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HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION
A
COMPULSORY

PRACTICE PAPER
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1

PART A
Reading Passages
1% hours
. (for both Parts A and 8)

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

(1) There are two parts (A and B) in this paper. All candidates should attempt Part A. In Part B, you
should attempt either Part B1 (easier section) OR Part B2 (more difficult section). Candidates
attempting Parts A and B2 will be able to attain the full range of levels, while Level 4 will be the
highest level attainable for candidates attempting Parts A and B1.

(2) After the announcement of the start of the examination, you should first write your Candidate
Number in the space provided on the appropriate pages of the Part A Question-Answer Book
and the Part B Question-Answer Book which you are going to attempt.

(3) Write your answers in the spaces provided in the Question-Answer Books. Answers written in the
margins will not be marked.

(4) For multiple-choice questions, you are advised to blacken the appropriate circle with a pencil so
that wrong marks can be completely erased with a clean rubber. Mark only ONE answer to each
question. Two or more answers will score NO MARKS.

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is up' announcement.

(7) The two Question-Answer Books you have attempted (one for Part A and one for Part B) will be
collected together at the end of the examination.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PART A

Attempt ALL questions in Part A. Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise stated.

Not to be taken away before the

end of the examination session

CEP Edge Set 5 - Paper 1 (RP-A) - 1- © Pearson Education Asia Limited 2015
 PART A
Read Text 1 and answer questions 1-24 on pages 1-4 of the Question-Answer Bookfor PartA.
Text 1
Wild Obsession
The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets
By Lauren Slater
[1] All across the nation, in Americans' backyards and
garages and living rooms, in their beds and basements
5 and bathrooms, wild animals kept as pets live side by
side with their human owners. It's believed that more
exotic animals live in American homes than are cared
for in American zoos. The exotic-pet business is a
lucrative industry, one that's drawn criticism from animal
10 welfare advocates and wildlife conservationists alike.
These people say it's not only dangerous to bring captive-
bred wildlife into the suburbs, but it's cruel and it ought
to be criminal too. Yet the issue is far from black and
white.
15 [2] Tim Harrison understands the allure of owning exotic
pets. Thirty-two years ago, he worked as a public safety
officer in the city of Oakwood, Ohio, and kept a
menagerie in his house. He had snakes wrapped around
lamp poles. He had rhesus monkeys leaping from counter
20 to couch. He had lions sunning themselves on his gravel
driveway. He had capuchin monkeys and bears and
wolves, which were his favorites.
[3] After a hard day of chasing criminals or a boring day
of ticketing cars, Harrison would change out of his
25 uniform and drive home to his animals. He always went
to the wolves first. His body aching, his mind numbed,
he'd let the canines come to him, weaving around his
legs. He'd drop down on his knees and then lie flat on
his back, the wolves clambering over him. 'I would just
30 lie there and let them lick me,' Harrison says, 'and it was
one of the best feelings in the world.'
[4] Now the animals are gone. Harrison will never again
own anything wild or exotic. He believes ownership of
all potentially dangerous exotic animals should be banned
35 and is working to make that happen. He underwent a
profound transformation, his entire outlook shattered and
put back together again in a new way.
[5] What happened is this: After decades of being an
exotic-pet owner, Harrison went to Africa. He drove over
40 the open plains and grasslands, and he can remember, all
these years later, the giraffes' long lope, the lions'
hypnotic canter, the elephants sucking water up their
trunks and spraying themselves so their hides glistened.
Harrison gazed upon these wild animals, and he says it
CEP Edge Set 5 - Paper 1 (RP-A)
45 was as if his eyes had been blistered shut and were
suddenly opened as he witnessed these mammals moving
in such profound harmony with their environment that
you could hear it: a rhythm, a pulse, a roar. This, Harrison
