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Nesrine-Cambridge Primary Checkpoint - English (0844) April 2022 Paper 1 Insert&Question
Nesrine-Cambridge Primary Checkpoint - English (0844) April 2022 Paper 1 Insert&Question
ENGLISH 0844/01
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Paper 1 Non-fiction April 2022
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INFORMATION
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• You may annotate this insert and use the blank spaces for planning. Do not write your answers on
the insert.
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Text A
Want to be an astronaut? Of course you do. Who wouldn’t want to float around in
space, gazing back at our gorgeous blue planet in the distance and zooming to
work on a speeding rocket? But it can be tough out there. Have you got what it
takes to fly in space?
What is an astronaut?
Into space
But getting to the Karman line is a problem. Not many people have spaceships,
as they’re the most expensive form of transport there is. Luxury cars like Rolls 15
Royces? Private jets? They’re dirt cheap compared to your average spacecraft.
Who’s paying?
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Text B
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard was the second person, and the first American, in space. In the late
1940s, he became a test pilot. Then, in 1959, he was one of the first seven
astronauts chosen by NASA* to train to go into space.
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard went into space for the first time, on a spaceship
called Freedom 7. There was just enough room for one person on board. On this 5
flight, Shepard did not circle the Earth. He flew 185 kilometres high and came back
down. The flight lasted about 15 minutes; it was a great success!
Experimenting in space
Shepard was the commander on his second spaceflight, which was on Apollo 14.
The other astronauts on this mission to the moon were Stuart Roosa and Edgar
Mitchell. On 15 February 1971, Shepard and Mitchell landed part of their spaceship 10
on the moon, while Roosa kept the main ship orbiting around the moon. Shepard and
Mitchell walked on the moon, did science experiments there, and collected over 45
kilograms of moon rocks. Shepard also surprised everyone by suddenly producing a
golf club and becoming the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon! He
demonstrated how far the ball would go in the moon’s low gravity – so, in a way, that 15
was science, too!
After Alan Shepard flew on two space missions, he then worked as the head of the
Astronaut Office. He left NASA in 1974, but continued to be involved in exploration by
raising money to train new astronauts.
Glossary
*NASA: the North American Space Agency, which is the space organisation of the
USA
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Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every
reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the
publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity.
To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge
Assessment International Education Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download
at www.cambridgeinternational.org after the live examination series.
Cambridge Assessment International Education is part of Cambridge Assessment. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of the University of Cambridge
Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is a department of the University of Cambridge.
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ENGLISH 0844/01
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Paper 1 Non-fiction April 2022
1 hour
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You must answer on the question paper.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Use a black or dark blue pen.
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• Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes at the top of the page.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
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• Do not write on any bar codes.
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• The total mark for this paper is 50.
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• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
• The insert contains the reading passages.
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Section A: Reading
Read Text A, an informal report in the insert, and answer Questions 1–11.
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2 Give a short quotation from the first paragraph to show that an astronaut’s job
is not easy.
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3 Look at this sentence: ‘If you fly straight up from Earth, you’ll get to space
eventually.’ (Line 7)
What is the sentence above an example of? Tick () one box.
an imperative
a conditional
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‘…there’s a blanket of gases (the Earth’s atmosphere) which gets thinner until
it fades into nothing.’ (Lines 8–9)
(a) Why have brackets and dashes been used in these phrases?
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(b) What effect does the writer achieve by using dashes instead of brackets?
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6 Give a phrase from Text A that means the same as ‘very low-priced’.
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8 Find a phrase from Text A that means the same as ‘it’s unlikely to happen
soon’.
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[1]
Complete this table of the features of informal writing with examples from
Text A.
(i)
Use of the second person
(ii)
who’s, wouldn’t, don’t
(iii)
Use of questions
[3]
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a school dictionary
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13 Which one of the sentences below about Alan Shepard’s first space flight is
true?
Tick () one box.
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14 What are the names of the two spaceships Alan Shepard flew in?
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a recount
a biography
an information text
a diary entry
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A quiet life
Life on Earth
A missed opportunity
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Section B: Writing
21 Imagine that a team of young explorers from your school has recently returned
from a successful trip to explore a remote place somewhere in the world.
• a mountainous region
• the bottom of a lake or sea
• a cave system
• a jungle area.
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Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every
reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the
publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity.
To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge
Assessment International Education Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download
at www.cambridgeinternational.org after the live examination series.
Cambridge Assessment International Education is part of Cambridge Assessment. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of the University of Cambridge
Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is a department of the University of Cambridge.
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