UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

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CANDIDATE
NAME

CANDIDATE
CENTRE NUMBERR
NUMBER

1111/01
ENGLISH
May 2007
Paper 1
1 hour plus 7 minutes' reading tme

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

No Addional Materlals are required.

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1807 05 1111 01/2RP EUNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE

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Section A: Reading
.Kead this account of
the world's
destroyed the anclent Italian most famous volcanic eruption, Wnicn
of city Pompeli in thè year 79.
4 AUgust, 79, Galus Plinius Secundus better
ung down for an afternoon's reading at his house atknown as Pliny the Elder was
-

5ay Naples when his sister burst in and asked him Misenum at the mouth of the
of
strange cloud. to come and have a look at
a|
He climbed to the top of a nearby hill. An
his account of what he saw was
nephew, Pliny the Younger: 'The cloud
Could not tell from which mountain, though was rising; watchers fromtranscripeu
our
Dy
distanca
appearance and shape it was ike a tree the later
of it. Like an
it was known to be
Vesuvius. n
umbrella pine would give the
-

immense tree best idea

opened out with branches'. trunk, it was projected vertically into the air, and then
10
It wasnot known that Vesuvius was a
domant volcàno. It had not
memory and its slopes
were covered with erupted within living9
foot lay the orchards, vineyards and olive
Herculaneum commercial centre of Pompeii and groves. At
and its |
- which boasted agricultural the resort of
dozens of taverns and an
amphitheatre. that could seat 16,000
lavishly appointed baths. people,
At around 15
midday,
and pumice stone Vesuvius broke open with a sound
shot thousands like a thunderclap and
he was of metres into the fire, ash
witnessing a
major natural sky. Pliny
event. He ordered a boat to
the Elder realised that
he couid
get a closer look ard set off. be made ready so that
By this tirmeVesuvius was
much twenty centimetres pelting
as Pompeii with ash and pumice stone.
across were falling. from Rocks as 20
killing anyone they hit. The thousands of metres in the
inhabltants fled. Then a darkbuild-up pumice stone 'caused roofs to
of air,
what Pliny the cloud descended over collapse and the
Younger called 'the darkness of a sealed Misenum, wreathing the towr. in
room without
By evening, Pliny the Elder lights.
had reached the
being shaken by
going to bed. Theviolent tremors. He kept his fishing village of Stabiae, which was
morning he died. He had either lelsurely bath before 25
nerve, taking a
sulphurous gas, or hisfollowing
weak heart had
breathe. given out when it becamebeen sufocated by
difficult for him
Thinking the worst was
mixture of ash, over, some
Pompeiians returned to their city when
mountain at greatpumice stone and super-heated steam came a deadly 30
scalding heat. Their speed. Most were
simply overcome where
bodies were then covered with
surging down the
pumice stone and ash, between
they stood by the
began hundreds of yearskeeping them six and eight
later in the perfectly preserved until excavation metres of
nineteenth century. of the site
35
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Now answer these questions. Write your ahswers in the spacas provtted helow

(a) () How do you know that the siste of Piay the Elder was evchert abeut the dort
thet she had seen?

(1) What was strange about the cloud? 11

(b) () Why were the cities of Pormpei and Herculaneum particularty at danger fom
Vesuvius? (11
() Why were the citizens unaware of the danger? 11
lc) Give the meaning of each of the folowing words as used in the passage In each
case give only one word or short phrase
() mouth (line 2)
() transcribed (line 5)
(H) boasted (line 14)
(w) levishly (line 15)
do not
write in
Anewer questions 1/a)-(c) here. Tarin

(a ()

()

Cmouth:

transcribed:

boasted
lavishly

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2 Now answer
this summary question.
Wnte a summary of what the passage tells you about the effects of the
Vesuvius on the area and on the eruption of
people who lived there.
Write about 100 words.
Use your own words as far as
possible. 181
Write your summary
here. do not
write ir
margin
.