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    The passage provides advice from a dog named Boy on how young dogs can get along with humans. Boy warns that Christmas puppies often end up abandoned by spring and advises not to understand the attraction of television. He also tells dogs not to bark at burglars but wait until they leave the house.

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    The passage provides advice from a dog named Boy on how young dogs can get along with humans. Boy warns that Christmas puppies often end up abandoned by spring and advises not to understand the attraction of television. He also tells dogs not to bark at burglars but wait until they leave the house.

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    The passage provides advice from a dog named Boy on how young dogs can get along with humans. Boy warns that Christmas puppies often end up abandoned by spring and advises not to understand the attraction of television. He also tells dogs not to bark at burglars but wait until they leave the house.

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    1111-01 - Exercise 1 - 14.56.09

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    The passage provides advice from a dog named Boy on how young dogs can get along with humans. Boy warns that Christmas puppies often end up abandoned by spring and advises not to understand the attraction of television. He also tells dogs not to bark at burglars but wait until they leave the house.

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    Section A: Reading
    1111/01 : Non-fiction text

    (Reading Comprehension & Summary Writing)

    Read the article Peter Mayle’s book “A Dog’s Life” is a ‘memoir’ of a dog named Boy. In this
    memoir, Boy, who is a veteran in living with human beings, gives advice to young dogs about
    how to get along with these ‘two-legged beings’.

    Advice to the Young Dog

    Beware of Christmas. It is traditionally a time when puppies are brought into the happy
    home as gifts. If they manage to survive an early diet of turkey, mince pies, liqueur chocolates,
    wrapping paper, tinsel and tree ornaments, they grow, as puppies do. For some reason, this
    causes astonishment and consternation among the older members of the family, who should
    have known better. Unfortunately, they do not and by spring they are looking for someone
    prepared to take over a dog that has become an inconvenience. Christmas puppies should not
    make long- term plans. Sad but true.

    Do not even attempt to understand the lure of the television. I like to think of myself as
    fairly sophisticated, able to move freely among different social groups, sympathetic to their
    interests, however bizarre, and so forth, but here I am baffled. A box filled with small and noisy
    people, a disagreeable scent of heated plastic, the room plunged into darkness, conversation
    banned, and the faint sounds of snoring in the background-is this enjoyable? I cannot make
    heard or tail of it myself. Have you ever seems rabbits hypnotised by flashlights? That is
    television, as far as I am concerned.

    You may one night be disturbed by stealthy arrival through a window of a gentleman
    who tiptoes around the house in silence. These are burglars. Never bark at them. They have no
    respect for animal rights and can be violent. Postpone making noise until they are safely out of
    the house. With luck, they might have taken the television.

    Now answer the questions in the spaces provided.

    1 (a) What are “long term plans?”

    ___________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________ [1]
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    (b) What is the attitude of Boy towards television?

    ___________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________ [1]

    (c) What is the effect of television according to him?

    ___________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________ [1]

    2 Give the meaning of each of these words as they are used in the passage.
    In each case, give one word or short phrase.

    (a) lure __________________________________________________________ [1]

    (b) bizarre __________________________________________________________ [1]

    (c) baffled __________________________________________________________ [1]

    (d) hypnotised __________________________________________________________ [1]

    3. (a) List down the advice given by Boy in the passage. Include one supporting detail for each
    advice.

     ____________________________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________________________

     ____________________________________________________________________ [3]
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    (b) Write a summary of 80 – 100 words using your list to describe how should dogs get along
    with human beings, from a veteran dog’s perspective. Use your own words as much as possible.

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    _________________________________________________________________________________ [2]

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