Deconstructing Paper 1

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Answer Key 4. depicted: ‘censored’ does not complete the
sentence meaningfully
5. censorship: ‘freedom’ is semantically wrong;
Activity P. 2 it does-in a sense- contradict the notion of
Extract 1- main idea: the ease of speaking a non- ‘allegations of political correctness’
dominant language
6. demanding: as opposed to ‘foregoing’- which
Extract 2- main idea: the benefits of recognizing means ‘waiving’ or ‘giving up’- ‘demanding’
women’s rights in Mauritius adds meaning to the sentence and the text,
especially when combined with ‘democracy’
Activity PP. 4&5 (line 18)
Extract 1 7. when: ‘before’ does not make sense because we
1. gentleman farmer in-shire cannot defend our friends before the attack
2. ambition 8. not: since ‘but now’ follows, the sentence
is complete when ‘not’ is used rather than
3. not very willingly
‘perhaps’. ‘Perhaps’, in fact, changes the
4. ambition was the surest way to ruin and meaning completely and renders ‘but now’
change but another word for destruction incoherent
5. bettering 9. still: ‘still’ emphasizes the need for monitoring
6. condition bias and discriminatory practices in the media.
7. (transmit the parental acres) to my children in, ‘Perhaps’ denotes lack of decisiveness, which
at least, as flourishing a condition (as he left does not match the tone adopted in the extract.
them to me) 10. daily: the use of ‘daily’ here renders the
8. dumpy figure sentence meaningful; demanding responsibility,
accountability, etc… should engulf ‘daily’
9. the narrator’s sister/Rose (accept different
practices.
wording with the same meaning)
10. doubtless
Activity PP. 7&8
Extract 1
Extract 2
1. through
1. because it still encounters stiff opposition from
different parties in India 2. significant
2. English 3. international
3. partisans 4. constant
4. India will become a backwater in world affairs 5. where
5. they have stylized literary forms 6. historically
6. plethora 7. whose
7. because of its complex social realities/ because 8. evil
its languages reflect its intricate levels of social 9. accused
hierarchy and caste 10. decimating
8. the higher the speaker’s status, the more speech
forms there are at his or her disposal Extract 2
1. j
Example p. 7 2. b
3. racial: to begin with, ‘racist’ is used in the 3. f
preceding line. ‘daily’ does not make sense
4. h
because of the use of every time, and ‘hidden’
or ‘cautious’- for example- do not meaningfully 5. a
complement hear.

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Activity PP. 10 & 11 Activity PP. 18 & 19

Extract 1 Extract 1
C/ D/ F/ G 1. Kelsey Winters & Sarah Mosby
2. Maria Espinoza & Philip Holdsworth
Extract 2 3. Sarah Mosby
A/ D/ F/ G 4. Maria Espinoza
5. Philip Holdsworth (the mistake in the
A/ D/ F/ G Activity PP. 13 & 14 sentence structure in the original text is made
Extract 1 on purpose. One would expect mistakes to
appear in testimonials and should be able to
1. True—(students are willing to take advantage
understand what is meant.)
of) state-of-the-art technologies
2. False— E-learning consists of both real-time
and asynchronous classes Extract 2
3. alse—furnishing multimedia in the classroom 1. Karen Vanuska
previously deemed impossible 2. Martha L. Henning
4. True—(educational content providers) should 3. Miriam Wynn (her is missing in the question…
heed the adage that content is king please modify; question should read: compares
5. True— fluency in the target language (with the rigour of the course to his/her university
native to near native accuracy, according to the courses)
foreign language learner’s proficiency level,) 4. Jill Stegman
would be the norm (instead of the exception) 5. Kim Inman
6. Melissa Dyrdahl
Extract 2 7. Kim Inman
1. False— (while explaining why) she’s going to 8. Melissa Dyrdahl/ George Patrick Dovel
resist 9. Robert Rebele
2. True— (“I’ve put on weight from all the muscle 10. Melissa Dyrdahl
milk,” she says,) sounding alarmed
3. False— Her trim figure and lively manner
betray that of a woman half her age/ it’s hard to
Activity PP. 20&21
believe that she’s nearly 87 Kindly note that some of the specified line numbers
in the book are incorrect. The correct line numbers
4. False—is currently starring on Broadway (in
are shown below.
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)
5. True— she won the Tony Award (in 2009) for
the role Extract 1
1. D
Activity PP. 15 & 16 2. I
Extract 1 3. Q
1. C 4. E
2. C 5. (feat: line 13) C
3. B 6. N
4. A 7. J
8. (fastened: line 23) L
Extract 2 9. (laconic: line 28) A
1. B 10. (swapping: line 35) G
2. B
3. B Extract 2
4. D 1. L
2. O
3. H

