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 Section R1 Reading (10 marks) Marks
For questions 1–5, read the following extract from an article and decide which Awarded
word (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap.

Axolotls

The Axolotl is a strange aquatic lizard-like animal which is (1) _______________ to the
lakes and canals of Mexico City. It is often described as a being like a large walking
tadpole and is even occasionally compared to a dinosaur. While it is not a dinosaur, it
is indeed very ancient. It is sometimes (2) _______________ known as the ‘Mexican

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Walking Fish’ although despite this classification, it is not a fish either but rather an
amphibian and a member of the salamander family. Its respiratory organs can be seen
(3) _______________ as a set of stalks on the side of its head. Axolotls should not be

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confused with other salamanders like mudpuppies and waterdogs, with whom they bear
a (4) _______________ resemblance. They have become a popular exotic pet due to their
unique morphology and remarkable appearance. They have the ability to

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(5) _______________ their limbs if amputation occurs, and the four-fold pigmentation

found in the species makes for some interesting varieties in their skin colour.

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1. A. national B. infectious C. primitive D. endemic

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2. A. spontaneously B. perniciously C. autonomously D. colloquially
3. A. exacting B. protruding C. contracting D. curtailed
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For questions 6–10, read a passage from The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
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and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best answers each question.

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He was a longish, leanish, fairish young Englishman, not unamenable, on certain sides, to
classification - as for instance by being a gentleman, by being rather specifically one of the
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educated, one of the generally sound and generally pleasant; yet, though to that degree neither
extraordinary nor abnormal, he would have failed to play straight into an observer's hands. He
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was young for the House of Commons, he was loose for the army. He was refined, as might have
been said, for the city, and, quite apart from the cut of his cloth, he was sceptical, it might
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have been felt, for the church. On the other hand he was credulous for diplomacy, or perhaps
even for science, while he was perhaps at the same time too much in his mere senses for poetry,
and yet too little in them for art. You would have got fairly near him by making out in his eyes
the potential recognition of ideas; but you would have quite fallen away again on the question
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of the ideas themselves.

The difficulty with Densher was that he looked vague without looking weak - idle without
looking empty. It was the accident, possibly, of his long legs, which were apt to stretch
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themselves; of his straight hair and his well-shaped head, never, the latter, neatly smooth, and
apt, into the bargain, at the time of quite other calls upon it, to throw itself suddenly back
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and, supported behind by his uplifted arms and interlocked hands, place him for
unconscionable periods in communion with the ceiling, the tree-tops, the sky. He was in short
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visibly absent-minded, irregularly clever, liable to drop what was near and to take up what was
far; he was more a respecter, in general, than a follower of custom. He suggested above all,
however, that wondrous state of youth in which the elements, the metals more or less precious,
are so in fusion and fermentation that the question of the final stamp, the pressure that fixes
the value, must wait for comparative coolness. And it was a mark of his interesting mixture
that if he was irritable it was by a law of considerable subtlety - a law that, in intercourse with
him, it might be of profit, though not easy, to master. One of the effects of it was that he had
for you surprises of tolerance as well as of temper.

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 He loitered, on the best of the relenting days, the several occasions we speak of, along the Marks
part of the Gardens nearest to Lancaster Gate, and when, always, in due time, Kate Croy came Awarded
out of her aunt's house, crossed the road and arrived by the nearest entrance, there was a
general publicity in the proceeding which made it slightly anomalous. If their meeting was to
be bold and free it might have taken place within doors; if it was to be shy or secret it might
have taken place almost anywhere better than under Mrs. Lowder's windows. They failed indeed
to remain attached to that spot; they wandered and strolled, taking in the course of more than
one of these interviews a considerable walk, or else picked out a couple of chairs under one of
the great trees and sat as much apart - apart from every one else - as possible.

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6. In sentence 1, the young Englishman is described as being
a. the ideal gentleman.

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a. He is ill-suited to most jobs.
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8. What is meant by the word ‘unconscionable’ in the second paragraph?

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d. especially tedious

9. Which of these descriptions best suits Densher?

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a. He wears his heart on his sleeve.

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10. Why does Densher loiter in the Gardens?

a. He cannot conduct his meeting anywhere else.
b. He wants to make sure he is not late for an interview.
c. He is hoping the meeting seems uncoordinated.
d. He wishes to stay in the shade of the trees.
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 Section R2 Reading (10 marks) Marks
There are fifteen headlines below and ten short news stories on the next page. In Awarded
the answer grid below the headlines, match each story letter with the best headline
number. There are five headlines you do not need.

