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ST ANTHONY'S CANOSSIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL

MID-YEAR EXAMINATION 2012 SECONDARY 3 EXPRESS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Comprehension Setter: Miss Rosalind Yeo Insert

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27 April 2012

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Section A Text 1 Study the advertisement below and answer Questions 1-4 in the Question Paper Booklet.

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Section B

Text 2 The text below is about a prison in Burma, where the writer and other officials are waiting to attend the hanging of a prisoner. Read it carefully and answer Questions 5-14 in the Question Paper Booklet.

1 It was in Burma, a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard. We were waiting outside the condemned cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages. Each cell measured about ten feet by ten and was quite bare within except for a plank bed and a pot of drinking water. In some of them brown silent men were squatting at the inner bars, with their blankets draped round them. These were the condemned men, due to be hanged within the next week or two.

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2 One prisoner had been brought out from his cell. He was a Hindu, a puny wisp of a man, with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. He had a thick, sprouting moustache, absurdly too big for his body, rather like the moustache of a comic man on the films. Six tall Indian warders were guarding him and getting him ready for the gallows. Two of them stood by with rifles and fixed bayonets, while the others handcuffed him, passed a chain through his handcuffs and fixed it to their belts, and lashed his arms tight to his sides. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him to make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water. However, he stood quite unresisting, yielding his arms limply to the ropes, as though he hardly noticed what was happening.

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3 Eight o‟clock struck and a bugle call, desolately thin in the wet air, floated from the distant barracks. The superintendent of the jail, who was standing apart from the rest of us, moodily prodding the gravel with his stick, raised his head at the sound. He was an army doctor, with a grey toothbrush moustache and a gruff voice. „For God‟s sake hurry up, Francis,‟ he said irritably. „The man ought to have been dead by this time. Aren‟t you ready yet?‟

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4 Francis, the head jailer, a fat Dravidian in a white drill suit and gold spectacles, waved his black hand. „Yes sir, yes sir,‟ he bubbled. „All iss satisfactorily prepared. The hangman iss waiting. We shall proceed.‟

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5 „Well, quick march, then. The prisoners can‟t get their breakfast till this job‟s over.‟

6 We set out for the gallows. Two warders marched on either side of the prisoner, with their rifles at the slope; two others marched close against him, gripping him by arm and shoulder, as though at once pushing and supporting him. The rest of us, magistrates and the like, followed behind. Suddenly, when we had gone ten yards, the procession stopped short without any order or warning. A dreadful thing had happened – a dog, come goodness knows whence, had appeared in the yard. It came bounding among us with a loud volley of barks, and leapt round us wagging its whole body, wild with glee at finding so many human beings together. It was a large woolly dog, half Airedale, half pariah. For a moment it pranced round us, and then, before anyone could stop it, it had made a dash for the prisoner, and jumping

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up tried to lick his face. Everyone stood aghast, too taken aback even to grab at the dog.

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7 „Who let that bloody brute in here?‟ growled the superintendent. „Catch it, someone!‟

8 A warder, detached from the escort, charged clumsily after the dog, but it danced and gambolled just out of his reach, taking everything as part of the game. A young Eurasian jailer picked up a handful of gravel and tried to stone the dog away, but it dodged the stones and came after us again. Its yaps echoed from the jail walls. The prisoner, in the grasp of the two warders, looked on incuriously, as though this was another formality of the hanging. It was several minutes before someone managed to catch the dog. Then we put my handkerchief through its collar and moved off once more, with the dog straining and whimpering.

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9 It was about forty yards to the gallows. I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in front of me. He walked clumsily with his bound arms, but quite steadily, with that bobbing gait of the Indian who never straightens his knees. At each step his muscles slid neatly into place, the lock of hair on his scalp danced up and down, his feet printed themselves on the wet gravel. Once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.

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10 It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive.

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Adapted from “A Hanging” by George Orwell

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Text 3 The article below is about human trafficking, which is a form of modern slavery. Read it carefully and answer Questions 15-21 in the Question Paper Booklet. 1 As a result of a relentless campaign led by William Wilberforce*, the slave trade

was “abolished” in this country in 1807. Yet sadly it still exists. United Nations figures suggest that 800,000 people are trafficked annually in one form or another.

2 Modern slavery assumes a different mantle from the slavery of Wilberforce's day. Then, it was part of everyday life. Today's slavery is more insidious, hidden from public gaze.

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3 It takes many forms, such as debt bondage, where gangs bring individuals illegally into this country and then require them to pay off an artificially inflated debt through their labour; trafficking of women for the purposes of sexual exploitation, where the trafficker receives recompense or a percentage of earnings – again hugely inflated; and trafficking of children, either for petty crime or more serious crimes such as ATM thefts and begging. Children under 10 are increasingly trained for criminal activity, since they fall below the age of criminal responsibility.

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4 Human trafficking is nothing less than serious, international, organised crime: the money generated from it (an estimated $32 billion per annum) is only marginally less than from arms dealing and drug smuggling.

5 In the past decade, the government has launched a number of initiatives. These include extending legislation to apprehend traffickers, to confiscate their property, and to compensate victims found here; the funding of the Poppy Project to offer adult victims accommodation and support; and the creation of the Human Trafficking Centre. However, the number of people trafficked into this country continues to grow. Given the home secretary's statement last year that tackling trafficking is a "coalition priority", the hope is that the government's new strategy, expected to be announced this month, will build on the steps taken by the last government and keep Britain at the forefront of the anti-trafficking fight.

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6 One issue the strategy should focus on is prevention. Too often vulnerable people are lured with false promises of a better life, only to find themselves enslaved on arrival. The Human Trafficking Foundation, of which I am a founding trustee, is supporting and assessing a prevention programme in Romania that provides educational and vocational help to vulnerable girls and boys. I would welcome government support for such projects.

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7 More also needs to be done to disrupt trafficking networks, which requires better coordination between law enforcement, social care and immigration agencies, but also constant dialogue with agencies working "at the coalface" that have valuable practical knowledge to share.

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8 Finally, the cross-border nature of trafficking means our fight must be carried out

in close liaison with our European Union (EU) partners and at many levels – to hold governments to account; across police forces, to ensure targets are agreed and met; within immigration services across Europe, to ensure staff are better able to spot trafficking victims. To this end the Human Trafficking Foundation, together with ECPAT UK (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes United Kingdom) and the Asociata High Level Group in Romania, is about to launch a two-year initiative funded by the European Commission and the Tudor Trust to recruit and inform national parliamentarians throughout the EU.

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“Human Trafficking is Modern Slavery”, The Guardian, 2 July 2011 *William Wilberforce: 1759-1833, British statesman, philanthropist, and writer.