ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE HGPAPER 1 GRADE 12SEPTEMBER 2003

TIME 2½ HOURSTOTAL: 100

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This paper contains 4 questions. Answer them in numerical order, starting the answer to each question at the top of a page.

2. Multiple choice questions are indicated by an asterisk [*]. For these questions write down only the number of the question and the letter of the most appropriate answer.

3. Leave a line open after each answer: it makes the page easier to read.

4. Write as neatly and correctly as you can, and do not use correction fluid.

5. Answer in your own words unless you are asked to quote.

QUESTION 1: COMPREHENSION

Carefully read TEXT ONE (A and B) and answer the questions that follow:

TEXT ONE (A)

Prize-winning Photograph Sudan, 1993, Photojournalist, Kevin Carter, prepared to take a picture of a tiny girl struggling to make her way to a feeding centre. As he did so, a vulture landed nearby. This is the image that was then reprinted in newspapers around the world

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TEXT ONE (B) The Life and Death of Kevin Carter

(1) The image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epitomised Sudan’s famine would win Kevin Carter fame – and hopes for anchoring a career spent hounding the news, free-lancing in war zones, waiting anxiously for assignments amid dire finances, staying in the line of fire for that one great picture. On May 23, 14 months after capturing that memorable scene, Carter walked up to the dais in the classical rotunda of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library and received the Pultizer Prize for feature photography. The South African soaked up the attention. “I swear I got the most applause of anybody,” Carter wrote back to his parents in Johannesburg. “I can’t wait to show you the trophy. It is the most precious thing, and the highest acknowledgement of my work I could receive.”

(2) Carter was fêted at some of the most fashionable spots in New York city. Restaurant patrons, overhearing his claim to fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela’s new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world’s best photojournalists. “It can be a very glamo-rous business,” says Sygma’s U.S. Director, Elaine Laffont. “It’s very hard to make it, but Kevin is one of the

few who really broke through. The pretty girls were falling for him, and everybody wanted to hear what he had to say.”

(3) There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. “I’m really, really sorry,” he explained in a note left beneath a knapsack. “The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.”

(4) How could a man who had moved so many people with his work end up a suicide so soon after his great triumph? The brief obituaries that appeared around the world suggested a morality tale about a person undone by the curse of fame.

(5) With the Pulitzer, Carter had to deal not only with acclaim but also with the critical focus that comes with fame. Some journalists in South Africa called his prize a ,“fluke”, alleging that he had somehow set up the tableau. Others questioned his ethics. “The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering,” said the St Petersburg (Florida) Times, “might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene.” Even some of Carter’s friends wondered aloud why he had not helped the girl.

(6) Carter was painfully aware of the photojournalist’s dilemma. “I had to think visually,” he said once, describing a shoot-out. “You are making a visual here. But something inside is screaming, ‘My God’. But it is time to work. Deal with the rest later. If you can’t do it, get out of the game.” One of his colleagues commented, “Every photographer … has been affected. You become changed forever. Nobody does this kind of work to make themselves feel good. It is very hard to continue.”

Scott MacLeod, adapted from TIME Magazine

1.1 Describe the photographer’s INTENTION in TEXT ONE (A). (2)

1.1.1 Explain how your understanding of TEXT ONE (B) is ENHANCED by seeing the photograph in TEXT ONE (A).

(2)1.2 Refer to the quotation below. The image presaged no celebration: a child

barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. (line 1, Text One (B)). 1.2.1 This statement is an example of

A. irony. B. understatement. C. litotes. D. Paradox.

(1)2.2.2 The word closest in meaning to “presaged” would be

A. allowed. B. preferred. C. predicted. D.  intended.

(1)

1.3 With reference to the rest of paragraph 1, explain how the photograph made Carter famous.

(2)1.4 The word “soaked” is used FIGURATIVELY in paragraph 1. Write down the

meaning of this word as it is used here as well as its LITERAL meaning.(2)

1.5 The word “fêted” is used in paragraph 2. The dictionary offers the following definitions of the word: A. to host or amuse a person / people. B. to make much of someone. C. to feast. D. to give a fête in honour of. Write down the definition that is closest in meaning to the way the word is used

in paragraph 2. (1)

1.6“It’s very hard to make it, but Kevin is one of the few who really broke through.” (paragraph 2) 1.6.1 Explain what is meant by the phrase “to make it” in this sentence.

