DSE English Language
Paper 1 (Reading)
by Alex Chan
Mock Paper
HKDSE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER 1
READING
Passages
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Text 1
Beware of Your Waistline
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It has been quite a long time since Priscilla Chui used her wok in her kitchen. Like
many Hong Kong people living in a quick pace, the audit executive says she has neither
the energy nor spare time to prepare food after a long working day. She and her husband
therefore dine out every day, which is very convenient in a city with more than eight
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thousand eateries. However eating healthy meals at restaurants can be a tall order.
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Restaurant meals may be easy and savoury, but nutritionists believe excessive
eating out is never beneficial to our health. ‘Many chefs make food with fatty meat instead
of lean cuts and even use huge amount of salt and additives such as monosodium
glutamate (MSG) to enhance the flavour,’ explains Winnie Leung, the principal nutritionist
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at the Centre for Nutritional Studies. Restaurant cooks are trained to prepare delectable
meals, rather than to weigh the nutritional value of the dishes. Traditional recipes for
northern-style Chinese food, such as Lion Head Meatballs, are prepared with fattening
meat. ‘We cannot expect them to make food in conformity with the recommended calories
and sodium standard. Serving something tasty in the limited time is always the first
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priority.’ Winnie comments.
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‘Too many meals at local greasy spoons, or tea houses, can bring pressure on
diners’ waistlines,’ says dietician Kim Kam, citing the example of two popular meals: fried
rice and braised pork ribs with salad sauce. Usually a plate of fried rice contains excessive
calories reaching 905, mainly due to its high fat content (35 grams or more) with about
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280mg of cholesterol. That is exactly half of the recommended daily intake of fat and all
the cholesterol. To lead a healthy life, each meal should not carry more than 800 calories.
In the meantime, the pork ribs contains even more fat, providing 60 percent of an ordinary
man’s daily energy requirements. ‘The above-mentioned meals for dinner every day can
add a kilogram to a man, and 1.8 kg to a woman’s weight within 5 days,’ Kam says.
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Chui is conscious about healthy diet and avoids having junk food, but her dietary
choices are restricted in the lunch-hour rush. She always grabs some food with her
colleagues in eateries near her Central office and assorted stir-fried meats or instant
noodles are their ready-to-eat favourites. Chui is dissatisfied with the limited menu
selections provided by most restaurants. ‘The dishes tend to be too salty and oily – even
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the vegetables – unless you, in advance, make a request of oil-free and sauce-free
dishes. My colleagues do not feel good to share meals with me,’ she expresses.
‘Restaurant staff never bothers to entertain my requests especially during the busy peak
hours.’ Portions provided by the set meals are also often too big. The amount of rice that
diners get is more than enough for two people, nutritionists say.
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Despite not significantly gaining any weight, Chui and her husband are now
seeking healthier dishes after a test last year revealed that her beloved one had a
seriously high cholesterol level. However, their food choices are not as many as
expected – restaurants are either too far from their residence, or providing few light
dishes. As Chui says, ‘A new Chinese restaurant claims to offer low-fat and MSG-free
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alternatives, but they taste just as greasy as those of other restaurants nearby.’ Winnie
Leung warns that the ‘healthy’ label sometimes can be deceptive. In particular,
egg-white omelettes and fried brown rice are not as healthy as what we expect. ‘Such
fare is prepared with a lot of oil and salt and the nutritional value is much lowered,’ she
says. The nutrients of wholesome vegetables may be offset if the vegetables are
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smothered with oyster sauce, and new-style vegetarian creations made from lots of
gluten or tofu can be fattening as the ingredients are deep-fried and heavily-salted. The
‘healthy’ label and vegetarian options are all about marketing strategies.
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According to Winnie Leung, a preliminary and effective way that health-conscious
people can control their diet is to cook themselves and bring self-prepared lunch to work
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more often. The nutritionist recommends eating out no more than once every day.
Something light is always preferable so that diners can afford the occasional indulgence
on special celebrations such as parties during festive seasons. People suffering from
diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases should never dine out more than twice a week.
