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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
0500/12
FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH
Paper 1 Reading Passage (Core)
May/June 2011
READING BOOKLET INSERT
1 hour 45 minutes
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
This Insert contains the reading passage for use with both questions on the Question Paper.
This document consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page.
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Read the following passage carefully and then answer all the questions in the Answer Booklet.
A company called Time Safari offers people the opportunity to travel back in a time machine to
shoot a dinosaur. In this passage four hunters, led by Travis, are starting their journey into the
past. Eckels is one of the hunters.
Time Travel
First a day and then a night and then a day and then a night, then it was day-night-day-night.
A week, a month, a year, a decade! 2011. 1999. 1957. Gone! The Time Machine roared. Travis
and the hunters put on their oxygen helmets and tested the intercoms.
The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after
them. ‘Think,’ said Eckels. ‘Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. This makes Africa seem
like a country park.’ The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped.
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The sun stopped in the sky.
The fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time, a very old
time indeed.
‘Mankind isn’t born yet,’ said Travis. ‘The Pyramids are still in the earth, waiting to be cut out and
put up. Remember that. Caesar, Confucius, Gandhi, Napoleon – none of them exists yet.’
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Mr. Travis pointed through the window. ‘Out there is the jungle of sixty million, two thousand
and fifty-five years ago.’ He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over
steaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms. ‘And that,’ he said, ‘is the Path, laid for your use.
It floats fifteen centimetres above the earth. It doesn’t touch so much as one grass blade, flower
or tree. It’s an anti-gravity metal. Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past
in any way. Stay on the Path. Don’t go off it. I repeat. Don’t go off it. For any reason! If you fall off,
there’s a large penalty fine. And don’t shoot any animal without my permission.’
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‘Why?’ asked Eckels.
They sat looking into the ancient wilderness. In the distance, birds’ cries blew on a wind, and the
smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the colour of blood.
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‘We don’t want to change the Future. We don’t belong here in the Past. Time travel is a tricky
business. If we’re not careful, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a flower even, thus
destroying an important link in a growing species.’
‘I’m still not clear,’ said Eckels.
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‘All right,’ Travis continued, ‘say we accidentally kill one mouse here. That means all the future
families of this one particular mouse are destroyed, right?’
‘Right.’
‘And all the families of the families of the families of that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot,
you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!’
‘So they’re dead,’ said Eckels. ‘So what?’
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‘So what?’ Travis snorted quietly. ‘Well, what about the foxes that’ll need those mice to survive?
Without ten mice, a fox dies. Without ten foxes a lion starves. Without a lion, infinite billions of life
forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, could start
an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our earth and destinies down through Time, to
their very foundations.’
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‘I see,’ said Eckels. ‘Then it wouldn’t pay for us even to touch the grass?’
‘Correct. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years out of all proportion. A dead mouse
here makes an insect imbalance there, a population imbalance later, a bad harvest further on.
Who knows? But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a
big roar or a little rustle in history, we’re being careful.’
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‘How do we know which animals to shoot?’
‘They’re marked with red paint,’ said Travis. ‘Today, before our journey, I came back with the
Machine to this particular era and followed certain animals.’
‘Studying them?’
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‘Right,’ said Travis. ‘I track them through their entire existence. When I find one that’s going to
die when a tree falls on him, or one that drowns in a tar pit, I note the exact hour, minute and
second. I shoot a paint bomb. It leaves a red patch on his side. We can’t miss it. Then I set our
arrival in the Past so that we meet the animal not more than two minutes before he would have
died anyway. This way, we kill only animals with no future, that are never going to mate again.
You see how careful we are?’
They were ready to leave the Machine.
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
* 5 5 6 2 2 5 1 0 6 0 *
FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH
Paper 1 Reading Passage (Core)
0500/12
May/June 2011
1 hour 45 minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
Additional Materials:
Reading Booklet Insert
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand
in. Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction
fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES.
Answer all questions.
Dictionaries are not permitted.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
This document consists of 7 printed pages, 1 blank page and 1 Insert.
DC (NH) 46835/5 R
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Question 1
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Read carefully the passage Time Travel in the Reading Booklet Insert and then answer
all the questions.
(a) Explain, using your own words, the phrase ‘a film run backward’ (line 4).
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(c) Give two facts about the path which are mentioned in lines 12–18 (Mr. Travis
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(d) Re-read lines 8–21 (The fog that had enveloped…the colour of blood.). Choose three
short phrases used by the writer to describe the world in the distant past.
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(e) Which word in lines 32–36 (‘So what?…very foundations.’) suggests that Travis feels
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(f)
Re-read from the beginning of the passage to the end of line 24 (…in a growing
species.’). Write a summary of what Eckels saw and heard during his journey to the
past and after he arrived there.
Write a paragraph of about 50–70 words.
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(g) Explain, using your own words, what Travis says may be the possible effects of
accidentally killing one mouse while they are visiting the past (lines 22–41, ‘We don’t
want to change…we’re being careful’.).
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(h) Explain, using your own words, what the writer means by:
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‘with a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one’ (lines 29–30);
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‘this particular era’ (line 44).
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Question 2
For
Examiner’s
Imagine you are Travis and you have returned to your own time. Your safari did not go to
plan. Write a report for your manager at Time Safari.
In your report you should describe:
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who was responsible;
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what you fear might be the possible outcomes.
You should base your ideas on what you have read in the passage, but do not copy from
it. You should write between 1 and 1½ sides, allowing for the size of your handwriting.
Up to ten marks are available for the content of your answer, and up to ten marks for
the quality of your writing.
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IGCSE Writing
Steps to success
C
Factual and inferential ideas from the text are included.
Demonstrates and develops suggestions about what went wrong and shows
understanding of Eckel’s involvement and of Travis’s concerns. Sentences are fluent
and there is a fairly wide range of vocabulary. Overall structure is good and
sentences generally follow in sequence. Most full stops are correct and errors are
infrequent and minor. An appropriate register is established.
D
The answer refers to several details from the text.
Simple sentences are accurate.
There may be frequent, minor errors.
E
The answer focuses on the question.
Material is included in a simple, basic way.
There may be frequent errors but meaning is never in doubt.
F
There is some relevance to the question.
The answer may have some material which has been lifted from the text.
The answer may be difficult to understand in places.
G
Retell the original story.
Copy the some of the answer from the text.
The answer is difficult to understand.