ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Read the passage in the insert and then answer all the questions which follow below.

You are recommended to answer the questions in the order set.

Mistakes in spelling, punctuation and grammar may be penalised in any part of the Paper.

From paragraph 1:

1 (a) Where was Jameela going that evening?

(b) What was Rose going to do that evening?

(c) Give two reasons why Rose ‘was not to be dissuaded’. Number your answers (i) and (ii).

(d) Jameela returned ‘four hours later’. In what way did that show her ‘unrealistic attitude towards time’?

From paragraph 2:

2 (a) Explain what ‘Jameela’s insult’ was.

(b) Rose thought that Jameela was ‘probably right’. Why else did she decide to ignore the insult?

From paragraph 3:

3 Why was Jameela happy?

From paragraph 4:

4 (a) Give two reasons why it seemed as if Nizam’s car might not be capable of taking the girls to the airport. Number your reasons (i) and (ii).

(b) Pick out and write down the single word in the paragraph which shows that Nizam disapproved of Rose’s luggage.

From paragraph 5:

5 Before they looked for the ticket office, the girls were ‘smiling’. Explain in your own words why they were smiling.

From paragraph 6:

6 The girls ‘hurled themselves’ onto the waiting train. What effect does the writer create here that would not have been created by the word ‘boarded’?

From paragraph 8:

7 Explain fully what Rose thought might happen to the taxi driver, and why.

From paragraph 10:

8 (a) Explain in your own words how Rose ‘showed her exasperation with her friend’.

(b) Rose ‘read fear in Jameela’s eyes’. Explain exactly what two things Jameela was afraid Rose would do. Number your answers (i) and (ii).

From the whole passage:

9 Choose five of the following words or phrases. For each of them give one word or short phrase (of not more than seven words) which has the same meaning that the word has in the passage.

1. diversions (line 3)

2. mused (line 12)

3. tension (line 44)

4. soothing (line 45)

5. tailed off (line 56)

6. initiative (line 57)

7. narrowly (line 71)

8. smug (line 76)

10 The girls had a nightmare journey from the airport to the express train.

Using your own words as far as possible, write a summary of the difficulties and anxieties the girls encountered from the time they reached the airport until the time they got onto the express train at Central Station in the city centre.