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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Photograph and adapted text is from the article “Three Men and a Dog”, by Kevin Rushby, taken from
The Saturday Guardian Travel Section, 23 January 2010. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2010.
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Read carefully the passage overleaf. It will help if you read it twice. When you have done so, answer the questions. Use the spaces provided in the Question/Answer booklet.
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THREE MEN AND A DOG
impossible to tell. The steep grassy bank is slick with ice and snow. I take a couple of tentative steps down.
It would be very easy to lose control and slide.
You don’t need to lug a tent on a long-distance walk in the Lakes. Kevin Rushby and his two sons discover barn camping on a rite of passage hike with their young hound.
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in hotels and pubs. It’s an affable labrador-type creature laid out under the table, snoozing. At the hotel, Wilf isn’t like that. He runs riot. He loves hotels. He loves the way people drop crisps in the bar.
He sneaks into a neighbour’s room and sniffs their luggage for food.
Curiously, they laugh indulgently and say things like, “You’re a lovable chap, aren’t you?” A dog’s life doesn’t seem so bad, really. Wilf soon settles down on his dedicated luxury bed and sleeps like a baby. I spend the night half-awake, stirring at every doggy snort, worrying that he’ll get up and cock his leg on the four-poster. Mercifully that doesn’t happen. t’s so easy when they’re puppies. You stroll down the street and they come home exhausted. People stop and have conversations.
“Aren’t you gorgeous?” (That can be disappointing, of course: it’s the dog who is being addressed, not you). Then they get bigger. They want proper walks. They want sticks thrown. We got a mongrel terrier pup from a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Photograph and adapted text is from the article “Three Men and a Dog”, by Kevin Rushby, taken from
The Saturday Guardian Travel Section, 23 January 2010. © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2010.
0860/29/11
NATIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
2012
THURSDAY, 26 APRIL
1.00 PM – 1.50 PM
ENGLISH
STANDARD GRADE
General Level
Reading
Text
Read carefully the passage overleaf. It will help if you read it twice. When you have done so, answer the questions. Use the spaces provided in the Question/Answer booklet.
*0860/29/11*
SA 0860/29/11 6/56310
©
THREE MEN AND A DOG
impossible to tell. The steep grassy bank is slick with ice and snow. I take a couple of tentative steps down.
It would be very easy to lose control and slide.
You don’t need to lug a tent on a long-distance walk in the Lakes. Kevin Rushby and his two sons discover barn camping on a rite of passage hike with their young hound.
1
2
3
4
5
I
in hotels and pubs. It’s an affable labrador-type creature laid out under the table, snoozing. At the hotel, Wilf isn’t like that. He runs riot. He loves hotels. He loves the way people drop crisps in the bar.
He sneaks into a neighbour’s room and sniffs their luggage for food.
Curiously, they laugh indulgently and say things like, “You’re a lovable chap, aren’t you?” A dog’s life doesn’t seem so bad, really. Wilf soon settles down on his dedicated luxury bed and sleeps like a baby. I spend the night half-awake, stirring at every doggy snort, worrying that he’ll get up and cock his leg on the four-poster. Mercifully that doesn’t happen. t’s so easy when they’re puppies. You stroll down the street and they come home exhausted. People stop and have conversations.
“Aren’t you gorgeous?” (That can be disappointing, of course: it’s the dog who is being addressed, not you). Then they get bigger. They want proper walks. They want sticks thrown. We got a mongrel terrier pup from a