UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level

* 7 7 4 7 7 9 3 5 5 3 *

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Paper 2

October/November 2011
1 hour 30 minutes

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

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Answer one question.
The total time of 1 hour 30 minutes includes time for you to study the questions before you begin your answer.
You may make notes during this time if you wish.
Up to 15 marks will be given for the quality and accuracy of your English throughout this paper.
Dictionaries are not permitted.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

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Study Passage 1 in the Insert to answer the following questions (a) (d).
(a) You are the Manager of Inter-Islands Stores. Draw up a report for the Directors explaining
whether, after further consultation, you would or would not recommend the setting up
of car wash facilities in the car park of their supermarket. You should take into account
some of the points made on both sides of the argument by people such as Denno and
Ebba. Answer in about 150 words.
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(b) You are one of the unemployed, unskilled labour force in the area. How keen would you be
to become a washboy at Inter-Islands Stores? Base your response on the conversation
between Denno and Ebba. You may, if you wish, introduce any supplementary material
of your own that you think appropriate. Answer in about 80 words.

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(c) Briefly indicate what each of the following tells us about the personality of either Denno
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All? Denno (line 8)

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Isnt that just typical! Denno (line 29)

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Theyd fall to bits if washed. Denno (lines 4849)

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Thats a good point! Ebba (line 54)

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The Boss would never employ anyone convicted of theft. Ebba (line 61)
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(d) Select any comment or question from the conversation between Denno and Ebba that
seems to be totally irrelevant to the debate on the merits or otherwise of car wash
facilities at the Inter-Islands Stores car park. Justify your choice in about 50 words.
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Study Passage 2 in the Insert to answer the following questions (a d).

Note: When a question asks for an answer IN YOUR OWN WORDS and you select the
appropriate material from the passage for your answer, you must still use your own words to
express it. Little credit can be given to answers which only copy words or phrases from the
passage.

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(a) On the basis of the data provided, write an article for a national newspaper portraying
Ryanol as a prosperous city that is well worth visiting. Answer in about 100 words
using your own words as far as possible.
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(b) On the basis of the data provided, write an article for a national newspaper portraying
Ryanol as a run-down city that is not worth a visit. Answer in about 100 words using
your own words as far as possible.
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(c) Of the sixty visitors to the Exchange Street Shopping Complex, only fifteen stated that
they would be there the day after the survey. Referring to some of the supplementary
information and to your own awareness of shopping habits, explain why such a response
to the second question was not surprising. Answer in about 100 words using your
own words as far as possible.
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(d) Briefly identify from the supplementary information:
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three kinds of people who were likely to have had other reasons to be at the bottom
of Exchange Street during the survey;

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an activity that might have taken place on the Wednesday in question but not from
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a fact that suggests that not everyone who ate and drank out in the city centre had
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Study Passage 3 in the Insert to answer the following questions (a d).

Note: When a question asks for an answer IN YOUR OWN WORDS and you select the
appropriate material from the passage for your answer, you must still use your own words to
express it. Little credit can be given to answers which only copy words or phrases from the
passage.
(a) In about 50 of your own words, explain why it has been thought necessary to design a
gravity tractor.
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(b) Apart from cost, how practical do you consider the project involving a gravity tractor
as a solution to the problems posed by asteroids? Answer in about 100 of your own
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(c) To what extent is the word tractor an accurate description of the spacecraft invented by
EADS Astrium? Answer in about 80 of your own words.

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(d) (i)

Explain the meaning of the following words as they are used in the passage. You
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(ii)

Use these words in six separate sentences to illustrate their meanings as used
in the passage. Your sentences should not deal with the subject matter of the
passage.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Question 3

Richard Gray; Scientists Design Spacecraft to Save Earth ; Daily Telegraph; 29 August 2009; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space;
10 October 2009.

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