Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Paper 1 Reading and Writing (Core) SPECIMEN PAPER
恩爱夫妻Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required.
0510/01 For Examination from 2015
1 hour 30 minutes
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Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not u staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.
Answer all questions. Dictionaries are not allowed.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
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借据格式Exerci 1
Read the following advertiment for WaterAid, a charity that provides clean drinking water for people throughout the world, and then answer the questions on the opposite page.
Get involved
... in an event
London Triathlon WaterAid is proud to be the Official Charity for the London Triathlon. Take part as an individual
or as part of a relay team and swim, bike and run for WaterAid in the largest triathlon event in the world.
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Taste for Life WaterAid’s new fundraising initiative
“Taste for Life” is easy and fun! Get together with friends and family, enjoy good food, and rai funds for WaterAid. Holding a Taste for Life event is simple: invite your friends and neighbours over for a feast (a
picnic, lunch or barbecue), ask them to make a donation to WaterAid and encourage them to join the Taste for Life group by holding their own event.
has a range of resources to help you, including specially written music and words. Plea email singforwater@wateraid to find out more.
... at work
Give an Hour Every day many of the world’s poorest people are prevented from going to work to earn money becau they must spend hours arching all over the countryside in order to find and collect their water. Donate the pay you receive for just one hour of work to WaterAid on World Water Day and make a real difference.
Play the Lottery If you’re looking for a fun way to support WaterAid’s vital work, why not promote the
能人异士WaterAid lottery? It’s simple to join and easy to play – each entry costs just £1 and prizes of up to £500 can be won. Email fionablake@wateraid or visit www.wateraid/lottery to find out more.
... in your area
Put a Spring in your Step A sponsored walk is a great way of raising funds for our work and for creating awareness of world water issues, so get walking for water with your school or youth group. Plea email walkforwater@wateraid for your free fundraising booklet.
Sing for Water Turn your passion for singing into clean water for people in another country. To hold a “Sing for Water” event in your community all you need is a venue and willing singers. WaterAid
Turn Food into Water There are many ways to “Turn Food into Water”. For example, invite your work colleagues to a celebratory dinner party. Tell everyone to bring a prent, which will be sold to the highest bidder in an auction. Or el, buy a large cream cake and ll a numbered ticket to each guest; the lucky person with the winning number can take the cake home. Our free Food into Water fundraising leaflet contains other ideas to help you plan a successful event.
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(b) How can your friends and neighbours become members of the Taste for Life group? [1]
(c) How much does a WaterAid fundraising booklet cost? [1]
(d) What can WaterAid give you to help run a Sing for Water event? [1]
(e) Why are many of the world's poorest people unable to go to work? [1]
(f) How much are you encouraged to donate on World Water Day? [1]
(g) For what purpo are readers advid to contact Fiona Blake?
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Exerci 2
Read the following article about the lifestyle of ants, and then answer the questions on the opposite page.
Six Legs Good
Without ants, the world would be in chaos. Soil would be unable to sustain much life. Dead leaves, incts and small animals would litter the earth’s surface. Thousands of species of flowering plants would disappear into extinction, with no creatures to transport their pollen.
Like mobile dots, ants can suddenly appear in sugar bowls, crawl into neat lines over shoes or ruin an otherwi perfect picnic. They are silent, and often annoying, specimens of one of the most successful forms of life on Earth. There are 14,000 species of ants, with probably an equal number y
et to be discovered, who combined weight is more than that of the world’s entire human population. They have perfected a life that is more social than anything achieved by humans. Ants were building their own homes and colonies millions of years before humans had even considered walking on two legs.
Ants have fascinated philosophers, writers and naturalists for thousands of years. But in the last decade much new information has been revealed about the natural history of the incts. Scientists have supplied many details of how the incts survive and communicate and, most surprisingly, how the millions of ants make group decisions without having a leader. That study has put ants at the centre of what many leading biologists say is a new pha of biology – understanding how groups of individuals can behave as a single superorganism.
A scientist who has studied social incts for more than 50 years emphasis the importance of ants to life on Earth. “They are more important than earthworms for turning over the top layer of soil. They are also the principal collectors and clearers of waste,” he says. “They capture and feed on other small incts and remove dead creatures such as small birds, mice and rats.”
Since the first ants emerged more than 150 million years ago, the incts have colonid every conti
nent except Antarctica. They have acted as hunters, scavengers or farmers, and have evolved into thousands of shapes and sizes. The smallest ants are less than 1mm in length and look like tiny particles of pepper dust; the biggest can grow to 5cm, each one having a deadly sting for its victims.
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1 = Army Ants of South America 2 = Bulldog Ants of Australia 3 = Driver Ants of Africa 4 = Leaf-Cutter Ants of North America 5 = Pygmy Ants of Asia 6 = Trap-Jaw Ants of Africa 7 = Weaver Ants of Europe
Ant colonies range from a dozen individuals to millions of incts, mostly consisting of ordinary females with specific jobs, as workers, soldiers or caretakers. There are also one or two other females, called queens, which are responsible for the reproduction of the species. Others rve as scouts, finding esntial sources of food or arching out new homes when required. Males, called drones, are kept only long enough to fertili the queen’s eggs, then driven out of the nest or killed quickly afterwards.
This system has worked well for them. Through the process of evolution, the ants have discovered the principles of living and working in harmony. Perhaps we humans have a lot to learn from ants.
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(b) What can ants sometimes do to irritate us? Give two details.
[1] (c) How does the weight of the whole human population compare to that of the ant population?
[1] (d) When did ants start to construct their own homes?
报晓[1] (e) What is surprising about how so many ants can arrive at the same decision?
[1] (f) How do ants help to keep the Earth’s surface free of waste? Give two details.
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(g) According to the writer, why is Antarctica different from all other continents? [1]
(h) How have ants changed physically over the years? [1]公鸡打鸣声音
(i) Why are the largest ants so dangerous to other incts? [1]
(j) According to the diagram, which two species of ants have bodies between 30 mm and 40 mm long?
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