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4. G Activity PP. 28&29

5. (Deductive: Line 14) R Extract 1
6. (Served: Line 27)Q 1. K
7. (Usual: Line 30) I 2. A
8. (Connection: Line 35) A 3. J
9. (Brilliant: line 36) C 4. F
10. (Sidekick: Line 39) J 5. G
6. L
Activity PP. 22&23
Kindly note that some of the specified line Extract 2
numbers in the book are somewhat incorrect. The
1. H
actual phrases appear either on the line specified or
start/end on the line before it. 2. C
3. A
Extract 1 4. E
1. The (farmhouse) kitchen
2. The window nook Activity P. 31
3. The (musty farm) parlour Extract 1

4. (line 39) Mrs Ladbruk & her family/ The 1. the turbulence of the countries around it
Ladbruks (accept different wording with the 2. shares no close derivation with any of those
same meaning/ do not accept Mrs Ladbruk on spoken around
its own) 3. obliges
5. The farm
6. Emma Ladbruk/ Mrs Ladbruk Extract 2
1. False—the text states that ‘none (no shows)
Extract 2 focusing on fighting or violence
1. The United States of America 2. (these themes did appear in Canadian programs
2. The writer’s parents/ Jay Patel’s parents aimed at kids ages [sic] 6-12, but represented
only one in 10 shows: ) social relationships,
3. Assimilating into the American culture/ the adventure and learning were all found much
American culture more often
4. students 3. D
5. handvo/ the traditional Gujarati snack 4. B
6. adapting to host nation
Activity P. 33
Activity PP. 25&26 Extract 1
Extract 1 1. They were less successful than Top Gun
1. E 2. D
2. G 3. True— the Ray-Ban glasses in Top Gun were
3. H made popular by Cruise in a similar fashion to
4. A those used in Risky Business. The text claims
that “Just as he had done three years earlier in
Risky Business, Cruise popularized another line
Extract 2
of Ray-Ban sunglasses”.
1. H
2. F
Extract 2
3. B
1. (in question, text on the left, not above) the hue
4. G of slate, with tops of foaming white/ similar to
the colours of the waves during the storm
2. They were all (experienced) sailors

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Extract 3 Extract 2
1. False— the text states that “one in five stay- 1. shame
at-home fathers saying that their role makes 2. I never was great in matters of detail
them feel ‘less of a man’. This means that 80%
3. (‘she was not a creature’: Line 23) the ship/
of stay-at-home dads feel that their role does
Paul Jones
affect the way they regard themselves.
4. exultant
2. that they think holding down a job is harder
than looking after children or that they have 5. pity and compassion (do not accept contempt)
not admitted that holding down a job is easier 6. a. sneezed
than looking after children. b. moved to a position where they could see
him
Activity PP. 35&36 7. to get the “bronzed and weather beaten look of
Extract 1 an old traveler”
1. a fashionable one
2. (Mrs and Mrs Roger Button) were fifty years
ahead of style
3. as an anachronism
4. C
5. obvious
6. the birth of the Buttons’ child
7. False— doctors were required to rub their
hands by “the unwritten ethics of their
profession”
8. as a picturesque period
9. after a fashion/ outrageous, curious expression/
curious glance/ appeared somewhat irritated/
perfect passion of irritation

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