suddenly realized, was how wild animals are supposed
50 to live. They are not supposed to live in Dayton or any
other suburb or city; they are creatures in and of the land,
and to give them anything less suddenly seemed wrong.
[6] Today, Harrison is retired from the police force. He
puts as many hours as he can into Outreach for Animals,
55 an organization he helped found to rescue exotic pets and
place them in one of the sanctuaries he trusts. 'Many of
the so-called wildlife sanctuaries in this country are
actually using their animals to make a profit, commercially
breeding them or allowing public contact. The few that
60 operate solely for the benefit of the animals are already
overloaded,' says Vernon Weir of the American Sanctuary
Association. 'A good sanctuary will take in only what
they can afford to care for.'
[7] Harrison's agency fields hundreds of calls a month
65 from law enforcement officials dealing with an escaped
animal or owners overwhelmed by the cost and
responsibility of an animal 'scare. He is currently working
with a man who owns a bear that bit off his finger. The
owner can't yet bring himself to let the bear go. 'I meet
70 people where they're at,' says Harrison. 'Ifan owner isn't
ready to give their exotic [pet] up, I help them care for
the animal in the best way possible. I help them build a
better enclosure or get the best kind of feed. I don't judge.
My hope is that, with the right kind of support, the person
75 will eventually see that owning this animal is a dangerous
drain and will voluntarily choose to give it up.'
[8] Harrison feels empathy for wild animal owners,
whose affection he so well understands. He loved his
animals. He believed, as most owners do, that his animals
80 loved him. He believed that having a thriving menagerie
made him special. 'But I was deluded,' he says. 'I used
to believe there was no animal 1could not tame, no animal
1 was unable to train, and that any animal living under
my roof was receiving the best of care.' The delusion,
85 rooted in a deep desire to commune with wild animals,
has lingered long after the beasts were gone. Every time
he participates in a rescue, he has to stop himself from
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 PART A
Read Text 1 and answer questions 1-24 on pages 1-4 of the Question-Answer Bookfor PartA.
Text 1
Wild Obsession
The perilous attraction of owning exotic pets
By Lauren Slater
[1] All across the nation, in Americans' backyards and
garages and living rooms, in their beds and basements
5 and bathrooms, wild animals kept as pets live side by
side with their human owners. It's believed that more
exotic animals live in American homes than are cared
for in American zoos. The exotic-pet business is a
lucrative industry, one that's drawn criticism from animal
10 welfare advocates and wildlife conservationists' alike.
These people say it's not only dangerous to bring captive-
bred wildlife into the suburbs, but it's cruel and it ought
to be criminal too. Yet the issue is far from black and
white.
15 [2] Tim Harrison understands the allure of owning exotic
pets. Thirty-two years ago, he worked as a public safety
officer in the city of Oakwood, Ohio, and kept a
menagerie in his house. He had snakes wrapped around
lamp poles. He had rhesus monkeys leaping from counter
20 to couch. He had lions sunning themselves on his gravel
driveway. He had capuchin monkeys and bears and
wolves, which were his favorites.
[3] After a hard day of chasing criminals or a boring day
of ticketing cars, Harrison would change out of his
25 uniform and drive home to his animals. He always went
to the wolves first. His body aching, his mind numbed,
he'd let the canines come to him, weaving around his
legs. He'd drop down on his knees and then lie flat on
his back, the wolves clambering over him. 'I would just
30 lie there and let them lick me,' Harrison says, 'and it was
one of the best feelings in the world.'
[4] Now the animals are gone. Harrison will never again
own anything wild or exotic. He believes ownership of
all potentially dangerous exotic animals should be banned
35 and is working to make that happen. He underwent a
profound transformation, his entire outlook shattered and
put back together again in a new way.
[5] What happened is this: After decades of being an
exotic-pet owner, Harrison went to Africa. He drove over
40 the open plains and grasslands, and he can remember, all
these years later, the giraffes' long lope, the lions'
