COMPULSORY MOCK TEST 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE … 1/P1... · Aristo Educational Press Ltd. All Rights Reserved 2015 ... 10 Oct 2009 [word count: 922/all inclusive] ... Aristo Educational

1 Book 5 • Set A

HKDSEENG LANG

PAPER 1PART A A

COMPULSORY

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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 3ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1

PART AReading Passages

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

Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 3 (Reading – Part A)

2Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 3 (Reading – Part A)

[1] Whenever Shanghai-based Simon Chang eats out with his friends, they always assume that he prefers Western food. The fact is Simon adores Chinese food and likes to drink Chinese tea with his meals. What prompts these ideas? Simon is interracial.

[2] Chang, who left his native Taiwan at 18 to study in Washington, said that when it comes to food preferences, for example, his tastes tend to be Asian, but most people expect them to be Western. And it’s not just his eating habits that presumptions are made about. ‘Here in China, when I’m doing business with locals, the majority think I’m a foreigner and treat me differently.’

[3] Simon Chang has worked in Shanghai for the last eight years. He describes his Chinese-German heritage as an issue he has to deal with, for it has caused misunderstandings. As he notes, ‘What annoys me are the wrong ideas about me based purely on my appearance.’

[4] Having lived in both the East and the West, Chang considers Shanghai his second home. But, he muses, he will finally return to Taiwan, where he feels most at home.

[5] ‘It’s hard to put into words,’ he said. ‘I know my own identity, but there’s always going to be times when I feel conflicted about where I feel most comfortable, whether it’s my Taiwanese side, German side, or American side – and I’m okay with that.’

[6] Interracial children have been a feature of populations around the world for a considerable period of time. However, in China mixed-race marriages were rare until recent years, and interracial children are relative newcomers. Hence, social misconceptions about interracial children are common in China, though most Chinese attitudes towards interracial children are more

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approving these days. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of mixed-race relationships. Last year there were close to 2 600 registered in Shanghai – a 5 percent increase from 2007’s figures. In comparison, between the years 1970 and 1995, the number of interracial couples quadrupled in the United States, with one in 19 children nowadays being interracial. But regardless of geography, the challenges that interracial children face are similar. Their life experiences when growing up can be very different from those of their mono-racial friends.

[7] American-born Brian Strebel, whose mother is Chinese and father Irish and German, chose to leave his New York City job earlier this year to work in Shanghai. He very much enjoys weaving in and out of different cultural boundaries, but he notes that there are also situations that can be difficult to address. ‘It’s still hard to mix my friends,’ he said. ‘I have expat friends and Chinese friends, but they all like to do different things and talk about different things, so I tend to hang out with them separately, which isn’t ideal.’

[8] Interracial children typically go through their own adjustment period as they search for their identities. They then settle into a comfort zone, according to Laura Cowan, a counsellor who works for Shanghai Community Center and Shanghai American School. Once they find a balance between the two worlds they live in, they often excel quickly because of their early exposure to more than one language and culture, she explained. Others point to the fact that an early awareness of racial stereotypes helps these kids understand there are many different aspects to people, with race being only one of these. In fact, it is often noted that parents of interracial children are more aware of this. As a result, they better educate their children to appreciate the beauty of all races of people. This helps them embrace the richness and diversity of different customs, languages and cultures.

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PART A

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Text 1

Interracial families

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[9] Matthew Wong, 13, was born and raised in America before his family moved to Shanghai three years ago. He admits it took him a long time to get used to his new home, but that he now feels part of his community. ‘When I lived in the US, I didn’t know what it was like to be Chinese,’ he noted. ‘But since I’ve been here, I really feel like I am Chinese.’ Wong likes that his dual heritage allows him to have, in his mind, the best of both worlds in Shanghai.

[10] Interracial children appear to be more open to other cultures and experiences because they see different cultures interacting in their own homes, notes Laura Cowan. ‘They look at similarities as opposed to differences. The world is getting more globally-minded so those who can respect and get into the mindset of another culture are going to be successful.’

[11] Shanghainese Jenny Wang and her German husband Thomas Gronen believe this strong sense of cultural awareness must be taught to their

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children. Not only are their children learning two home languages (Chinese and German), the children are also learning to appreciate the world from a more international and open-minded perspective. ‘No one knows where we will go in five years; we probably won’t stay in China. Our children need to be internationally-minded because we want them to be able to go wherever they want in the future,’ explained Gronen.

[12] Terms such as ‘global citizen’ and ‘multi-cultural’ are very common nowadays, and the world’s population is far more mobile and as a result, far more diverse. Interracial relationships and families are a feature of modern times. Even though stereotypes and boundaries based on race unfortunately remain a factor, multi-racial families provide convincing evidence that different races can coexist in the same neighbourhoods, in the same homes, in the same cities and in the same countries.

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END OF READING PASSAGE

Source: adapted from ‘Getting into the mix’, China Daily, 10 Oct 2009

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5Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 3 (Reading – Part B1)



PART B1Reading Passages


HKDSEENG LANG

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 22-35 on pages 7-8 of the Question-Answer Book for Part B1.