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Such advice from nutritionists does not deter Ava Tong, a manager working in a
leading advertising company, who has virtually all her meals out. Constantly working in the
hustle and bustle, the mid-thirties grabs breakfast from a shop on the way to work,
ordering a muffin or sandwich to go with her tea. Lunch is often a quick meal in a nearby
fast-food chain, or takeaway meals such as sushi. Dinner is the moment she and her
boyfriend treat themselves. They are eager to explore new eateries and try seasonal
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dishes. After a few years of indulgence though, they are now advised by their doctor to
shed at least 5 kg each. ‘Having tasty food is the best way to replenish energy and help
relieve stress. It is a great compensation for our hard work,’ Ava says, disregarding their
doctor’s warning.
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Text 2
Any Alternative Jobs?
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Kumiko Yamanaka has had her life mapped out.
Everything, including her
conventional family upbringing, her father’s white-collar job and her mainstream
schooling, seemed to force her to be an OL, ‘office lady’.
Every year Japan’s junior
colleges churn out thousands of Yamanakas: young women trained as professional
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secretaries who, dressed in bright uniforms that Western corporations have abandoned
for decades, work in offices across Japan after their graduation.
The OL is as much a
part of the Japanese company culture as the harassed salarymen who clog the subway
every weekday morning.
Yamanaka dutifully enrolled in a suitable college without
considering the alternatives, and then the reality hit her.
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‘I had absolutely no desire to
become an OL,’ she says.
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Yamanaka gave up the college course and decided to join an acting troupe.
25-year-old’s only income came from serving scoops of ice cream for park visitors.
The
Now,
she is an aspiring voice-over artist, attending lessons at a professional school while
working part-time as a waitress.
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Voice-over work, such as dubbing the voices of cartoon
characters, is regarded as a ‘reasonable fall-back’ for those unable to find more
glamorous acting roles in Japan’s showbiz.
But even if she fails to be a good voice-over
artist, Yamanaka has no intention of joining mainstream employment.
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Recently, the ‘freeter’ movement has become one of Japan’s most intriguing and
controversial social phenomena.
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The word ‘freeter’ comes from the German word
‘Arbeiter’ (which means ‘workers’), and the English word ‘free’.
A freeter is a person who
has opted out of Japanese society’s traditional and rigid work ethic.
In post-war Japan,
this ethic has successfully motivated billions to work for the nation’s big companies.
Japanese workers traded their identities and lives for the security of lifetime employment.
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Though there have always been exceptions to the rigid work ethic, the freeter is
the first social class to directly confront Japan’s ‘corporate warriors’.
the result of necessity.
Some think this is
More than two decades of economic hardship in Japan has
made it impossible for modern Japanese to sustain the notion of life-long employment.
Middle-aged workers are pushed into premature retirement; meanwhile, for many firms,
the cost of maintaining the system for old workers is too high.
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Recent government figures reveal that job opportunities for high school graduates
have fallen to their lowest level on record.
This is clearly pushing the younger
generation to seek alternative jobs, where the competition is less fierce than the
mainstream jobs.
However, many of the freeters, like Yamanaka, are gladly opting out,
viewing their non-mainstream jobs as a blessing rather than a curse.
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much about lifestyle as job choice.
For them it is as
Yamanaka points out, ‘My loyalty remains with my
company when I’m working, but that once my work is over, my responsibility is to myself
only.’
Making her own choices about how to spend her time, Yamanaka would like to
use this freedom to pursue her own career goals.
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Most of the traditional Japanese, imbued with Confucian philosophy, find the idea
of putting individual freedoms before group or national goals impossible to follow.
These years, Japanese newspapers have been filled with angry editorials; Takayo
Nishiwaki, the chief editor of Asahi Shimbun, criticized the freeters for their laziness,
selfishness and unwillingness to settle down.
Most businessmen also find such people
impossible to understand; Kishikama Seiya, the CEO of a Japanese restaurant chain,
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thinks that they are doing nothing but delaying their real responsibilities, including
getting a stable job and raising their families.
From his point of view, the freeters,
sooner or later, will eventually have to accept these realities.
