneath,But now comes the reckonin’It’s me they are beckonin’Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

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Source: ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’ from The Works by Pam Ayres, published by BBC Books. © Pam Ayres 1992. Reproduced by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd.


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Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth – Pam AyresOh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth,And spotted the perils beneath,All the toffees I chewed,And the sweet sticky food,Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

I wish I’d been that much more willin’When I had more tooth there than fillin’To pass up gobstoppers,From respect to me choppersAnd to buy something else with me shillin’.

When I think of the lollies I licked,And the liquorice allsorts I picked,Sherbet dabs, big and little,All that hard peanut brittle,My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,‘If you got a tooth, you got a friend’I was young then, and careless,My toothbrush was hairless,I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,I flashed it about late at night,But up-and-down brushin’And pokin’ and fussin’Didn’t seem worth the time … I could bite!

If I’d known I was paving the way,To cavities, caps and decay,The murder of fillin’sInjections and drillin’sI’d have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist’s chair,And I gaze up his nose in despair,And his drill it do whine,In these molars of mine,‘Two amalgam,’ he’ll say, ‘for in there.’

How I laughed at my Mother’s false teeth,As they foamed in the waters beneath,But now comes the reckonin’It’s me they are beckonin’Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

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Source: ‘Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’ from The Works by Pam Ayres, published by BBC Books. © Pam Ayres 1992. Reproduced by permission of Sheil Land Associates Ltd.




PART B2Reading Passages



Refer to the General Instructions on Page 1 of the Reading Passages booklet.

lNSTRUCTIONS FOR PART B2

Students who choose Part B2 should attempt all questions in this part. Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise stated.

HKDSEENG LANG

PAPER 1PART B2



B2DIFFICULT SECTION



PART B2


Text 4

[1] ‘It’s cheaper than going on a safari in Africa, I’ll say that,’ Christine said. She was standing looking at the rolling plain where giraffes, gazelles and elephants paced leisurely close to the tent she was sharing with her husband, Jim. For the Claremont couple and more than 50 others, the Roar & Snore camp out at the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park was enlightening, fun and a little eerie. But not necessarily restful.

[2] ‘Oh God, where did I put my earplugs?’ my partner Wesla asked soon after bedtime, as we heard loud snoring coming from the tents nearby. ‘That’s going to be louder than the animals.’ But first: why were we here? Like Christine and Jim, we could not make it to Africa. So for Christmas, Wesla had given me a night at the 1800-acre park, inhabited by countless beasts and birds, and where our camp was marked by a moat.

[3] For $129 each (plus $35 for park admission), Wesla and I got a tent, dinner, breakfast, three after-hours walking tours and plenty of time with park guides during an adults-only edition of Roar & Snore. (Roar & Snore is also offered for youth groups and families with children.) After a two-hour drive from Los Angeles, Wesla and I pulled up to the park gates, checked in, and by 4.45 pm had spread out our sleeping bags in our tent. We had paid an extra $20 each for a special tent overlooking the nearly 70-acre East Africa habitat; cheaper tents were off the rim. Among our fellow campers were frequent park-goers. There were also those who were new to this, such as Tammy and her daughter Tara of Virginia Beach. They were visiting the park during Tara’s spring break from college. ‘We thought we’d do something different,’ Tammy said. And it certainly was.

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San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park offers overnight camping near wildlife

It may not be Africa, but it has its charms. – Jane Engle

[4] Below us grazed a dozen hoofed – what? After looking in vain for park signs, I asked Candace, one of several camp guides. ‘We’re a nonprofit,’ she said. ‘We put up as many signs as we can afford.’ She went on to tell me that the hoofed creatures were Thomson’s gazelles. And over there were giraffes, a few fringe-eared oryx, a regal-looking waterbuck, several African crowned cranes and, on the distant hills, African and Asian elephants. Closer in, near the camp’s dining patio, a couple of enormous white rhinos snuffled in the dirt. ‘They’re kind of gassy,’ Candace said, giggling. As it turns out, you can get too close to nature. Above us, swirling turkey vultures that I had mistaken for hawks cruised for roadkill.It was not the only time that night I would feel like prey.

[5] Speaking of food: a buffet of grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, veggie burgers, barbecued beans and green beans were served and eaten at a communal picnic table. After dinner we had two brisk after-dinner 90-minute hikes through the darkened park to look forward to.

[6] Grinning like excited 5-year-olds, we followed Candace, our guide, into adventureland. I felt like a child sneaking into the zoo after closing. When we passed a pacing female cheetah that glared at us with shining eyes, Candace said, ‘You just finished dinner. You smell like food.’ Luckily a moat and electricity-charged grass separated us.

[7] The lions seemed quite mild. In fact, according to Candace, they had been trained to open their mouths for tooth inspections. We were thrilled to see African black rhinos, antelope and more animals before returning to camp for a snack of cheesecake, cookies, hot cocoa and coffee. Then it was time for our second hike.

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[8] A highlight of the second hike was the African elephant area, where we gazed in wonder at a day-old calf and his mum. The tender scene made us forget about the immense power of these creatures, whose enclosure included concrete-filled steel pillars. Keepers never share the same space, Candace said. Not that elephants are untrainable. ‘These guys would do almost anything for alfalfa pellets,’ Candace said. As if on cue, one of them bellowed. ‘They heard the magic words,’ she said.

[9] By 11 pm, Wesla and I had turned in for a less-than-magical sleep. We were woken frequently by the snores from the tent next door and by campers sleepily walking past our tent to get to the bathroom. No matter. Shortly after 6 am the lions started roaring. In the still pre-dawn, their majestic roars filled the air, overcoming me with an unsettling feeling as I was reminded of the time when humans used to be the hunted.

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Source: adapted from Jane Engle’s ‘San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park offers overnight camping near wildlife’, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2009. Los Angeles Times, Copyright © 2009. Reprinted with Permission.

[10] The morning officially began with an alfresco breakfast – which Wesla particularly enjoyed as he loves eating outside. This was followed by a final hike, where we viewed Sumatran tiger cubs and their mum, endangered Californian condors, North American porcupines, bighorn sheep and other beasts. We had an up-close encounter with a baby alligator and a roadrunner as well.

[11] The Roar & Snore ended at about 9.30 am. Later, we rode the park’s Journey Into Africa tram, which rolled past the same savanna we had been hiking across the night before, as well as areas that we hadn’t seen. After the wake-up call by the lions, the tram ride seemed quite boring. We bumped into our fellow campers Tammy and Tara, who told us that they planned to make a trip to Disneyland for its Jungle Cruise. We wondered why.

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