Text 2

[1] Tourists are once again getting into trouble in Italy, with two American women caught carving their names into Rome’s Colosseum.

[2] The Californians, aged 21 and 25, snuck away from their tour group on Saturday and began scratching their names into the amphitheatre with a coin. They managed a ‘J’ and an ‘N’ around 8 cm high, before taking a selfie with their handiwork.

[3] Defacing the walls is strictly forbidden, as pointed out on signs in both English and Italian. But some visitors think little of breaking the rules as they view the crumbling monument differently from other top sites, said a spokesman for the Special Superintendency for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome.

[4] The Colosseum fell into disrepair after its heyday of hosting 73,000 spectators, watching gladiator fights to the death, and was at one point quarried for its stone. While the amphitheatre was completed in AD80, the section defaced on Saturday dates to the 1800s when the pope initiated restoration work.

[5] ‘It’s not an original wall but it’s nevertheless antique,’ the spokesman said.

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US tourists caught carving names into Rome’s Colosseum

[6] Antonio Camertoni, impersonating a Roman centurion outside the Colosseum, agreed the tourists were wrong to carve into the stone. ‘It’s a piece of cultural heritage. They don’t do it at home, but they do it here,’ he said, musing that perhaps the site should be closed to tourists altogether.

[7] The sheer number of visitors to the Colosseum, coupled with staffing cuts, makes it increasingly challenging to catch tourists behaving badly. Security was upped at the Colosseum and other sites last month, following threats against Rome by Islamic State, but the focus is on stopping terrorists not rule-breaking tourists.

[8] The Californians’ lawbreaking comes little over three months after a Russian tourist was caught carving a 25 cm letter into the Colosseum. The 42-year-old was given a four-month suspended prison sentence and a €20,000 fine, although owing to a lack of funds he has not paid the penalty.

[9] The Russian was the fifth person to be stopped for defacing the ancient monument last year, with others hailing from Australia, Brazil and Canada.

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Source: adapted from Rosie Scammell’s ‘US Tourists caught carving names into Rome’s Colosseum’, The Guardian, 8 March 2015. Guardian News & Media Ltd 2015.


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Text 3

[1] Until a few decades ago, hawkers were a common sight throughout our city, especially in high-density, low-income districts. They provided local communities with much-needed services and goods that were both handy and low in cost. Yet, government policies since the 1970s have sought to stamp out the trade.

[2] In the aftermath of World War II, hawking provided a way for the poor to make a fresh start in Hong Kong. Without the need to rent a shop or obtain a licence to operate, anyone could go into business right away. It was estimated that there were more than 70,000 unlicensed sellers in 1946.

[3] ‘I used go to the main street in San Po Kong at daybreak, waiting for night shift workers to emerge from the factory estates. The smell of hot steamed sticky rice would draw their tired bodies to my cart for a quick yummy recharge. With these regular customers, I would be extra generous with the servings, and the last bowls of rice would be reserved for them, should they turn up late,’ says Mr Chan, who is now in his 70s.

[4] In recent decades the government, citing food safety, environmental hygiene and pedestrian safety concerns, has sought to remove hawkers from the streets. In the early 1970s, they stopped issuing new hawker licences. In 2013, they started a buy-back programme, offering a one-time payment of $120,000 to hawkers willing to give up their licences. Policies such as these have led to a sharp decline in the number of licensed hawkers from 50 thousand in 1974 to only around six thousand today.

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Are Hong Kong’s street hawkers a dying breed?

[5] Under the current licensing regulations, licence holders are supposed to be on site to mind their stalls, in reality they are manned by ‘assistants’ as many of them are too old to work.

[6] ‘If someone wants to go into business for themselves as a hawker, there is no way to do so legally,’ explains a young woman standing over a tray of fashion accessories outside North Point MTR station, on the condition of that her name would not be used.

[7] Critics have also pointed out that with current concerns about rising poverty and youth unemployment, the government would do well to rethink their position on street hawking. Suggested alternatives, such as the food truck idea introduced by Financial Secretary John Tsang, have failed to secure a warm response from the public.

[8] ‘Many of the problems the government says are created by hawking, such as environmental issues, traffic congestion and crowded streets, can only get worse with these trucks,’ points out local food blogger Doris Lam.

[9] According to a Food and Health Bureau official, the government is now considering the idea of issuing new hawker licences. Let’s hope that it decides in favour of preserving this important feature of our local culture so that it can be enjoyed by all of us for years to come.

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Book 5 (Set A) • Paper 1 • Mock Test 3 (Reading – Part B1)




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] Body modifications may be the next evolutionary step. From night-vision contact lenses and prosthetic ‘digital eyes’, to 3D-printed skulls, implanted cameras, and brainwave sensors, we’re about to get a full load of innovation.