hypnotic canter, the elephants sucking water up their
trunks and spraying themselves so their hides glistened.
Harrison gazed upon these wild animals, and he says it
I CEP Edge Set 5 - Paper 1 (RP-A)
45 was as if his eyes had been blistered shut and were
suddenly opened as he witnessed these mammals moving
in such profound harmony with their environment that
you could hear it: a rhythm, a pulse, a roar. This, Harrison
suddenly realized, was how wild animals are supposed
50 to live. They are not supposed to live in Dayton or any
other suburb or city; they are creatures in and of the land,
and to give them anything less suddenly seemed wrong.
[6] Today, Harrison is retired from the police force. He
puts as many hours as he can into Outreach for Animals.
55 an organization he helped found to rescue exotic pe - and
place them in one of the sanctuaries he trusts. '\Ianyof
the so-called wildlife sanctuaries in this country are
actually using their animals to make a profit, commercially
breeding them or allowing public contact. The few that
60 operate solely for the benefit of the animals are already
overloaded,' says Vernon Weir of the American Sanctuary
Association. 'A good sanctuary will take in only what
they can afford to care for.'
[7] Harrison's agency fields hundreds of calls a month
65 from law enforcement officials dealing with an escaped
animal or owners overwhelmed by the cost and
responsibility of an animal's care. He is currently working
with a man who owns a bear that bit off his finger. The
owner can't yet bring himself to let the bear go. 'I meet ~
70 people where they're at,' says Harrison. 'If an owner isn't
ready to give their exotic [pet] up, I help them care for
the animal in the best way possible. I help them build a
better enclosure or get the best kind offeed. I don't judge.
My hope is that, with the right kind of support, the person
75 will eventually see that owning this animal is a dangerous
drain and will voluntarily choose to give it up.'
[8] Harrison feels empathy for wild animal owners,
whose affection he so well understands. He loved his
animals. He believed, as most owners do, that his animals
80 loved him. He believed that having a thriving menagerie
made him special. 'But I was deluded,' he says. 'I used
to believe there was no animal I could not tame, no animal
I was unable to train, and that any animal living under
my roof was receiving the best of care.' The delusion,
85 rooted in a deep desire to commune with wild animals,
has lingered long after the beasts were gone. Every time
he participates in a rescue, he has to stop himself from
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 taking the animal home. 'I try to keep my contact with
the animals I rescue to a minimum,' Harrison explains,
90 'because my addiction can come back at a moment's
notice.'
[9] Privately owning exotic animals is currently permitted
in a handful of states with essentially no restrictions: You
must have a license to own a dog, but you, are free to
95 purchase a lion or a baboon and keep it as a pet. Even in
the states where exotic-pet ownership is banned, 'people
break the law,' says Adam Roberts of Born Free USA,
who keeps a running database of deaths and injuries
attributed to exotic-pet ownership: in Texas, a four-year-
100 old mauled by a mountain lion his aunt kept as a pet; in
Connecticut, a 55-year-old woman's face permanently
disfigured by her friend's lifelong pet chimpanzee; in
Ohio, an 80-year-old man attacked by a 200-pound
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kangaroo; in Nebraska, a 34-year-old man strangled to
105 death by his pet snake. And that list does not capture the
number of people who become sick from coming into
contact with zoonotic diseases.
[10] Roberts says his organization's mission is to keep
wildlife in the wild, where it belongs. When humans
110 choose to keep what are supposed to be wild animals as
pets, we turn them into something outside of wild,
something for which nature has no place. In the famous
children's book Where the Wild Things Are, a boy sails
on a boat to an island where he dances with beasts born
115 from his imagination. In the end, what we learn from
exotic-pet ownership is that when you take the wild out
of the wild, you eradicate its true nature and replace it
with fantasy - the fantasy being ours, we humans, the
animals at once the most and the least tamed of all.
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DIFFICULT SECTION