(2)1.6.2 Quote TWO words or phrases from paragraph 2 that indicate that Carter had

now, in fact, “made it”. (2)

1.7 The words “photograph” (paragraph 1) and “autograph” (paragraph 2) both end in “graph”, meaning “to write”.

1.7.1 From this, deduce the meaning of the words quoted above. (2)

1.7.2In the light of the information given above, what JOB would a graphologist perform?

(1)1.8 Refer to paragraph 3. 1.8.1 The first line of the paragraph states “There would be little time for that”. What is

being referred to here?(1)

1.8.2 Describe the TONE used in the second sentence to inform readers of Kevin Carter’s death.

(1)1.9 A RHETORICAL QUESTION is used to open paragraph 4. 1.9.1 Discuss the effect the writer wished to achieve in using this device.

(2)

1.9.2 What possible answer is given to the question in this paragraph? (1)

1.10 Refer to paragraph 5. 1.10.1Which TWO aspects of fame are highlighted in the first sentence of this paragraph?

(2)1.10.2 On what grounds did some of the media attack Carter?

(2)1.11 In paragraph 6 mention is made of “the photojournalist’s dilemma”. Explain, in

your own words, the dilemma faced by photojournalists. (2)

1.12 An error of CONCORD has been made in the final quotation of this passage. Write out the sentence, correcting the error, and UNDERLINE what has been changed.

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QUESTION 2: SUMMARYTEXT TWO: Photojournalism Carefully read the following passage and then answer the questions which follow.

(1) At its best, photojournalism is a compassionate act of witness. Photojourna-lists have brought us close to great world events and allowed us to share the joys and tragedies of ordinary people. In the United States the art’s golden age seemed to die with the closing of Look in 1971 and the weekly LIFE in 1972. Television was bringing visual news, with greater speed, to more homes than any magazine. Yet as the markets shrank, the number of young people involved in it showed no signs of diminishing. (2) In fact, an altogether new breed has emerged, producing different work in a different way. Instead of waiting for magazine assignments, they choose projects they care deeply about, funding them with grants from charitable organisations or squeezing them between commercial jobs such as corporate annual reports. Their narrative style is different too. Instead of telling a tale with a beginning, middle and end, they offer a collection of facets, weaving a complex tapestry of information that demands a high level of participation from the viewer. (3) Photojournalists are important because they keep us on our toes. They remind us of injustices we would rather forget and of achievements we might have overlooked. We are more complete because of their passionate watch on the world.

Adapted from LIFE Magazine.2.1 POINT-FORM SUMMARY TEXT ONE (B) and TEXT TWO deal with the LIFESTYLE and ATTITUDES of photojournalists. Both positive and negative aspects and qualities are highlighted. Use

the reference and headings given below to write your summary. Make a summary of the positive and negative aspects of the lifestyle and attitudes of photojournalists. Copy the table below and complete the information using the passage and paragraph references given.

LIFESTYLE AND ATTITUDE OF PHOTOJOURNALISTS

POINT NO. PARAGRAPH NO. SUMMARYRefer to text ONE (B)