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The criticism stems from a wider view that Japanese youngsters are too soft to deal
with the nation’s social, economic and even political problems. While many criticise the
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freeters are heretical, Yamanaka is dismissive of the critics.
She thinks their viewpoint is
very narrow-minded, rejecting any suggestions that all freeters are lazy, and defends
those who are just respecting their own lifestyle choice. ‘If they want to be lazy, so be it.’
She says
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The appeal of the freeter is such that, in spite of the soaring unemployment rates,
corporations are struggling to fill traditional vacancies.
Colleges are starting to counsel
students on the demerits of alternative employment, but it is not an easy task.
friends like conventional jobs.
trains.
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No one wants to be salarymen.
‘None of my
You see them on the subway
Their faces are totally blank,’ says Yamanaka’s friend, fellow freeter Kento Iwasaki.
According to Japan’s Institute of Labour, freeters are classified into three categories:
those freeters who are waiting for the right jobs, ‘dream freeters’ looking for entertainment
sector and ‘dead-end freeters’ stuck in part-time or casual jobs due to their incapability to find
conventional jobs. Seiji Satake who has recently become a jobless man probably fits into the
last category.
At the age of 30 he was forced to work as freelance designer after being
unfairly sacked from his job as a hospital medical clerk.
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But anyone calling him as a freeter
does so at his or her peril. Satake finds the label offensive, preferring to be addressed as a
‘non-regular staff member’.
Satake’s gripe, shared by many freeters, is that the Japanese
authorities are psychologically ill-prepared and legally ill-equipped to deal with this new
phenomenon.
complaint.
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‘Salaries are low and work protection is minimal,’ he said in a letter of
He asserts that the lack of government support for those in non-mainstream
employment is shoving many to their spiritual and physical limits.
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Text 3
Harrison Bergeron
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.
God and the law.
than anybody else.
They weren’t only equal before
Nobody was smarter than anybody else.
Nobody was better looking
Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.
All this equality
was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the
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unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though.
people crazy by not being springtime.
April, for instance, still drove
And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men
took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard.
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Hazel had
a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in
short bursts.
And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little
mental handicap radio in his ear.
He was required by law to wear it at all times.
tuned to a government transmitter.
It was
Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would
send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of
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their brains.
George and Hazel were watching television.
There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but
she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about.
On the television screen were
ballerinas.
A buzzer sounded in George’s head.
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His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a
burglar alarm.
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‘That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did,’ said Hazel.
‘Yup,’ said George.
very good.
He tried to think a little about the ballerinas.
They weren’t really
They were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their
faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face,
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would feel like something the cat drug in.
George was toying with the vague notion that
maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped.
But he didn’t get very far with it before
another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.
George winced.
So did two out of the eight ballerinas.
Hazel saw him wince.
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Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what
the latest sound had been.
‘Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer,’ said George.
‘I’d think it would be real interesting, hearing all the different sounds,’ said Hazel a little
envious. ‘All the things they think up.’
‘Um...’ said George.
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said Hazel.
‘Only, if I was Handicapper General, you know what I would do?’
Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper
General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers.
‘If I was Diana Moon Glampers,’
said Hazel, ‘I’d have chimes on Sunday-just chimes, kind of in honor of religion.
I’d make a good Handicapper General.’
‘Good as anybody else,’ said George.
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‘Who knows better’n I do what normal is?’ said Hazel.
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I think
‘Right,’ said George.
He began to think glimmeringly about his abnormal son who was
now in jail, about Harrison, but a twenty-one-gun salute in his head stopped that.
‘Boy!’ said Hazel, ‘that was a doozy, wasn’t it?’
It was such a doozy that George was white and trembling, and tears stood on the rims of
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his red eyes.
Two of the eight ballerinas had collapsed to the studio floor, were holding
their temples.
‘All of a sudden you look so tired,’ said Hazel.
‘Why don’t you stretch out on the sofa,
so’s you can rest your handicap bag on the pillows, honeybunch.’
She was referring to
the 47 pounds of birdshot in a canvas bag, which was padlocked around George’s neck.
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‘Go on and rest the bag for a little while,’ she said.
