5B Monday Tutorial 4

30/11/2020
S.5 English Language
Paper 1 Reading
Name: Date:
Class: ( ) Time allowed : 1 hr
No. of pages: 4

Instructions to students:
1. Write all your answers in the Question-Answer Sheet.
2. DO NOT take away this booklet. It will be collected separately at the end of the examination.
3. DO NOT write any answers in this booklet because they will not be marked.

Reading Passages
Text 1
Read the restaurant advertisements below and then answer questions 1-14. (18 marks)

DINING OUT
Ⓐ Benny’s Beach Café
Kids eat free every Saturday! Just present this advertisement with every purchase of an adult meal
and your little one’s lunch is on us. Come along for family fun and a special children’s show by Eezee
the Clown.
We bring great food to the beach!
18 Front Street, Shek O, 2753 9433 Email: bennysbeachcafe@hotmail.com
(Offer valid from 11am – 4pm on Saturdays. Children must be under 10 to qualify.)
Ⓑ Chez Moi
It’s time for an authentic French dining experience. Every month, you can enjoy a new set menu
dedicated to a different region of France. This month at Chez Moi, try the best dishes of Burgundy.
For just $280, you can have a four course set dinner, including frog’s legs, escargots, duck and
strawberry tarts.
3/f, Golden Plaza, 280 Clearview Rd, Central, 2561 0359
190, South Bay Rd, Repulse Bay, 2967 6798
Open daily 12pm – 3pm and 6pm – 10.30pm. Takeaway and delivery available. Order online at
www.chezmoi.com.
Ⓒ Emperor’s Cantonese Kitchen
Order ne set menu meal for $120 or more and get a second set menu meal absolutely free.
(This offer does not apply to dim sum.)
2/F, Sunning Court, 600 Nathan Rd, Kowloon (2 minutes from Jordon MTR station) 2867 0221, 2867
0231 (Sorry, parking is no longer available.) Free delivery in Kowloon.
Ⓓ Great Wall

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 Hong Kong Dining Delight Magazine Award winner: Best Beijing Restaurant (every year since 1999).
We specialize in Beijing-style dishes and offer Beijing opera performances nightly after 9pm.
Hong Kong Island: 2/F, Avery Centre, 28 Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai, 2215 5550
Kowloon: 3/F, Cooper Court, 1108 Montree Ave, Tsim Sha Tsui, 2115 5525
Reservations highly recommended.
Ⓔ Papa Pola’s Italian Restaurant
Join us for our Sunday lunch buffet, with songs from our popular Italian band. The buffet includes
traditional Italian-style pizza, homemade pasta, a large selection of salads, delicious vegetarian
dishes and a special children’s menu.
Shop A, G/F, Island Plaza, 808 King’s Rd, North Point, 2262 4200
Open from 7am to 1am, Thursday-Tuesday. Free delivery on Hong Kong Island.
Ⓕ Samurai Steak and Seafood House
Enjoy a complimentary appetizer while our chefs prepare a teppanyaki feast right before your eyes!
This promotion is valid from Monday to Thursday only.
G/F, Mercury Tower, 10 Gloucester Rd (opposite Victoria Park), 2832 2388, 2832 2389
MTR station: Causeway Bay (Exit F). Open daily for lunch and dinner.

Text 2
Read the following article and then answer questions 15-30. For multiple-choice questions, choose
the best answer for each question and write the appropriate letter in the box provided. For other
questions, write your answer in the space provided. (21 marks)

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 NO NEED TO FEEL JUMPY ABOUT THIS NEW DELICACY

➊ When I first visited the village of Bo Talo in central Thailand in 1998, my Thai friends
enthusiastically invited me to try the famous local specialty. It wasn’t until after I had a large
mouthful of the tender, spicy meat and declared it ‘Delicious!’ that they told me what it was –
fresh, stir-fried frog.
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➋ The people of Bo Talo are proud of the muddy brown, bumpy-skinned frogs that they have
been raising for decades. Live frogs are exported in large numbers to Taiwan where frogs and frog
soup are very popular. However, in recent years, so many Thai farmers have begun rearing frogs
that excess frogs have been left leaping about restlessly in their concrete pools. The price of frogs
10 has dropped drastically, too, leaving the people of Bo Talo with a problem.

➌ __(a)__, when I revisited Bo Talo last year, I was greeted all along the roadside by vendors
selling small pyramids of blue-labelled cans. __(17)__ to use all those extra frogs – pre-cooking
and canning them as Big Frog ready-to-eat frog meat.

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➍ ‘You foreigners are used to seeing cans showing happy tuna fish __(18)__,’ my friend Subin
argued __(19)__, ‘so why not cans with a smiling cartoon frog licking its lips?’ He went on to
explain that canned frog had become a hot seller, __(20)__.