1 12 13 14 6

Refer to text TWO5 26 27 28 29 310 3

Write in POINT FORM and use only one line per point./10/

QUESTION 3: PERSUASIVE WRITING, VISUAL LITERACY AND LANGUAGE

(1) Recall a moment from your childhood. Recall a moment of joy. Recall a moment from yesterday. (2) What you see are single frames from the album of memory. We have always had photographs, but for millennia these pictures remained invisible to all but their maker. Then we invented the camera, and suddenly it became possible to see inside another’s mind. Among the several astonishing uses of photography, the first is that it is the instrument through which we share memory. There are others. (3) Photographs create collisions of time. We can shuffle the decades with them – place an Indy 500 racing machine next to a speedster of the 1920s, or a cavalry charge next to a carrier fleet. We can reach back 150 years and bring forth an instant of history.(4) They collapse space – put us in Moscow or Madagascar or on the moon. They allow us to become citizens of the world and, increasingly, of the universe. (5) They reveal what the eye cannot see. They take us inside a human cell or to the blackest chamber of a deep cave. They can stretch the angle of vision and show us a landscape as only a hawk could see it. (6) They capture emotion. A grin, a grimace, a tear, a frown, a hug. (7) They record the past, its wars, its games, its glories, its injustices.

(8) They celebrate life. (LIFE MAGAZINE)

3.1 Good use of REPETITION is evident in this passage. Discuss the effects achieved through repeating

3.1.1 “Recall a moment” in paragraph 1; and 3.1.2 “They” in paragraphs 4 – 8.

(4)3.2 Identify the figure of speech used in the first sentence of paragraph 2.

(1)3.3 Another form of repetition is found in Paragraph 4. Provide the name of this

form of repetition.(1)

3.4 The main INTENTION of this passage is to EVOKE a response from its readers. 3.4.1 The intended response could be described as

A. Nostalgic. B. Sentimental. C. Inspirational.

D. Enthusiastic. (1)

3.4.2 Give a reason for your choice in Question 4.4.1 above.

(1)3.5 What does it mean to become “citizens of the world” (paragraph 4)?

(2)3.6 Examine the last sentence of paragraph 6.

... the child's one chance to grow properly in mind and body should be shielded from the mistakes, misfortunes and malignancies of the adult world. . .this protection should have a first call on society's concerns and capacities so it can be maintained in bad times as weII as good.

-from UNICEF's The Progress of Nations 199-4 report

WorldCup 94 has begun and we're the official camera, so we thought it would be a good time to run an ad. About something else.

June 17th was the first day of WorldCup 94. the world's biggest single-sport event. A good time to portray fitness, achievements, and well-being with action photography of professional players.But June 16th was the Day of the African Child, a

reminder of the June 1976 Soweto massacre and the continuing plight of African children. A good time to portray fitness, achievements, and well-being with action photography of not-so-professional players.

And given a choice of ad topics, we voted for the kids' goals.

We yearn for the day when UNICEF's goals for all African children, and not only those in the photograph, will be reality rather than promises. When cameras throughout Africa will be capturing fitness rather than malnutrition, achievements rather than tragedies, well-being rather than malaise.

UN1CEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is the world's best hope to hasten that day.

We share UN'ICEFs vision of global well-being through local development because it's how we conduct our own business, and we’re sharing this space to increase awareness of UN1CEF and its work.Thanks to that work, there is pro

The Children's Dreams.

A message from Roger Milla, Camerounian soccer star -WorldCup 1982,1990 and 1994.

I believe in Dreams. At the last WorldCup our tearn from Cameroon played better than many expected. It was a dream come true.

The success of Cameroon is an indication of the great potential Africa has. Too often, though, that potential remains untapped. There are many children who never get the chance to see how fast they can run, how high they can jump, or how many goals they can score. Instead of dreaming about being footballers, doctors or musicians, they struggle to survive.The WorldCup has given me a chance to speak for African children. I want to make sure their rights are protected. I want them to be immunized, and to see that children, especially girls, are educated. .And I want abandoned children to be cared for and protected.

I am thrilled to take part in this WorldCup-94. But I believe the most important goals that I, or anyone, can score, are in helping UNICEF ensure that in the future, all children will have the chance to follow their dreams.

Help UNICEF help children.

FOR the address of your nearest UNICEF office, write to UNICEF HQ. 3 N N Plaza, New York, New York 10017, USA.

