Section A

Spend 30 minutes on this section.

Read the text and answer the following questions

1. Where did the robbery take place? [1mark]

Marley’s Jewellers.✔

2. How many times had the jewellers been robbed? [1mark]

Two times.✔

3. Write down the word which has the same meaning as “request” . [1mark]
Appealing.✔

4. Give a reason why the robbery would have been worse if it had taken place on any
other day. [1mark]
The rings and bracelets would be out of the safe and the robbers would have taken it..✔

5. Where were the rings and bracelets when the shop was robbed? [1mark]
They were in the safe.✔

6. How do you know that the robbers could have been carrying weapons?Give a quote
from the text. [1mark]
Who are believed to have been armed.✔

7. Who is the word “accomplice” referring to? [1mark]

To the other robber helping with the crime.✔ Or ‘It refers to the other robber.’
8(a) What was the colour of the getaway car ? [1mark]
Silver.✔

b) What was unusual about the appearance of the car ? [1mark]

They had distinctive french number plates.✔

9. Find one phrasal verb (a verb and a preposition) from para 5 that means “to state that
something is impossible or will not happen.” [1mark]
Ruling out the possibility. ✔

10. Suggest two things the police think might have happened to the car after it was seen
speeding away down Hind Street. [2marks]

1)They would have chased after the car. ❌ It might have still be somewhere in town.
2) They would have written down the car number plate and inform the other police. ❌ it could
have left the town along B154 Bisham Road.

11. Give one phrase from the sixth and last paragraph that shows how Lizzie Butler felt during
the robbery. [1mark]

Shaken up ✔

12. What did the police think that the robber might try to do with the stolen jewellery? [1mark]
They might offer the watches and chains under suspicious circumstances.

13. How did the police encourage people to come forward with information on the robbers?
[1mark]
There was a community reward for the information .✔
14 Number the sentences 1,2,3, and 4 to show the order of events that happened during the
robbery. [2marks ]

The robbery packed the jewellery . 2✔

The robbers escaped in a getaway car. 3✔

Mr Marley raised the alarm. 4✔

Mr Marley was setting up the display. 1✔

15. Give one word from the text that tells you that the police are ready to capture the robbers?

❌
[1 mark]
Lookout Keen

16. Type Y on two boxes to show which statements about the robbery are FALSE. [2marks]

Mr Marley as not able to identify the robbers

Only watches and bracelets were stolen. y✔

Miss Butler was threatened by one of the robbers.

The alarm went off as the robbers left the shop.

The stolen jewellery was kept in a leather bag. y✔

17 The reading insert is a newspaper article. Name two features of a newspaper article that
can be found in the text. [2marks]

1)Headline✔

2) Reporter’s name.✔ [that is by -line]

18. a) Rewrite the sentence below into indirect speech . [1mark]

“ We are very keen to catch these men before they have the chance to strike again,”said Rob
Day.

❌
Rob said we [they] are very keen to catch these man before they have the chance to strike
again. careless

b) Underline two adverbs in the sentence below. [1mark]

This was obviously✔ a very serious attack and although fortunately ✔nobody was hurt.