‘I don’t care if you’re not equal to me
for a while.’
George weighed the bag with his hands.
more.
‘I don’t mind it,’ he said.
It’s just a part of me.’
‘You been so tired lately-kind of wore out,’ said Hazel.
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‘I don’t notice it any
‘If there was just some way we
could make a little hole in the bottom of the bag, and just take out a few of them lead balls.
Just a few.’
‘Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I took out,’ said George.
‘I don’t call that a bargain.’
‘If you could just take a few out when you came home from work,’ said Hazel.
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you don’t compete with anybody around here.
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You just set around.’
‘I mean -
‘If I tried to get away with it,’ said George, ‘then other people’d get away with it-and
pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against
everybody else.
You wouldn’t like that, would you?’
‘I’d hate it,’ said Hazel.
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‘There you are,’ said George.
‘The minute people start cheating on laws, what do you
think happens to society?’
If Hazel hadn’t been able to come up with an answer to this question, George couldn’t
have supplied one.
A siren was going off in his head.
‘Reckon it’d fall all apart,’ said Hazel.
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‘What would?’ said George blankly.
‘Society,’ said Hazel uncertainly.
‘Wasn’t that what you just said?’
‘Who knows?’ said George.
The television program was suddenly interrupted for a news bulletin.
It wasn’t clear at
first as to what the bulletin was about, since the announcer, like all announcers, had a
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serious speech impediment. For about half a minute, and in a state of high excitement,
the announcer tried to say, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen.’
He finally gave up, handed the bulletin to a ballerina to read.
‘That’s all right – ’ Hazel said of the announcer, ‘he tried.
tried to do the best he could with what God gave him.
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trying so hard.’
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That’s the big thing.
He
He should get a nice raise for
‘Ladies and Gentlemen,’ said the ballerina, reading the bulletin.
She must have been
extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous.
And it was easy to
see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers, for her handicap bags
were as big as those worn by two-hundred pound men.
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And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman
to use.
Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody.
‘Excuse me – ’ she said,
and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
‘Harrison Bergeron, age fourteen,’ she said in a grackle squawk, ‘has just escaped from
jail, where he was held on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government.
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He is a
genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely
dangerous.’
A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen-upside down, then
sideways, upside down again, then right side up.
The picture showed the full length of
Harrison against a background calibrated in feet and inches.
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He was exactly seven feet
tall.
The rest of Harrison’s appearance was Halloween and hardware.
heavier handicaps.
Nobody had ever born
He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H-G men could think
them up. Instead of a little ear radio for a mental handicap, he wore a tremendous pair of
earphones, and spectacles with thick wavy lenses.
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The spectacles were intended to
make him not only half blind, but to give him whanging headaches besides.
Scrap metal was hung all over him.
Ordinarily, there was a certain symmetry, a military
neatness to the handicaps issued to strong people, but Harrison looked like a walking
junkyard.
In the race of life, Harrison carried three hundred pounds.
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And to offset his good looks, the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber
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ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black
caps at snaggle-tooth random.
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Text 4
The Politics of “Harrison Bergeron”
Here is the author's presentation of the utopia's definition of equality: This year was 2081, and
everybody was finally equal.
than anybody else.
They weren’t only equal before God and the law. Nobody was smarter
Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker
than anybody else. This definition codifies the common American objections to both communist
and socialist nations. The author begins with the widespread assertion that the United States
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not only can and does know God's law, but that God's favourite country is instituting it.
The author continues to give a narration of how absurd society would be if egalitarianism, or
the absolute equality, were what America's dominant culture thinks it is. Then, the author
defines equality only in terms of intelligence, looks, and athletic ability. However, some aspects
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of equality are missing in the story.
Likewise, the story does not address the main purpose of leveling in other countries: income
redistribution. Hazel, Harrison's mother, wants the television announcer to get a raise; hence,
the definition of "equal in every way" cannot include incomes. The inequalities caused by class
differences are absent from this story. Also, equal access to education and medical care are
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not mentioned in the story.