3.6.1 Explain what this sentence lacks in order to be classified as a complete sentence.

(2) 3.6.2 Name the emotions which correspond with each of the physical actions listed in

this sentence. (5)

3.7 One of the rules of LISTING is broken in paragraph 7. Clarify this statement. (1)

3.8 Explain the final sentence of this passage in your own words.(2)3.9 Read the following advertisement and answer the questions

3.9.1 The main heading contains only.....A one subordinate clauseB two main clausesC two subordinate clauseD on co-ordinate clause

(2)3.9.2 The full stop after “ad.” in the heading indicates...

A an abbreviated word.B the end of the sentence.C a dramatic pause.D the end of the line.

(2)

3.9.3 "About something else" is a(n) ...A anti-climax.B climax.C innuendo.D euphemism.

(2)3.9.4 The hyphen in "single-sport event" in the first paragraph forms a ...

A compound pronoun.B double adjective. ,C compound adjective.D combined word.

(2)

3.9.5 The "fitness, achievements and well-being" refer to ...A soccer players.B photographers.C African children.D fitness fanatics.

(2)

3.9.6 The "fitness, achievements and well-being" in the second paragraph now refer to . . . .A soccer players.B photographers.C African children.D fitness fanatics.

(2)

3.9.7 "We voted for the children's goals" contains a ...A paradox.B malapropism.C pun.D metaphor.

(2)

3.9.8 The metaphor in the UNICEF quote is ...A "shielded".B "malignancies".C "bad".D "protection".

(2)

3.9.9 The vision Canon shares with Unicef, according to the copywriter, is ...A helping the locals to help themselves.B to improve the world; improve the community.C to advertise the word of Unicef.D to help progress in Africa.

(2)3.9.10 What Canon hopes sponsors will do is to..

A make a success of what seems hopelessB make a success of their projects.C help to make progress in Africa.D convert a disaster into success.

(2)

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QUESTION 4 - EDITING(This includes identifying and correcting errors, improving style and

correcting typing errors.)

NB: YOU WILL NEED TO READ THE TEXTS VERY CAREFULLY IN ORDER TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

The letter appeared in You magazine. The editor published the 12-year-old’s letter without editing the mistakes in order to maintain the flavour of the letter.

1. What’s happenin to our politions?2. I am a 12-year old girl and all ready sick of South Africa. 3. Our land is fallen apart around our very eye’s and no none’s noticing it because they to busy arguing.

4. People thingk children don’t understand what’s happening, but we do. 5. We are supposed to be the new leaders of the country, but after all this, there will be no country left. 6. I see people being shot down children too and I ask myself this one question, “What did they ever do to you?”

7. I am not looking forward to growing up if I am going to turn out like all the creeps who think they can do whatever they like and shoot and stone people.

8. And I also have something to say to all the politions and other high people out there: remember, you’re only humand and if this country goes down the drain like it looks like it’s goint to, you go down with it.Sick, Durbs.

4.1 Write down the correct spelling of the word “politions”, in sentence 1.(1)

4.2 Correct the spelling mistake in sentence 2.(1)

4.3 The incorrect form of the verb is used in sentence 3. Our land is fallen must be...(1)

4.4 In sentence three the incorrect preposition “around our” is used. Write down the correct preposition.

(1)4.5 Give a reason why we can say the apostrophe used incorrectly in the word

“eye’s”? Write down how the word should have been written.

(2)4.6 In sentence 3 the phrase “they to busy arguing” is incorrect. Correct this phrase.

(2)4.7 The phrase “new leaders” is incorrect in sentence 5. Substitute the word “new”

with a word that would be more appropriate for the intended meanind of the sentence.

(1)4.8 Rewrite sentence 5 and correct the punctuation. Underline any changes that you

make.(2)

4.9 Rewrite sentence 6 and correct the punctuation. Underline any changes that you make.

(3)4.10 Using the word “creeps” in a sentence is not appropriate. Change sentence 7 so

that it is not used.(1)

4.11 In sentence 8 the phrase “high people” is incorrect. Use the correct words.(2)

4.12 The word “like” is used inappropriately in sentence 8. Replace it with the correct word.

(1)4.13 Correct all the spelling mistakes in sentence 8.