1. UNWELCOME GUESTS IN LOCAL POOL

2. VIRTUALLY SOAKED

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4. A SLIPPERY SECRET AGENT

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5. LEFTOVERS LURE BEASTS TO THE WATER

6. MAN AND ‘BEST FRIEND’ REUNITED

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8. MAN SURVIVES TASTER SESSION

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9. THE COPY-CAT PHOTO SNAPPER

10. ESCAPE TO VICTORY ALL OVER AGAIN

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12. INCREASED NUMBERS FOR SUB-ZERO ACTIVITY

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14. ACCOLADES FOR YOUNG ENTREPENEUR

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15. A REMOTE CHANCE OF SUBAQUATIC SURVEILLANCE

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Match the number of the headline to the letter of the article:
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51-year-old South African diver, Rainer Schimpf,
got more than he bargained for last month when
diving to film the famous Sardine Run off the coast
of Port Elizabeth. While being filmed swimming
alongside the annual migration swarms of sardines,
Schimpf was captured by a feeding whale. Luckily
for him, he was released quickly as the whale must
have realised he didn’t taste like an average
sardine!
Over 400 hundred swimmers have entered this year’s Marks
International Ice Swimming Championships in Russia. Awarded
This extreme sport is in its 3rd year of competition and
is growing every time. The first year saw only 52
entrants test themselves in the icy waters. The
‘swimming pool’ is actually carved from the ice crusts
on Lake Semyonovskaya, and has a temperature of
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The distraught owner of a five-year-old Labrador technology is now being developed to let them go
lost at sea was overjoyed when a group of passing underwater. Researchers at Oakland University in the

sailors managed to rescue his pet from the water.
Noodle, the Labrador, had fallen off the ferry he
and his owner were travelling on between
Mediterranean islands. The sailors spotted Noodle
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US have developed a prototype that flies, lands on
the water’s surface and can be controlled to
submerge too. These researchers recently won a $1m
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paddling in open water and took him to shore, to a greater understanding of our oceans.

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where his ecstatic owner was found via an online
campaign.

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Everyone loves a water slide when they visit a
theme park. But how about a water slide where you
don’t get wet? The world’s first ‘reality’ water slide
has opened in Germany and is proving a popular
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choice amongst thrill seekers. The Space Glider is
located in Europe’s biggest water park and gives
riders the chance to swim amongst the not-so-real
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this month. However, it does not take the form most
would expect, as it is, in fact, a Beluga whale being
used for military purposes. Fishermen had seen the
friendly whale often approaching their boats and
noticed a harness around it. On inspection, they
discovered an attached camera and found out that
they were being trained and used for espionage.

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A new kind of robot is set to take to the water and
Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps, has recently taken
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help us monitor our oceans more effectively. The

part in a 100-metre race unlike any he has swum
Soft Robotic Fish, SoFi for short, has been built by
before: racing against a shark. The gold medalist was
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US scientific AI laboratory because underwater

asked by The Discovery Channel to promote Shark
cameras, operated by humans, nearly always
Week and took to the waters to race a computer-
disturb sea creatures. This remote-controlled robo-
generated version of a Great White. Whilst he
fish has fins and moves its tail to swim emulating its
managed 38.1 seconds, the infamous predator beat
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fellow fish by swimming alongside them. The

him by 2 seconds.
subsequent images caught are exceptional say
researchers.

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Swimming pigs have been seen cooling off in the technology to warn swimmers about dangerous rip
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Bahamas. These tropical porkers regularly take dips tides, has been invented by an 18-year-old
in the crystal clear seas around a tiny Bahamian Australian. The part-time lifeguard and high school
island called Big Major Cay, known locally as Pig
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student, Maddison King, designed the special buoy as

Island. They are the only residents of the remote part of a Design Technology class. It lights up to warn
paradise isle and swim for the morsels of food where these tides are forming. Unsurprisingly, she
thrown into the sea by passing yachts and tourist has won a Young Scientist Award and plans to bring
cruise boats. her invention to market soon.

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 Section R3 (10 marks) Marks
Read the following sentences and write ONE word only in each gap to complete the idiom. Awarded

1. His idea went down like a lead ____________________ at the meeting so he

decided to scrap it.

2. Patricia got angry and saw ____________________ when she heard that she had

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3. The holiday cottage was off the beaten ____________________. We had real
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4. Losing his job turned out to be a ____________________ in disguise.

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5. I don’t care whether he stays or goes. It’s no skin off my ____________________.