PRACTICE PAPER
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1

PART 82
Reading Passages
1% hours
(for both Parts A and 8)

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Refer to the General Instructions on Page 1 of the Reading Passages booklet for Part A.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PART B2

(1) Candidates who choose Part B2 should attempt all questions in this part. Each question carries
ONE mark unless otherwise stated.

(2) Hand in only ONE Question-Answer Book for Part B, either B1 or B2.

Not to be taken away before the

end of the examination session

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 PART 82

Read Text 4 and answer questions 56-74 on pages 1-4 of the Question-Answer Book/or Part B2.

Text 4

Vegetarian or omnivore: The environmental

implications of diet?
By Tamar Haspel

[IJ The argument that a vegetarian diet is more planet-
friendly than a carnivorous one is straightforward. Ifwe
feed plants to animals, and then eat the animals, we use
5 more resources and produce more greenhouse gases than
if we simply eat the plants. As with most arguments about
our food supply, though, it's not that simple. Although
beef is always climatically costly, pork or chicken Ganbe
a better choice than broccoli, calorie for calorie.
10 [2J Much of the focus on the climate impact of meat has
been on cattle, and with good reason. Any way you slice
it, beef has the highest environmental cost of just about
any food going, and the cow's digestive system is to
blame. Ruminants - cows, sheep, goats, and also yaks
15 and giraffes - have a four-chambered stomach that
digests plants by fermentation. A by-product of that
fermentation is methane, a greenhouse gas with some 20
times the heat-trapping ability of carbon dioxide. One
cow's annual output of methane - about 100 kilograms
20 - is equivalent to the emissions generated by a car
burning 235 gallons of gasoline.
[3J Methane isn't the only strike against ruminants.
There's also fertility. Cows can have only one calf per
year, which means the carbon cost of every cow destined
25 for beef includes the cost of maintaining an adult for a
year. Pigs, by contrast, can have two litters a year, with
ten or more pigs per litter. Then there's feed conversion.
It takes six pounds of feed to make one pound of beef,
but only 3.5 pounds for pork and two pounds for chicken.
30 Considering the methane, the babies and the feed, it's
clear that ruminants do more damage than their one-
stomached barnyard compatriots (monogastrics, they're
called).
[4J The claim that vegetarianism is kinder to the planet
35 also fails to consider a couple of kinds of meat that aren't
often included in environmental studies. Deer and Canada
geese do active damage on the areas where they're over-
populated, and wild pigs leave destruction in their path
wherever they go. Eat venison, goose or pork from wild
40 pigs, and you do the planet a favor.
[5J Most people, though, are most likely to get their food
from the farm, and it's important to note that not all pork
chops - or tomatoes or eggs - are created equal.
Unfortunately, it's all but impossible for us consumers to
45 figure out the climate impact of the particular specimens
on our dinner table, whether they're animal or vegetable.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations, organic agriculture'S carbon dioxide
emissions per acre are significantly less than those of
50 conventional agriculture. But yields per acre are also
generally lower, and that mitigates the savings.
Counterintuitively, the strawberry you buy from the
farmer down the road might have a bigger environmental
footprint than the strawberry you buy from far away,
55 where a large farm in an ideal climate may grow it more
efficiently. But it might not. You can't know. It's
maddening.
[6J When it comes to eating meat, trying to eat responsibly
presents a genuine conundrum: What's best for the planet
60 is often what's worst for the animal. The efficiencies of
modern conventional livestock farming do indeed
decrease the output of greenhouse gases, but they also
require the confinement and high density that draw the
ire of animal welfare advocates. Growing an animal as
65 quickly as possible decreases climate impact because it's
that many fewer days (or weeks or months) the animal is
here to pollute. Increasing feed efficiency likewise
decreases the acreage devoted to growing the animal's
food.
70 [7J Rich Pirog, senior associate director of the Center for
Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University,
has studied the environmental impact of various ways of
raising livestock; he has co-authored studies of Iowa
cattle and pigs. For beef, he found that feedlots where
75 cattle are kept at high densities and fed grain, beat
pastures, where animals are allowed to graze. For pigs,
there was some overlap in conventional farming and
'niche' systems, in which pigs have deep bedding and
outdoor access. Pirog says that 'the most efficient niche
80 producers were pretty comparable to the average

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 conventional producers'. There's less research on poultry,
but what has been done indicates that chickens raised in
confinement also use fewer resources.
[8] Confinement equals efficiency, but confinement also
85 equals, well, confinement. Although no farmers I've ever
spoken with believe their animals are unhappy, many
welfare-minded meat consumers (including me) prefer
to support a system in which animals have elbow room
and outdoor access; where cages aren't used, tails aren't
90 cut short and antibiotics aren't routinely administered.
[9] There are other arguments, on both sides - so many
that it's easy to pick the ones that make the case for
whichever kind of agriculture you're inclined to support.
Grass- fed cows don't compete for plants humans can eat,
95 and cattle grazing on non-irrigated pasture don't compete
for water that could be used to grow food (truel), but
grass digestion creates more methane than grain digestion
(also truel),
[10] The meat-versus-other-meat debate is irrelevanllo
100 the committed vegetarian, but there are more issues other
than greenhouse gases in the meat-versus-plant debate
too. The case for meat includes the ability of an animal
to contribute constructively on an integrated farm
(chickens help with pest control), the potential for turning
105 food waste (spent grain, whey, expired dairy) into high-
quality protein, and the ability to use grasslands,
inappropriate for row crops (cotton, soybeans), to produce
human food (with grazing cows or goats).
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[11] But let's go back to where we began, with greenhouse
110 gases. Even if climate impact is your top priority, it's
important to look at the food data in the context of other
lifestyle factors. Eating beans is definitely better than
eating beef. Driving a Prius is better than driving a
Hummer. But one decision trumps every other -
115 potentially by orders of magnitude - and that's how
many children you have. No amount of bean-eating or
Prius-driving will compensate for reproducing, and it's
the childless, not the vegetarians, who are more likely to
save the planet. This doesn't mean that we should ignore
120 the benefits of beans and eco-friendly cars - or that we
shouldn't have kids - it just means that we should
acknowledge that human survival takes a climatic toll.
Our obligation isn't to minimize our carbon footprint at
the expense of all other considerations; it's to try to be
125 prudent, taking those considerations into account.
[12] There are many ways to do that, but no one label
- vegetarian, local or organic - has the corner on
responsibility. For me, animal welfare is important, and
my take on meat is that we should eat less of it, pay more
130 for it, use all of it and know where it's from. But that's
not the last word. There isn't a last word. While I think
we all need to pay attention to and be informed about the
issues, vegetarians shouldn't tell omnivores to eat quinoa
instead of pork any more than omnivores should tell
135 vegetarians to eat venison instead of quinoa.
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