(2)

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ADDENDUM AChip shops offer fat chance for fry-drive

revolutionWaste oil could fuel many more cars, if only there were more of it John VidalMonday October 21, 2002The Guardian A. Every week, sales manager Jim drives past several Shell and Esso garages

and heads for one of Britain's smallest oil companies, based in a shed on a trading estate near Doncaster.

B. He is met by Jane Myatt, the oil company's all-in-one chief executive, head chemist, top engineer and saleswoman. She fills his Renault Laguna with 20 litres of diesel, takes his money and then goes back to filtering old vegetable oil that has been used to fry fish and chips.

C. Ms Myatt's company, Envirodiesel, is invisible to Shell, Texaco and the big oil companies, but the fuel which she and two others make - "biodiesel" - is taking off fast as it dawns on people that Britain's estimated 30m diesel engines could be run more efficiently, economically and ecologically sensitively on chip fat than on conventional petrol-based diesel.

D. Envirodiesel makes about 3,000 litres a week. "It's not rocket science to make diesel from vegetable oils," says Ms Myatt, a trained chemist. "We collect the waste oil, clean it up, filter it, wash it, take out the contaminants - you can get anything from paper towels to fags and chips in it - then add methanol. The quantities have to be very precise to get it right, but it ends up clean and runny and then we wash it again and dry it. It can go straight in the engine."

E. These are boom times for Britain's few professional biodiesel makers. The largest are now making more than 5m litres a year, the majority under 10,000 litres a week. Most are expanding fast and are selling it for a few pence cheaper a litre than normal diesel.

F. Meanwhile an unknown number of amateur backwoodsmen are making small quantities and customs and excise, the police, the environment agency and local authorities would like to meet them.

G. Evading fuel taxes can, say the authorities, lead to vehicles being impounded, £2,000 fines and prison. Ironically, the case this month of Dyfed Powys police cracking down on the people of Llanelli who were dodging the 45p a litre tax by taking ordinary supermarket cooking oil and mixing it with a shot of methanol is thought to have helped popularise the legal purveyors of biodiesel.

H. The legal business, which mostly sells its fuel for as little as 63p a litre compared with 75p for petroleum-based fuel, attracts everyone from

techno-enthusiasts to green messianics. Some would like to convert more than your car, but all are united in being sniffy about the diesel sold by oil companies.

I. They call it "dino-diesel" (as in dinosaur) and they all rave about how their fuel is completely biodegradable, non-carcinogenic, non-mutagenic, non-allergenic and more energy efficient than the petrol equivalent.

J. Meanwhile biodiesel is rapidly becoming the greens' favourite fuel. Lili, a low impact, educational co-operative based in Buckinghamshire, offers weekend courses in how to make it. "The process is more complicated than you might think. It's reasonably simple but there are safety issues and I don't recommend making it without training," says John Halle, who is hoping to set up a co-operative.

K. "Your car may have a distinct Saturday-night, sweet, chippy smell, but it's better than dino-diesel," he says. "And the feeling of driving a car that is using recycled fuel is awesome."

ADDENDUM B Inventor driven by a humanitarian vision

1. In 1893, the German inventor Rudolph Diesel published a paper called The Theory and Construction of a Rational Heat Engine. It described a revolutionary engine in which air would be compressed by a piston to a very high pressure, causing a high temperature.

2. Diesel was motivated by a humanitarian vision. He thought that his highly efficient engine, which was adaptable in size and could use various fuels, would allow threatened independent craftsmen and artisans to take on the large industries which virtually monopolised the dominant power source of the time - the expensive, fuel-wasting steam engine.

3. Diesel expected his engine would be powered by vegetable oils such as hemp and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, he ran them on peanut oil.

4. By then Diesel was a millionaire and his engines were used to power pipelines, boats, electric and water plants, cars, trucks and ships.

5. He died mysteriously in 1913 on a steamer crossing from Antwerp to Harwich. While his death has never been fully explained, conspiracy theorists believe he was assassinated by the German government, which was preparing for war. Diesel was friendly with many of his British counterparts and, shortly after his death, Germany introduced the diesel-engined U-boats which terrorised the Atlantic. This was not technology they would have wanted to share.