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9. The world is your ____________________. You can do whatever you want.

10. I have been feeling on top of the ____________________ since I started doing
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 Section W2 Use of English (sentence transformation) (10 marks) Marks
Write a new sentence which is as close to the meaning of the given sentence as Awarded
possible, using the word or phrase given. You may not change the word or phrase
in any way.

1. I think it’d be a good idea if you booked a hotel first. (better)

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The trainees

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 Section W3 Writing For Results (10 marks) Marks
Write an email of about 80-100 words in response to each of the following Awarded
situations, A and B.

A. You recently stayed in an expensive holiday cottage where the condition and
facilities were very poor. Write a formal email of complaint to the owners of
the cottage.

B. You recently let your friend use your car while you were away on holiday. The

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complaining about his or her treatment of your car.

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 Section R4 (10 marks) Marks
Read this passage about schooling and answer all the questions in your own words. Awarded

Montessori Schooling

Montessori education was invented by Maria Montessori, who founded several schools which
deliver her specialised method of education. It adopts a child-centric approach to educating
children in specialist schools: schools which were first developed over a century ago.
Montessori believed that whilst the education of all children is a human right, the personal
choice of establishment for any parent is sacrosanct.

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Montessori began to develop her educational philosophy in 1897, after first training as a
physician at medical school, but didn’t establish a school underpinned by her specific
pedagogy until 1907. Her background in medicine had evolved from caring for and analysing

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the needs of children who were deemed to be both mentally or physically disabled, to the
Orthophrenic School, which cut across the educational and medical fields allowing her to
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centred completely on the individual child. While to some this may suggest children are
‘free-range’ and allowed to roam recklessly in a school room, the actual learning area is so

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prepared as to inaugurate the development of independent self-awareness. Montessori
believed that being so young and bare of all predilections, children could be left to their
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own tendencies, which would lead naturally to self-construction. She also felt that the
innate impulses in a child’s mind set them on the path of true comprehension and learning
in that prepared environment. She had observed for many years the psychological
tendencies of a child and developed her method on this basis. In addition, the ages and
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stages were carefully observed and the individuality of each child supported appropriately
but classes were run as mixed, creating an equilibrium between maturity and ability.
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There was a discrepancy between Maria Montessori’s methods in her first school ‘Casa de
Bambini’ in Rome and the Italian state education, which had a pre-existing system focused
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purely on the necessity for children to become literate. The Montessori schools engaged in
a much more sensory approach where less emphasis was placed on receiving an education
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submissively by rote as the mainstream systems did, and the role of the teacher was more
of a facilitator. There was much more focus on movement and engaging the five senses by
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using a variety of stimuli in the classroom. Such examples of these used back then in the
original environment and designed by Maria Montessori herself would have an aesthetic
nature to them and be objects that could be manipulated and were designed to support
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conceptual sensations. The uses of these objects in one such activity were aimed to build
up the child’s motor control and hand-eye co-ordination by introducing them to the cycle
of selecting, initiating, completing and tidying up objects once an activity is finished.
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Much may have changed globally since then but it is certainly still the status quo that
mainstream modern systems of education deliver a specific curriculum with little real focus
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on the individual sitting in a class of many; attainment is the goal and is meticulously
measured. It is estimated that there are over 24,000 dedicated Montessori schools currently
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open in the world today; some independent, some operating in government-funded

institutions. Where this is the case, both state and public schools seemingly share the
recognition that a pupil’s natural desire to learn must be fostered in the first instance
before true learning can evolve. Some parents truly believe in the Montessori way and
invest accordingly; others stay firmly fixed in traditional systems at the mercy of stressed
out teachers.

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 Section R4 Part One (10 marks) Marks
Replace each phrase or word with another phrase or word of your own so that the Awarded
article still reads correctly, both grammatically and in the sense of what is said.
The words or phrases are all underlined in the article so that you can find their
context easily. One of them has been done for you as an example. There may be
more than one way of answering; answer the way you think best. Write ONE word
or phrase only.

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Summarise in no more than 150 words the benefits of a Montessori education

according to the article. You may use the space below to make notes. These
notes are for your own use and are not marked by the examiner. Write your
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 Section W4 Writing (25 marks) Marks
Use your own ideas and, if you wish, the notes below and ideas from the article in Awarded
section R4, to write a structured composition of between 300 and 350 words on the
following topic:

All children learn differently and education systems should be built to recognise
this. States should provide a variety of different schools with different teaching
methods and parents should be able to choose which one their child goes to.
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 implications for society
 value of choice

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 other education problems

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