Name Pull out the sheet of reading texts from the middle. Read the texts and answer the questions, Male Female Testdate / / Date ofbirth 7 / Chronological age years ‘months Text type Questions | Marks ‘Strand Marks Fiction 118 [Ri B Non-fiction | 19-35 30 | Fe nz Total 760 | R3 a Ra RO RS. 2 i 4 R7 i Total 760 Standardised score ‘Age-standardisod score Hodder Scale score Reading ageIn this newspaper article, Lynn Barber writes that she ts supposed to clean up hher act when the grandchildren come to stay. No chance, she says. Bad granny “~ ~ 1 don't think Mother's Day existed in my childhood, or certainly not in the Barber household. My parents didn’t believe in. 5 sentiment, or celebrations. | only encountered the full horror when Thad children myself and they ‘would come home from nursery with some hideous heart-shaped 10 card saying they'd spent all week making it. Whereupon I would snort: “Don't they give you anything better to do? Can't they teach you ‘multiplication or something?” And then theyd go crying to Daddy and Td have to say, “Sorry, sorry, only joking.” and put the beastly cards on the mantelpiece to gather dust for a few weeks. 18 But worse, far worse, was that my mother-in-law really believed in celebrating Mother's Day, which led to tears and tantrums all round. My duties then included not only nagging the children to make cards, but also nagging my husband to produce something and hissing furtously: “Buying flowers at the garage on the way down doesn't 20 count!” That was bad enough, but then there was the year my mother- in-law presented the daughters, then aged four and stx, with shiny ‘white nylon Tshirts saying love my granny’, I tried all the usual threats, but eventually had to give them a fiver each to get them to wear them for the day. I swore then I would never be a granny. 25 ‘Well, now I am ~ it’s something that happens if you wait long enough - and it ain‘t too bad. In fact, it's the sunny uplands of parenting ~ the hugs and laughs without the nappy-changing. I go to ‘see my grandchildren every other weekend and occasionally have them to stay with me in London, though always with grave and usually 0 justifiable misgivings. They don't break that many things, though they io leave a sickly trail across the carpet; its more that my daughters lame me if the grandchildren hurt themselves. ‘This year for the first time I had them here for Christmas and thought I deserved some sort of granny medal for putting up a 35 Christmas tree. ‘Oh, Mum!” one daughter wailed, “You've put glass eRe eetd 20 Re ead ~Bad granny (pages ‘What is the purpose of the text? Tick two. fo entertain to persuade to inform to advise to warn What tone does the title ‘Bad granny’ set for the article? The title sets Tick one, ‘a setious tone. ‘a humorous tone. « cisapproving tone. a.crtical tone. iO? a22 ‘nat impression do you get of the writers parent Tick one. They engoged actively in commemorations ‘They expressed thelr emotions eosiy, ‘They were unenthusiastic about celebrating ‘They thought it important to show feelings. Look at lines 1-14. What is the writer's attitude towards teachers? Tick two, mocking sympathetic. derisive fufous appreciative ra inark CG)sf oo Look at lines 1-14, What criticism does the writer make of teachers? Look at lines 1-14, Put a tick in each row to show whether the statement is rue or false. The children ing the mother more sympathetic. ‘The children find the father more sympathetic. The children go to their father for comfort The chien tnd mother and father equaly sympathetic. The chien are indfirent fo thelr mother's comments. mark26 ; ‘ook at ines 15-24 what evidence is there to suggest that the children were reluctant to wear the ‘love my granny’ T-shirts? iss se Seine eee eee eee Look at lines 1-24. um up the main difference between the writer ond her mother in-law. paca cece gee 0c Siac a eee ese are a ‘mark28 (nat does the writer feel now she is @ granny? Tick one. Being @ granny is exactly what she expected Boing a granny is @ surprisingly good experience. Being a granny is not something she likes. Being a granny is something she hos fo put up with, ‘the hugs and laughs without the nappy-changing’ (line 27) Explain what this phrase conveys about being @ granny. fates espe eee eee abi cc ae ee ee/ fe: hnoe things that cause the writers misgivings, Look at paragraph § (ines 43-46) her ideas Identity two ways in which the writer uses stucture to communicate in this paragraph, Co ee, oS eee eo ee See ee ee ee i Re 2marks