6. Within a few years, the petroleum companies had monopolised the market for cheap fuel and it was largely forgotten that all diesel engines could be powered on just about anything.

ADDENDUM C

THE RABBITWILL FOLLOW

THE LION

The animal Anti-Cruelty League (AA-CL)and the manufacturers of Like Silk beautycare products wish to announce their jointdecision to discontinue the use of the AA-

CL logo on Like Silk products are any otherpackaging. This decision was taken

primarily because the AA-CL felt that itlacks adequate facilities and experience to

monitor products in the cosmetics field.

The use of the AA-CL logo, Androcles andthe Lion, will accordingly be phased out by

the end of 1990 and replaced by a nowinternationally recognised cruelty-freesymbol of the rabbit as featured here.

The Animal Anti-Cruelty League wishes to express its continued appreciation of the

laudable efforts made by companies such asLike Silk in the cosmetic field and all other

companies which manufacture theirproducts from ingredients of strictly non-

animal origin, and do not conduct tests onanimals.

A LIKE SILK - ANIMAL CRUELTY LEAGUE ANNOUNCEMENT

ADDENDUM DD-1SUPERIOR TOURING Arrival and departure transfers

between the airport and your InsightLondon hotel (see page 11.)

Twin bedded rooms with privatefacilities in first class hotels.

Luxury air conditioned touring coachwith reclining seats and expansivepicture windows

Hotel service charges, taxesand porterage.

Stylish Insight flight bag, travelwallet and map.

Comprehensive pre-departureinformation pack.

D-2

What goes around...James Dalton shed tears after receiving a 30-day ban for his part in the ruckus against Canada. Perhaps he wasn't guilty of punching. He certainly wasn't the instigator of the brawl. But, in the same way James Small's omission from the British tour last year was a culmination of a number of niggles, so had Dalton been treading on thin ice for too long. Earlier in the game, he had stamped on a Canadian's knee far away from the ball. It was difficult not to sympathise as Dalton saw his dream slip away, but they say that the rough generally evens out with the smooth in sport. Here was evidence.

Peter DaviesPeter Davies, Editor

D-3COURGETTE AND CARROT MUFFINS500ml self-raising flour, sifted125ml soft brown sugar3ml bicarbonate of soda5ml ground cinnamon5ml ground mixed spice250ml finely grated carrots250ml finely grated courgettes100g walnuts, chopped2 eggs300ml skim milk90 ml polyunsaturated margarine, melted

MethodInto a large mixing-bowl, sift first five ingredients. Fold in grated carrots, courgettes and walnuts. Beat eggs, milk and margarine until blended. Pour into flour mixture and mix well.

Spoon into muffin pans sprayed with non-stick spray. Bake at 180¡, 25 to 30 minutes, or until risen and cooked through.Makes 12 muffins.

D-4INGREDIENTS: Cane Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Milk Solids, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Gelatine, Modified Starch, Citric Acid, Emulsifier, Pectin, Salt, Flavourants, Colourants.mnfd. by MISTER SWEET (PTY)LTD. Bezuidenhout Road, Wadeville, Gauteng. Product of The Republic of South Africa.

ADDENDUM E

Drunken Driver get 960 hours Weekend JailA. A Pinetown man with a history of alcohol abuse has been

jailed for 960 weekend hours and banned form driving a car for two years.

B. Jude Matthew Peterson 34 of Smithstreet Pinetown was yesterday convicted in the Durban Magistrates Court on two counts of driving while under the influence of liquor in Berea and Umbilo on October 15 and 16 last year. Both counts were taken as one for sentence.

C. Petersen pleaded guilty and in a statement before the court admited being an alcoholic.

D. The magistrate, Mr J. V. Thomas, sentenced him to 960 hours periodical imprisonment to be served at weekends.

E. He was placed under the supervision of a probation officer for a year and disqualified from obtaining a driver's licence/lisence for two years.