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    BAULKHAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL PERE Higher School Certificate 2010 Trial Examination English Standard and Advanced i Paper 1 General Instructions Total Marks: 45 ‘© Reading time ~ 10 minutes Section] Pages 1-6 + Working time ~ 2 hours 15 marks * Write using black or blue pen only Z ‘© Write your candidate number at the top | * Attempt Question 1 of each of your answer booklets ‘+ Allow about 40 minutes jor this section Section Page 7 15 marks © Attempt Question 2 + Allow about 40 minutes for this section section Li} 15 marks Pages 8-10 ‘+ Attempt Question 3 © Allow about 40 minutes for this section Section I 45 marks ‘etempt all parts of Question ii ‘Ailow about 40 minutes for His section, ‘Answer the question in writing booklet. Fryour answers you will be Fasessed on how well you: «demonstrate understanding of the Wt perceptions of belonging are shaped in and through texts * ateribe, explain and analyse the Teletonsbip between language, text and context Question 1 (15 marks) Examine Texts one, two, three and four carefully and then answer the questions on page 6 Text one - Visual text Question 1 continues on Page 3 gestion 1 (continued) axt two - Poem DEPARTURE FROM THE JUNGLE With my suitcase, I sit on the bench; Below me, on the steamer, Indians, Chinese, Malayans are shouting, Laughing loudly and trading their knick-knacks. Behind me, feverish nights and days Of glowing life, that even now Icarry - Carefully as treasures in my deepest thoughts, As though I still wet my feet in the jungle stream. Iknow many countries and cities are still waiting, But never again will the night of the forests, ‘The wild fermenting garden of the earliest world Lare me in, and horrify me with its magnificence. Here in this endless and gleaming wilderness I was removed farther than ever from the world of men- And I never saw so close and clearly ‘The image in the mirror of my own soul. HERMAN HESSE Question 1 continnes on page 4 Question 1 (continued) ‘Text three — Opinion Article extract - Read this and weep by Sam De Brito ! ‘This probably woa’t go down too well with my editor but sometimes I think we’d ail be better off if we stopped reading newspapers and watching the news: ‘You'd certainly be better off not reading this colunin ~ at least today. { Look at what we have to process daily: ‘global financial crisis, free-loading politiciens, rapes, wars, Damir Dokic. And socialites, Oh, socialites, they depress ‘me more than Matthew Johns. ! God knows [love writing this column — it pays me just enough to cover my rent and chest-waxing — but it does seem to be filled with pictures of every type of | person try to avoid in daily life. : 1 get the feeling some of you might even envy these people and their lifestyles, so i just flick back a page ‘and take a look at the pictures. Go on, I'll wait. 7 ‘Ask yourself whatsort of person goes out of & rainy Wednesday night just to { celebrate a moisturi ses about which scarf will match their thongs | for a party that starts at 6pm and finishes ‘at 87 So they can talk to a bunch of people Ht they saw the: night before at the launch of a low-carb beer or a shoe store? Who dresses up all purdy and agoni { ‘More to the point, what sort of person is jt who wants us to know that they go out : More vony Wednesday night? So much so they'll jostle for invites and then pose for pictures? | ‘This s a microcosm of one of the big problems with the media today: we constantly This sa mie gom show-offs and Joudmouths, people who mistake certainty for i wisdom, beauty for impostance, wealth for success. understand the irony of a social columnist writing these words ~ someont who is i paid to give their unsolicited (and many would say uneducated) opinion on the ' aid fluff — 0 in my defence I'll let you in on a secret about che media, ( We casi never stop talking. Or writing. Or taking pictures and filming things or weed all be out of a job. 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