➎ ‘The meat is already chopped up and deep-fried before it’s canned, so you can just open the can
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and eat it,’ Subin told me. ‘It comes in two flavours – spicy chilli or sweet and sour. My family
often has it with rice as a meal. Personally, I enjoy eating it straight out of the can. It’s the perfect
snack to go with a cold drink.’

➏ To prove his point, the next afternoon, Subin sat me down at the chipped concrete table in front
of his family’s house for a late afternoon snack of canned frog in chilli sauce, washed down with
tall glasses of iced lime soda. I have to admit, the combination was irresistible and we ended up
finishing two cans. I was sold.

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 ➐ Just as I was preparing to leave, still licking my lips (in imitation of frog on the Big Frog can),
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Subin’s mother rushed out with five more cans of the sweet and sour variety for me to take home.
‘Here, here, take them, young man,’ she said when I resisted. ‘You can’t easily find canned frog in
Bangkok. People just snap it up.’

➑ ‘Hurry back and I’ll introduce you to another of my favourite snack foods,’ Subin grinned as I
started off. ‘A village not far from here specializes in fried crickets.’

Source: Freely adapted from Watcharaporn Taithongchai, ‘The future in a can’ in the Bangkok Post, 19th January 2005 and Watcharaporn Taithongchai, ‘Thai frog-

farming village finds self-preservation in a can’, URL:http//thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/18, 18th January 2005.

Text 3
Read the following article and then answer questions 31-50. For multiple-choice questions, choose
the best answer for each question and write the appropriate letter in the box provided. For other
questions, write your answer in the space provided. (28 marks)

HOW JUNK FOOD MARKETING TARGETS CHILDREN

(1) You have probably witnessed a scene like this: a parent walking through a supermarket,
followed by a pleading young child clutching a packet of potato chips. The parent gives in,
hoping the child will behave, but in the next aisle the child spots a favourite cereal and the
whining begins again.
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(2) Increasing numbers of children are overweight because they want just about every sugary,
greasy, proce4ssed food that they lay eyes on. From the day a child is first exposed to the
outside world, they are surrounded with the persuasive messages of the junk food industry. In
the past ten years, the amount of junk food advertising aimed at children has doubled – and
the target for these advertisements may be children as young as three years old. It can be hard 10
enough for adults to resist these adverts, but for a child to resist is almost impossible.

(3) The aim, of course, is to ensure that children pester their parents into buying junk food. How
can parents, who want to encourage their children to eat healthy food, fight the effects of
these unhealthy messages? This is a difficult task – but parents can start by having an
awareness of the powerful methods that junk marketers use to influence their children.
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(4) One method parents can look out for is the use of celebrity endorsements. Soft drink and junk
food companies frequently use popular athletes, actors and pop singers to promote their less-

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 than-nutritious products. Both Pepsi and Coke are promoted by a series of international pop
stars. Snickers chocolate bars have a TV advertisement filmed in a baseball players’ locker 20
room and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes is promoted by basketball stars. Children often see these
high-profile people as role models and therefore feel that the products they endorse must be
worthwhile. The underlying message to children – aside from ‘buy this product’ – is that
eating these products can make them a celebrity or athlete, or give them the false belief that
the products might at least make them look or perform like one.
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(5) Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons are, not surprisingly, another means that junk food
marketers use to target children. Ninety per cent of food advertisements shown during
weekend morning children’s TV programmes are for sugary cereal, candy and fast food –all
products of low nutritional value. By the time parents head to the supermarket in the
afternoon, their children’s minds will have been thoroughly saturated with images of the junk
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(6) On weekdays, children may be sent off to school with money to buy a healthy lunch, but their
parents’ plans may soon be sabotaged by junk food marketers where they least expect them –
within the school. It is not uncommon for school hallways and canteens to be lined with
vending machines selling soft drinks and unhealthy snacks. A number of schools make 35
marketing deals with soft drink companies to receive payments based on how many drinks
are sold. The revenues are used to support various academic and after-school activities, but
what activity could be worth putting the students’ health at risk?

(7) In addition, junk food marketers have not misses the most recent opportunity to target
children – the Internet. Almost every major junk food product has its own web site designed 40
to appeal to children, with interactive games based on the product. Although children may
think they are simply playing a game, the games typically have a junk food theme that
exposes them to nutritionally useless products even during their leisure time.

(8) The messages of the junk food industry are inescapable. Although no parent can shelter their
child from every advertisement out there, parents can sit down with their children and discuss 45
the advertisements they see. They can explain that a business is selling the product and guide
them in identifying deceptive messages. Parents must also make sure that they are good role
models for their children. If parents allow junk food marketing to influence their own food
choices, they’ll have a hard time convincing their children not to be influenced as well.

Source: Adapted from Dr Joseph Mercola with Rachael Droege, ‘Four ways junk food marketing targets your kids’, URL:

http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/26/junk_food_marketing.htm, 26th Novemeber 2003.

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