PREMIER EDUCATION SOCIETY’S

TRINITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (IGCSE – A LEVEL)

MOCK TEST - II

Prepared on the basis of Model paper of:

Cambridge IGCSE
Cambridge Assessment International Education

FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH

Paper 1 Reading Passage 0500/01

7th January 2021

TIME: 2 Hours

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

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INSTRUCTIONS
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● Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
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INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 80.
● The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
● The insert contains the reading texts.

This document consists of 12 printed pages.

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PASSAGE A:
Read Text A, and then answer Questions 1(a)–(f) on this question paper.:
Read the web article given below about Dr. Dian Fossey: Renowned
Primatologist and Conservationist, and answer the questions that follow:
Dr. Dian Fossey, founder of the Karisoke Research Center in the Virunga
Mountains of Rwanda, initiated groundbreaking studies of mountain gorillas in
their natural habitat. Along with primatologists Jane Goodall and Birutė
Galdikas, she was known as one of Leakey’s Angels, chosen by anthropologist
Dr. Louis Leakey to study and observe great apes in the wild. Jane Goodall 5
studied chimpanzees, and Birutė Galdikas studied orangutans. Dr. Fossey
focused on the critically endangered and often misunderstood mountain
gorilla.

Dian was born on January 16, 1932 in San Francisco, California. An excellent
student, Dian had a strong emotional connection with animals from an early 10
age. After graduation, she moved to Kentucky and worked in occupational
therapy at a children’s hospital. Her interest in animals never waned though.
She longed to travel and learn about wildlife in other places around the globe.
After seeing photos from a friend’s trip to Africa, Dian decided that she
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In 1963, she spent her life savings, in addition to a bank loan, financing her
first trip to Africa. While there, she visited Olduvai Gorge. This was the
important archaeological site of Louis and Mary Leakey. Dr. Louis Leakey
spoke with Dian about the fieldwork that Jane Goodall was conducting in
Africa and impressed on her the critical nature of long-term animal studies. 20
After visiting with Dr. Leakey, Dian accompanied wildlife photographers into
the Virunga Mountains. Upon observing the shy mountain gorillas for the first
time in the wild, Dian resolved to return in the future to learn more about the
great apes.

In 1966, Dr. Leakey was able to secure funding for Dian to return to Africa 25
and begin a long-term study of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains.
Dian began her fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, regularly
recording the behavior of the gorillas as well as their social structure. She
observed that mountain gorillas live in small groups led by a silverback, an
adult male gorilla identified by the silver fur on his back. The small groups 30
also include other younger male gorillas, female gorillas, and baby gorillas. In
order to gain their trust, Dian imitated their behaviors such as scratching. This
process is called habituation.

In 1967, Dian was forced to leave her research post due to political conflict in
the Congo. She relocated to the mountains in neighboring Rwanda and 35
established the Karisoke Research Center. She continued her research among
the mountain gorillas and in 1970 appeared on the cover of National
Geographic magazine. The coverage resulted in worldwide attention for the
gorillas, dispelling myths about their aggressive behavior and bringing focus
to the threats they faced in the wild. Several years later, she earned her Ph.D. 40
in zoology from the University of Cambridge. Now known as Dr. Dian Fossey,
the educational credential helped her secure additional funding for her field
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Dian worked tirelessly to protect the gorillas from illegal hunters. Although
usually not the direct target of poachers, mountain gorillas were often injured 45
by the traps set for other animals. Habitat loss was another issue facing the
gorillas. As the human population grew in the surrounding area, parts of the
forest were being converted for agricultural use. The methods Dian used to
combat these threats angered and upset many of the local people.

Dian returned to Rwanda in 1985. On December 27th of that year, her body 50
was found in her cabin. The murder of Dian Fossey remains unsolved to this
day. She was buried at the Karisoke Research Center, next to her gorilla
friend Digit, who was killed by poachers. Her legacy is carried on through the
conservation efforts of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, originally
named the Digit Fund. Mountain gorillas remain a critically endangered 55
species. Although their numbers have slowly been increasing, scientists
estimate that there are only 880 mountain gorillas remaining in the wild.

Answer all the questions using your own words as far as possible.

