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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
0500/22
FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH
Paper 2 Reading Passages (Extended)
May/June 2013
2 hours
READING BOOKLET INSERT
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
This Insert contains the reading passages for use with all questions on the Question Paper.
You may annotate this Reading Booklet Insert and use the blank spaces for planning. This Insert is not
assessed by the Examiner.
This document consists of 4 printed pages.
DC (CW) 86483
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Part 1
Read Passage A carefully, and then answer Questions 1 and 2 on the Question Paper.
Passage A
This is an account by Katrin of a practical joke played on her and a friend, Anya.
The Joker
My mother advised me not to go to the Great Lake without suitable clothing because of the notorious
winds that blew up out of nowhere.
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There they were, just two of them, identical
prints of gigantic feet and horrible claws, perfectly formed in the soft mud of the lakeside. We stood
amazed in mystified silence.
Part 2
Read Passage B carefully, and re-read Passage A. Then answer Question 3,
which is based on both passages. Answer on the Question Paper.
Passage B
Do dinosaurs still exist? In this passage the writer suggests that there may still be discoveries to
be made.
Kongamato
Although dinosaurs are known to have been extinct for thousands of years, a strange tale from Zambia,
in Africa, might suggest otherwise.
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Today, sightings continue in remote areas of Africa and the existence of the Kongamato is common
knowledge among the inhabitants. When asked to draw what they have seen, they repeatedly draw a
creature that looks remarkably like a pterosaur.
Copyright Acknowledgements:
Passage B
© Peter Denton; Kongamato (adapted)
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