[2] Many of them have been around for quite some time; anyone with a hearing aid, or contact lenses, is already engaged in body modification, and is a cyborg of sort. But it’s now going to the next level.

[3] How about 3D printing for your face? In March, surgeons at the University Medical Centre in Utrecht, the Netherlands, successfully replaced a woman’s skull with a new one produced by a 3D printer. The patient, who had a rare condition that meant her skull thickened and gave her headaches and poor vision, made a full recovery.

[4] ‘Implants used to be made by hand in the operating theatre, using a sort of cement, which was far from ideal,’ surgeon Dr Bon Verweij told Dutch News. ‘Using 3D printing we can make one to the exact size. This not only has great cosmetic advantages, but patients’ brain function often recovers better than using the old method.’

[5] Trans-humanism isn’t just about appearance. Bulky night-vision goggles have been used for years by the armed forces, but scientists at the University of Michigan recently unveiled technology that could lead to contact lenses that allow the wearer to see in the dark.

[6] An ultra-thin light detector which can sense infrared wavelengths our eyes can’t see, it relies on the thermal vision produced by all animals, cars and gadgets.

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Technological implants will allow us to improve our bodily functions

[7] The difference between the old goggles and this new attempt is heat; the University of Michigan’s infrared detectors don’t require cooling. ‘We can make the entire design super-thin,’ says Zhaohui Zhong, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the university. ‘It can be stacked on a contact lens, or integrated with a phone.’

[8] Eye implants that record and transmit video already exist, while Second Sight last year launched its Argus II headset that attaches to the optic nerve to give electrical stimulation to the retina in blind people.

[9] Meanwhile, Fripp Design in Britain has managed to 3D print prosthetic eyes (in doing so reducing the cost from around HK$40,000 to just HK$125), and also has plans to 3D print ears and noses.

[10] Commercially available wearable cameras that record video of everything we see threaten to change the way we work, too. In May, orthopaedic surgeon David Isaac at Torbay Hospital in Devon, southwest England, used the voice-activated Google Glass gadget during a live operation.

[11] ‘The device itself is effectively a smartphone, head-mounted video camera and computer rolled into one, with an eye-level screen,’ Dr George Brighton, core surgical trainee and app inventor at Torbay Hospital, told the Western Morning News.

[12] ‘What’s exciting for medical education is that it allows surgeons to record and share their direct view of the surgical field. If, for example, you were performing a rare or complex procedure, you could seek the advice of experts anywhere across the globe while operating.’

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[13] The security forces are also becoming trans-human. London’s Metropolitan Police is conducting a proof of concept pilot scheme for what it calls Body Worn Video (BWV). The largest urban pilot of body worn video cameras so far, up to 500 devices are being deployed with specialist firearms teams across nine London boroughs. If it’s successful, there could be soon 20,000. The gadget in question is a 500 Taser Axon video camera which, according to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, helps officers with transparency and evidence. ‘It makes you open, it makes you accountable and then if something is said afterwards, you can check,’ he says.

[14] That’s vision sorted, but what about hearing? Elective auditory implants, for now, are designed to help restore the hearing of deaf or hard of hearing people, but once they become more sensitive than ‘normal’ hearing, we’ll all want them.

[15] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, has shown hearing aids powered solely by the human body, while ever more discreet ‘cyborg hearing’ is being made possible by companies like Cochlear.

[16] It has recently launched its BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid) 4 Attract system, which uses magnets to connect a sound processor to a titanium implant hidden under the skin.

[17] An experiment called Bottlenose by US-based Grindhouse Wetwear in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sees sonar, UV, Wi-fi and thermal information translated into a magnetic field that allows the wearer of an implant (in a finger) to ‘feel’ in the form of electric currents. Wearers can thus ‘sense’ when a Wi-fi network is nearby.

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[18] Impressive, but pointless, perhaps, which isn’t an argument that can be levelled against the concept of a mind-controlled electric wheelchair. That’s exactly what neuro-technology company Emotiv’s EPOC headset is all about, reading and using brain signals to help severely handicapped people get over the limitations of their bodies to operate a wheelchair hands-free.

[19] Preventing pain is what Professor Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in the US, is doing by wirelessly transmitting power to micro-implants in our bodies.

[20] It could allow doctors to treat diseases with electronics rather than drugs; using roughly the same power as a cellphone these sensors could be used to monitor and control heart or brain activity – and even deliver drugs and medicines to specific areas of the body.

[21] They’ve been called human evolution’s next step, but body modifications, implants, wearable electronics and other augmentations could soon be pushed to the next level with the addition of artificial intelligence. The machine-led age of the cyborgs has only just started.

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Source: adapted from Jamie Carter’s ‘Technological implants will allow us to improve our bodily functions’, South China Morning Post, 13 November 2014

END OF READING PASSAGE


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COMPULSORY MOCK TEST 3 ENGLISH LANGUAGE … 1/P1... · Aristo Educational Press Ltd. All Rights Reserved 2015 ... 10 Oct 2009 [word count: 922/all inclusive] ... Aristo Educational