Question 1:
Read Text A, in the insert and then answer Questions 1(a)–(e) on this question paper.

(a) Justify the nickname ‘Leakey’s Angels” [2]

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(b) Using your own words, explain what the text means by – [4]
(i)‘critically endangered and often misunderstood (line 7)

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(ii) ‘not the direct target of poachers’ (line 45):

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(c) Re-read paragraph 2

How did ‘photos from a friend’s trip to Africa’ whet her ‘strong emotional connection
with animals’? [1]

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(d) Re-read paragraph 4
Explain the meaning of the term ‘habituation’ and its purpose. [2]

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(e) ) Re-read paragraph 6
What were some of the threats faced by mountain gorillas? [3]

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(f) With suitable evidence from the text, analyse the persona of Dian Fossey. [3]

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Passage B
Read Text B, and then answer Question 1(g) on this question paper.
The tendency nowadays to wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going
to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain
parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating
rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice 5
of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can
to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get rid of
rust and disease. Briskly venturing and roaming, some are washing off sins and
cobweb cares of the devil's spinning in all-day storms on mountains; sauntering
in rosiny pinewoods or in gentian meadows, brushing through chaparral, bending 10
down and parting sweet, flowery sprays; tracing rivers to their sources, getting in
touch with the nerves of Mother Earth; jumping from rock to rock, feeling the life
of them, learning the songs of them, panting in whole-souled exercise, and
rejoicing in deep, long-drawn breaths of pure wildness. This is fine and natural
and full of promise. So also is the growing interest in the care and preservation of 15
forests and wild places in general, and in the half wild parks and gardens of
towns. Even the scenery habit in its most artificial forms, mixed with spectacles,
silliness, and kodaks; its devotees arrayed more gorgeously than scarlet
tanagers, frightening the wild game with red umbrellas, --even this is
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Question 1
g. Analyze the reasons and ways in which humans are displaying a ‘tendency
nowadays to wander in wilderness.’
Your summary should not be more than 120 words.
Up to 10 marks are available for the content of your answer and up to 5
marks for the quality of your writing.

