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    English (Standard) and (Advanced) Paper 1 — Area of Study 2007 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION ‘Total marks— 45 Sesion rags 6 sconral ttre Tout atts (05) + Amp Question 1 * Woikiog ine ~2 hows SEE rage + Wate ng bo bl pen ralenin 09 + Aenpt Qian 2 + Donot remove th extintio eer rom the out awe for is section 2p ONE question fom Questions 3-5 Allow aboot sates fortis secton STUDENT NUMBERINAME: Section I Total marks (15) Attempt Question 1 ‘Allow about 40 minutes fr tis section [Answer the question ona separate page or wring booklet, i provided, Tn your answers you will be assessed on how wel you 13 demonstrate understanding ofthe way perceptions of the journey are shape in snd through exis 1s descnbe, explain and analyse the relationship between language ext and context Question 1 (15 mats) Examine Texts one two, three and four carefilly ani then enswer the questions on age 6. Text one— Book cover (Question 1 continues on page 3 STUDENT NUMBERNAME. Question 1 (continued) ‘Text two — Biography extract ‘Adapted from The Right Stff, by Tom Wolfe (Chuck Yeager, an American Air Force plot, has lost power In is averaf He pushes the sidearm conto to bring down the nose ofthe ship. Nothing happens ‘She wont go down! .. He's dropping and the nose is sil pitched. well here it the ship snaps into a at spin. Yeager’s head ison the cuter edge ofthe cite, sping found, Hos whining around a tele rate. dnd what do Ido next? . there's not & ‘area thing left inthe manual or he bag of rcks or the righteousness of twenty years ‘of military fying. Chosen or damned! He hunches himself toa bal, just sit says ‘nthe manva, and reaches under the set forthe cinch ring and pulls. Hes exploded ‘out of the coe it with such force it’ like a concussion. He cant see «iam . jolt in the back... i's the seat separating from him and the parachute rig The seat floats nearby ». The butt ofthe seat, the underside, is facing him .. a red hole... the socket ‘where the jection mechanism has been atached .. I's dnbbling a charcoal red. the remains of the rocket propellant. I's glowing . its oozing out of the socket. and ‘ow the set is drifting above him .. into the chute lines! .. dribbling blling material ‘ut ofthe socket. Hes jerked up by the shoulders .. is the chute opening and the ‘canopy filling. in that very instant the material - i smachos ato the visor of his helmet... Sorvething slices through his left eye. He's Knocked silly. He cant see a ‘damned thing -. The burning aneps him to. His let eye is gushing blood .. He brumingl. there's burning liquid inside the helmet .. blood pouring out of his left eye and there's smoke inside the helmet .. Rubber. I's the seal between the helmet and the pressure suit. Its buming up .. A temendous whoosh . The whole left side of the helmet i fll of flames ... He choking. blinded .. The left side of his head is on fire. Hes suocating.. He jams hs band in trough the ole in the visor and tries to teste an air scoop with ito bring ir this mouth .. The flames .. Theyre all over it “They go to work on the glove whore it touches his fice. His daraned finger is ‘amin! «But he doesnt move t .. Gt some ae. Nothing else matters .. He has t0 tet the visor open. I ifs. Salvation! .. Now he can foel the pain . The dammed fingec!... Nearly down ..Ateifc wallop He's down. Hell! He's in ane pice! ‘Question 1 continues on page 4 2 STUDENT NUMBERUNAME. Inyour mnawers you willbe assessed on how well you {2 demonstrate understanding ofthe way perceptions ofthe journey are shaped in and ‘through texts 1 describe, explain and analyse the relationship between language, text and context Question 1 continued) ‘Test three — Poem extract “This extract comes from Five Visions of Captain Cook by Kenneth Slessor. 1In this section of the poem an old sea captain, Captain ome, recalls his memories of is rea voyage with Captain Cook, when Cook was killed. was not blindness picked his lsh away, ‘Nor want of sight made penny-blank the eyes (Of Captain Home, but that he lived ike this Inone place, and gazed elsewhere. His body moved ‘In Scotland, but is eyes were dazle-full, ‘Of skies and water farther round the world — ‘Air soaked with blue, so thick it dripped like sow ‘On spice-tree boughs, and water diamond-green, Beaches wind glitering with crumbs of gl, ‘And birds more scarlet than dachy's seal “That had come whistling long ago, and far Aveay. His body had gone back, “ere it sat drinking ram in Berwickshire, But not his eyes—they were left floating there al-round te earth, blinking at beaches milked By suck-mouth tides, foaming with ropes of bubbles ‘And hgehalfmoons of surf. Thus it had been ‘When Cook was carried on a sailor's back, Vengeance ina cocked hat, to claim his price, A prince in barter fra longo. [And then the trumpery springs of fato—a ston, ‘A musket shot, round of gunpowder, ‘And puzzled animals, killing they new not what Or why, but billing the surge of gootishanks Armoured in feathers, like enel birds: ‘Wild, childish faces, ling; «moment seen, “Marines with crimson costs and puts of smoke “Toppling face-down; and a knit of English ion Forged aboard ship, that had been changed for pigs, Given back to Cook between the shoulder blades. ‘There he had dropped, and the old floundeving sea, ‘The old, fambling, wiles love-enemy, Head taker his breath, last office of alt water Question 1 continues on page 5 “STUDENT NUDABERINAME: Question 1 (continued) ‘Text four —Sea journal extract ‘Written on board the ship, Julia G. Tyler, ‘during a voyage from New York to Hong Kong -by Ruth B. Bradford “Tuesday, Jan. 7 ‘The storm stil rages with increased violence, Had "white squall” his momsing, which the captain says was th hardest one he ever saw. He took me up the companion way Jock att for half «minut, andi ally seemed as if nothing could stand before it The spenker parted and flew to ribbons and gave way and came down othe deck with crash I was glad I wasn't under it It was expected every minute tht the foretop mast Would go, as itis mac the worse forthe wear already. Presently a erash came. All ‘howght id gone, and they sent for an axe to cutaway the mizzen rigging. but it proved tobe something else. The sca looked like a great boiling, steaming caukrea. "The wind joa picked up the waves and blew them to pleves so that we eould ‘one yard ahead ofthe ship or around ber. The man at the wheel was lashed oi, ad be ‘was washed away, down against the Ie al. Fortunately forthe ship, the violence of| the storm was soon spent. She could not ave stood it much longer. We rolled most tveflly. Most ridiculous and lnighable scenes are constantly being performed in the Cabin | wish that some of our fiends could ust have peeped down through the skylight ‘ver our diane able and watched us as we dined, , Uncle Joln, the captain, and Mrs. Cooper would not venture to the table; but th rest of us did. Soup was dispensed with, as tht could no be thought of. We had roast, pork, Me, De Silver carved. The veselgaveavoll, away went his chair rom under hima He disappeared under the table; and the roast pork, with the carving fork sticking straight up in lew over bis head. Th potatoes rlled out ofthe dish onto the or, bread and other things following suit. Me De Silver and the meat were at lst picked ‘up, and he proceeded with his caving Oli picked up some potatoes off the lear and ‘indy put them on my plate. [scraped the thick ofthe dit off and ate them, the rest

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