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Mock Paper
HKDSE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER 1
READING
Questions & Answer Book
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Part A
Read Text 1 and answer questions 1-22.
(43 marks)
1. What is Priscilla Chui’s profession? ________________________________________________ 2. Look at the expression ‘tall order’ in line 5. Decide which of the following definitions below is closest in meaning. A. a menu item B. a pleasant activity C. a difficult thing to do D. a bill at a restaurant 3. Why do nutritionists think ‘excessive eating out isn’t good for you’ (lines 9‐10)? A. Eating out needs extra time. B. The ingredients used by restaurants are not healthy. C. The chefs are not professional to serve good meals. D. Flavor of the food cannot satisfy diner’s tastes. 4. Find a word in paragraph 2 that means ‘thin’. ________________________________________________ 5. Use ONE word to complete each blank. Restaurant chefs need to provide _______________ food as _______________ as possible. 6. In paragraph 3, ‘greasy spoons’ (line 23) refers to ________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Using the information in paragraph 3, complete the following table. The first one has been done for you as an example. (4 marks) Item Content z
905 calories z
__________________ fat z
__________________ cholesterol Total recommended fat intake per day z
__________________ fat Total recommended calorie per meal z
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8. The main purpose of paragraph 3 is to … A. warn readers that meals in restaurants adversely affect diners’ health. B. cite the dietician Kim Kam’s statistics and scientific proofs. C. reveal that both fried rice and steam rice contain too much calorie and MSG. D. inform readers about each male and female’s daily recommended intake of fat. 9. Find words or expressions in paragraph 4 which are opposite in meaning to the following: (3 marks) a. idling _______________ b. unaware _______________ c. expanded _______________ 10. Which statement is true, according to paragraph 5? A. Chui has recently gained much weight. B. Chui’s husband has had medical tests. C. Chui is concerned about her fat level. D. Chui always has her meals far away from home. 11. According to paragraph 5, Winnie Leung thinks some food is cooked in a inappropriately way. Complete the table to recommend what the cooks should do. (3 marks) Food Improved cooking methods Gluten and tofu dishes Do _________________________________ . Egg‐white omelette Do _________________________________ . Vegetables Do _________________________________ . 12. What is the meaning of ‘deceptive’ (line 41)? A. simple B. untrue C. genuine D. sophisticated 13. What is the reason that some restaurants provide healthier alternatives? A. to compete with new restaurants B. healthier dishes come with more profits C. people cannot accept the high‐fat dishes with MSG D. to meet the growing demands of health‐conscious diners © by Alex Chan
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14. Look at the following foods from the text and classify them into healthy food or unhealthy food. Put a tick (9) in the correct column. (6 marks) Foods Healthy food Unhealthy food Lion Head Meatballs Braised pork ribs Instant noodles Vegetables without oil or sauce Brown rice Raw tofu 15. In line 51, what does ‘occasional indulgence’ mean? ___________________________________________________________________________ 16. Decide whether these statements are True, False, or the information is Not Given in paragraph 8. Put a tick (9) in the appropriate column. (5 marks) Statement
True
False
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Mr and Mrs Chan have followed their doctor’s advice.
The main problem of restaurant food is too oily and salty.
People should read the labels on foods before buying them.
Eateries attract customers by their tempting photographs of
food.
It is never difficult to order healthy food when sharing with
others.
17. According to the information in the passage, what does each of the following people recommend about eating habits? (4 marks) Winnie Leung: _________________________________________________________ Priscilla Chui: ________________________________________________________________ Kim Kam: ____________________________________________________________ Ava Tong: ________________________________________________________________ 18. Complete the following summary of the passage. Use ONE word to fill in each blank. (4 marks) Many people dine out nowadays because of the _______________ and lifestyle in Hong Kong. However, the food provided by restaurants can be _______________ to our health owing to the high salt and oil ingredients. It is _______________ to achieve the aim of healthy eating as the dishes are _______________ _______________ fatty meats and excessive sauce. © by Alex Chan
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19. Why is the article entitled ‘Beware of Your Waistline’? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Is it unrealistic to avoid all fatty foods? Give one reason to support each point of view. (2 marks) Yes: _____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ No: _____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ © by Alex Chan
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Part B1 (Easy Section)
Read Text 2 and answer questions 22‐38. (45 marks) 21. Read the following words in the article. Replace the words with your own words. (2 marks) Line Word Replacement 1 mapped out 4 churn out 22. Read the following words in the passage. Write their corresponding meanings related to the context. (3 marks) Line Word Meaning 2 upbringing 7 clog 15 fall‐back 23. In paragraph 1, the writer characterises Japanese office ladies as……
A.