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Read Text C, and then answer Questions 2(a)–(d) on this question paper.
Don’t run, whatever you do
Peter, the narrator, has left his city home and is training to be a safari guide. He
has recently started work at a camp in Africa called Idube. The camp organises
safari drives and walks for guests to view animals in the wild, and weekly dinner
nights at the smaller Bush Camp, some way from the main camp.
The inventively named ‘Bush Camp’ was basically a clearing where a fire could 5
be built, around which delighted guests ate their meal. Firelight is romantic,
making everything look beautiful. By day, Bush Camp was a sorry patch of
earth, teeming with spiders. At night, with lanterns lit, the place looked perfect.
Dinner nights were cheap to run and popular with the camp’s owners, but not
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Setting up meant that any quiet time, when guests were out of camp, was filled
with frantic activity. The one spare vehicle, a decrepit, spluttering truck, would
be loaded with firewood, lanterns and a chef named Wusani whose bulk made
the ageing truck’s suspension creak ominously. Wusani particularly disliked
bush dinners. Once, after being dropped off to light the cooking fire, she’d been 15
unpleasantly surprised by the roar of a lion. Lions often walked in the soft sand
of the dry riverbed that flowed beside Bush Camp, enjoying the shade or
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stalking antelope in the cool tranquillity of the surroundings. This lion wasn’t
hunting, or it wouldn’t have roared. That didn’t make it any less terrifying for
Wusani. Returning later, the truck-driver found Wusani improbably perched on 20
the outermost branches of a long-dead tree. When told it was safe to come
down, she would not, because she could not. Adrenaline had fuelled the climb.
Finally, gravity’s pull resolved the issue. Wusani was saved from serious harm,
but would never stay at Bush Camp alone again. She warned me against it.
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refreshment to Bush Camp to last the night. I hadn’t been working at Idube
long, so was last in the queue for everything.
‘Drat,’ I thought one afternoon. I’d already helped load tables, chairs, salads
and cutlery, and was waiting in the sun for the truck to return. ‘I’ll carry it
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I loaded up a wheelbarrow with cans. I’d been learning from the guides and felt
I could handle anything Africa threw at me.
‘You’ll need to learn how to walk,’ Chris had said to me earlier.
I was nineteen and had been getting around on two feet with relative ease for
some years, so the comment seemed strange. But the ‘walking’ Chris meant 35
involved learning in-depth knowledge of trees, tracks and insects – the smaller
things, usually overlooked on safari drives. It was possible that while walking I,
and the excitable tourists I was being trained to lead, could encounter one of
the larger, more dangerous animals usually only viewed from the safety of a
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‘Don’t run, whatever you do,’ was always the advice from other guides. ‘Food
runs – and there’s nothing here you can outrun anyway.’
After struggling some way along the bumpy tracks the vehicles used, I decided
to ditch the wheelbarrow and carry the cans. However, I hadn’t considered how
heavy 24 cans of lemonade get when you’re slogging through soft sand. I soon 45
decided to change routes, taking a shortcut along the riverbed. Midway, I
stopped to shake pebbles from my shoe, putting the cans down and stretching.
Branches met overhead, offering cool shade.
A sense of peace mingled with the undercurrent of excitement that comes from
walking in the bush. In one of the branches, a lourie bird called, a long drawn 50
out hag-like rasp, irritatingly insistent. Later, I’d learn there are many birds that
give alarm calls when they see predators. The tricky part is figuring out whether
it’s calling because of you, or because of something larger and fiercer.
I put my shoe back on, hopping around to do so, picked up the cans and
rounded a fallen tree, startling two massive male lions that had been waiting for 55
whatever clumsy creature was making all the noise.
The time it took for them to get from where they were to where I stood was too
short for my life to flash before my eyes. Every instinct told me to flee, but two
thoughts came to mind: ‘Don’t drop the lemonade, it will get fizzed up,’ and
‘Don’t run’. Whichever motive was strongest, I don’t know. I stood my ground, 60
attempting my best roar back at the lions. The lions stopped, centimetres from
me, bellowed, spat, then, with a visible release of tension, trotted around me,
carrying on down the riverbed as if they had pressing business elsewhere. I
sank gratefully to the sand, shaking, but through the fear felt something else …
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Question 2
(a) Identify a word or phrase from the text which suggests the same idea
as the words underlined:
(i) In daylight, Bush camp was a sad scrap of earth.

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(ii) I filled up a wheelbarrow with cans .

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(iii) What Chris hinted at was insightful knowing of the forest .

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(iv) Branches interwove themselves above me.

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(b) Using your own words, explain what the writer means by each of the
words underlined:
A sense of peace mingled with the undercurrent of excitement that comes from
walking in the bush. In one of the branches, a lourie bird called, a long drawn
out hag-like rasp, irritatingly insistent.

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iii. insistent - _________________ [1]

(c) Use one example from the text below to explain how the writer suggests Ben’s
experiences and feelings that night. [3]
Use your own words in your explanation.
A sense of peace mingled with the undercurrent of excitement that comes
from walking in the bush. In one of the branches, a lourie bird called, a long
drawn out hag-like rasp, irritatingly insistent.

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• Paragraph beginning ‘Setting up meant that any quiet time’ and ending
‘warned me against it’ describing Wusani’s experience.(lines 11-24)
• Paragraph 12 beginning ‘The time it took for them..’ and ending ‘felt
something else … Pride’ which describes the narrator’s experience with the
lions.(lines 57-65)
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Explain how the writer uses language to convey meaning and to create effect
in these paragraphs. Choose three examples of words or phrases from each
paragraph to support your answer. Your choices should include the use of
imagery.
Write about 200 to 300 words.
Upto 15 marks are available for the content of your answer.

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Re-read Text C, in the insert and then answer Question 3 on this

question paper.
Question 3 :
Imagine you are the narrator, Peter. After years of experience as a safari
guide you are being interviewed by a local radio station. You are asked the
following three questions:
• What exactly is the job profile of a safari guide? How safe is it?
• What were your experiences like as an amateur? What challenges did you
face?
• How have you grown in your profession? What would you say to persuade
youngsters to take up this profession?

Base your answers on what you have read in Text C, but be careful to
use your own words.
Address each of the given questions only
Write about 250 to 300 words.
Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your answer and upto
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