B.
C.
D.
stylish secretaries in offices.
daily commuters on the subway.
respectful and professional workers.
symbols of the business environment.
24. How did Yamanaka feel when she said, ‘I have absolutely no desire to
become an OL’ (line 9)?
A. realized B. astonished C. grateful D. disgraceful 25. According to paragraph 2, what is Yamanaka’s career aspiration?
___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 26. Decide whether these statements are True, False, or the information is Not Given in
paragraphs 1-3. Put a tick (9) in the appropriate column. (4 marks)
Statement
True
Staff in Western companies still wears bright company
uniforms.
Yamanaka sold ice cream at the age of 24.
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False
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Yamanaka is a part time waitress now.
Freeter movement started from Germany and England.
27. Use ONE word to complete the each blank. ‘Freeters’ in Japan are described as ‘intriguing and controversial’ because do not accept the _______________of _______________ Japan’s core values. 28. Explain what Japanese society’s rigid work ethic is according to paragraph 3.
___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ (2 marks)
29. What is the literal meaning of ‘warriors’ (line 25) and what does this word represent in the context of the passage? (3 marks) ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 30. Look at how the words below are used and briefly explain what they refer to in the passage. (3 marks) Paragraph/ Line Pronoun/ Possessive Reference Adjective para 5/ line 31 their para 5/ line 34 them para 6/ line 45 their 31. Read paragraph 5 and 6 of the article and then fill in each blank with ONE word only which best completes the grammatically correct sentence, keeping the meaning of the original text. (6 marks) The younger generation in Japan find (a) _______________ in job hunting
than before; hence, they are (b) _______________ to choose alternative
jobs which are less competitive. A host of high school graduates, like
Yamanaka, appreciate the lifestyle of freeters and feel (c)
_______________ to opt out of the mainstream jobs. Yamanaka thinks
her work loyalty only exists between the (d) _______________ company
and herself. Once her work is over, so (e) _______________ her loyalty
to that company. However, to traditional Confucians and the older
generation, their career (f) _______________ are to work hard for their
companies and to respect their lifelong jobs.
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32. According to paragraph 7, Yamanaka’s opinion of freeters is that they ...
A. do not need defending.
B. do not accept any suggestions.
C. have the right to be lazy.
D. are irresponsible to the society.
33. Based on the information stated in paragraph 8, complete the sentence below. Although ordinary jobs are still available, freeters _____________________
________________________________________________________________.
34. To rewrite the article in a more formal way, give ONE word to replace each
of the following colloquial expressions. (2 marks)
Line Word Meaning 57 salarymen 58 blank 35. Read the following words in the passage. Decide which of the options provided is closest in meaning and blacken ONE circle only. (3 marks) Line Word Meaning 61 stuck (stick) } to pierce or penetrate } to defraud or cheat } to scruple or hesitate 65 addressed (address) } to speak to someone } to direct a message to the attention } a location of a person or organization 66 gripe } a complaint } an experience } an employment status 36. Put the events below in the correct order. Write (2‐4) in the boxes provided. One has been done as an example. Seiji Satake was unemployed. Seiji wrote a complaint letter. Seiji worked as a hospital medical clerk. 1 Seiji was a part time designer. © by Alex Chan
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37. Which person in the article would you attribute the following to?
by quoting a phrase or a sentence from the text. (10 marks)
A:
B:
C:
D:
E:
Justify your answers
“Freelance jobs are just an excuse to be passive.”
“I treat my colleague and my bosses good when I’m at work.”
“Give us a hand, Japan’s Institute of Labour!”
“Everyone should be kind and dutiful to his or her parents.”
“I never think the regular workers feel satisfied with their full time work.”
Most Likely Speaker Supporting Phrase or Sentence A B C D E Part B2 (Difficult Section)
Read Text 3 and answer the questions 39‐55. (40 marks) 38. What did Amendments 211, 212 and 213 guarantee? ___________________________________________________________________ 39. Why does George have a radio in his ear?
___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 40. Read the following words in the article. Replace the words with your own words. (3 marks) Line Word Replacement 5 unceasing 11 short bursts 13 tuned 41. Why had Hazel ‘forgotten for the moment what they were about’ (line 17)? ___________________________________________________________________ © by Alex Chan
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___________________________________________________________________ 42. The ballerinas are not ordinary dancers.
about them. (2 marks)
Write down two unusual things
a) ___________________________________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________________________________ 43. Which noise caused two ballerinas to collapse?
___________________________________________________________________ 44. What is George’s viewpoint to Hazel’s suggestion that he should remove
some balls from his bags? Give reasons to support your answer. (2
marks)
___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 45. In the story, the author uses some new terms for things we have not heard of. Which terms does he use in connection with the following descriptions? (4 marks) Term/ Phrase Description/ Meaning (a) a canvas bag filled with heavy items (b) the period of time before equality started (c) a transmitter of noises fitted in the ear (d) a very strong and shocking noise 46. Look at how the words below are used and briefly explain what they refer to in the passage. (3 marks) Line Pronoun 59 we 74 it 84 him Reference 47. According to lines 86-96, decide whether these statements are True, False,
or the information is Not Given in paragraphs 1-3. Put a tick (9) in the
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appropriate column. (3 marks)
Statement
The mask of the ballerina looked disgusting.
The ballerina’s voice sounded good.
Harrison had successfully escaped from prison.
True False
NG
48. In lines 93‐100, find two expressions used to describe that Harrison is well‐built. (2 marks) a) ___________________________________________________________________ b) ___________________________________________________________________ 49. Name one thing interfering Harrison’s eyesight. ___________________________________________________________________ 50. Find a word in lines 106‐111 with the closest meaning of ‘compensate’. ___________________________________________________________________ 51. George’s, Hazel’s and an H-G agent’s attitudes about handicaps are different.
the best option A-F from the list below for each character. (3 marks)
(a) George ...
_____
(b) Hazel ...
_____
(c) An H-G agent ...
_____
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
is intrigued by the handicaps.
thinks all handicaps should be taken away.
does not care whether people have to wear handicaps.
wants to constantly make sure that everyone obeys handicap laws.
believes the handicaps bring people to a more ideal world – utopia.
thinks that handicaps should be made worse to limit all people.
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Choose
52. Complete the summary below. Referring to different plots, identify the character’s feeling towards different things. Quote ONE piece of evidence to justify your response. (10 marks) Line 22‐26 Character and Related Plot George feels about the Feeling Supporting Quote handicapped dancers 52‐61 Hazel feels about George’s handicap bag 52‐61 George feels about his handicap bag 66‐76 Hazel feels about the society with no handicap 86‐92 The ballerina feels about her talented voice 53. What is the tone of the story?
A. sarcastic
B. amusing
C. brightening
D. appreciating
54. In which section of a bookshop would you find this book?
A. Criminology
B. science fiction
C. romance fiction
D. historical novels
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Read Text 4 and answer the questions 56-61. (6 marks)
55. The writer thinks Harrison Bergeron shows misunderstanding about A. God B. equality C. socialist nations D. communist nations 56. Use ONE word to complete each blank. The writer thinks it is _______________ that _______________culture pursues egalitarianism, the absolute equality. 57. In lines 9‐10, the writer thinks ‘some aspects of equality are missing in the story’. Suggest two missed out aspects of equality. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 58. In paragraph 3, what is the aim of quoting the example of Hazel? ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 59. What is the main idea of paragraph 3? ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 60. Which category of books does The Politics of Harrison Bergeron fall into? A. thriller B. nonfiction C. biographies D. family and relationship © by Alex Chan
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