TEST SHEET: 2020-2021: TERM: 1

DATE: 04/10/2021 SUBJECT: ENGLISH TOPIC: REVISION TEST TEST TYPE: Concept MARKS: 40

NAME: _______________________ CLASS: 10 ABCDEF ROLL NO: ___ INITIALS: P.S , S.B
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TEXT A [for summary writing]

Music

Recorded sound brings a wide range of music to ordinary people who, in the past,
would have been confined to the one or two sorts of music which characterised their
tribe or their region. Recorded music crosses boundaries and cultures – if you want to
investigate the music of, say, Sri Lanka or Kenya, it is easy to do so by a trip to your
music shop or even by surfing the internet. Moreover, air travel has become more
frequent and its inexpensiveness means that people can attend cultural shows in far-
flung holiday destinations and buy recordings of the music of the countries they visit.
Before the invention of recorded music, people might have played or listened to live
music in their own homes, but in families without either musical instruments or the skill
to play them, this would clearly not have been possible. However, access to
recordings enables ordinary people nowadays to hear music as often as they like,
without needing to own or be able to play an instrument. The fact that buying recorded
music is generally cheaper than attending live performances is another attraction.

As far as musicians themselves are concerned, recorded music has brought about a
revolution. In the past, musicians played only in live performances, where wrong notes
might be played, but now that recordings can be corrected a perfect version of the
original can be achieved. Furthermore, although members of a live audience may spoil
a performance with, say, a fit of uncontrollable coughing or their mobile phone ringing,
this cannot happen in a recording studio. In cultures where music was not written
down, it could be forgotten and consequently lost, along with its capacity to give
pleasure to many people. Now a recording captures it for ever; moreover, the
efficiency of recording studios means that this can be done in a single afternoon.

However, Thomas Edison, were he to come back to our planet as a time traveller,
might not agree that the invention of recorded sound has brought nothing but good to
music. It could be argued that people have become so used to listening to recorded
sound in the privacy of their own homes that they have no motivation to attend
concerts of live music. Why should you buy a concert ticket and trudge out in the rain
to the venue when you can listen to a perfect version of your favourite music in your
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own living room? When people do attend live performances, they are so used to the
‘flick of a switch’ approach to music that they have lost any sense of wonder at its
creation. At many concerts of popular music, the audience wanders in and out of the
auditorium, returning at times to listen to a favourite song or instrumental piece. The
easy availability of high-quality recorded music may also discourage some people,
especially the young, from learning to play musical instruments. Is it not likely that
potential talent will be left undiscovered because of the invention of recorded music?

QS 1. According to Text A, Summarize , Using your own words as far as possible, the
advantages and disadvantages of recorded music. You must use continuous writing
(not note form) and use your own words as far as possible.

Your summary should not be more than 120 words.

Up to 10 marks are available for the content of your answer and up to 5 marks
for the quality of your writing.

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TEXT B [FOR MAGAZINE ARTICLE]

A window on the world – my years with chimpanzees

This text is part of a longer account. The narrator, Jane Goodall, is a scientist
and expert in primate behaviour as well as an animal rights campaigner. She
has recently returned to the jungle.

I woke before the alarm. Breakfast – banana and coffee – was soon finished.
Minutes later, pockets stuffed with camera, notebook, pencil, and a handful of
raisins for lunch, I headed for the place where the evening before I’d watched
18 chimpanzees settle down for the night, and waited. Rustling of leaves above
signalled that the group was waking. Peering into the tree where Fifi had made
a nest for herself and infant Flossi, I saw their silhouettes. Moments later eight-
year-old daughter Fanni climbed up from her nest nearby, a small fluffy shape
against the sky. Fifi’s other two offspring, adult Freud and adolescent Frodo,
had nested further up the slope.

In the trees, other chimpanzees of the group moved about, preparing for their
day. Some began to feed. I remained still, aware that pandemonium might yet
break out, but utterly content to be here after months away – long weeks of
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lectures and lobbying in the USA and Europe. This was my first day back with
the chimps. I planned to enjoy getting reacquainted with my old friends, taking
pictures and getting my climbing legs back.

It was Greybeard who led off, 30 minutes later, pausing twice to make sure the
rest were following. We headed north, then plunged into the valley and with
frequent pauses for feeding, made our way up the opposite slope. By the time
the eastern sky grew brighter, we were high above the lake. The chimps stopped
and groomed for a while, enjoying the warm morning sunshine.

From where I sat, I could look over the valley at the grassy ridge that in the early
days was my vantage point before the chimps had learned to trust this human
and I’d learned how to avoid trouble. From there I’d watched the chimpanzees
through my binoculars. A surge of memories flooded back. Gradually in those
days I’d pieced together fragments from their daily lives, feeding habits, travel
routes and social structure. Thinking back I relived the thrill of watching
Greybeard fishing for termites with stems of grass – picking a wide blade of
grass and trimming it carefully so it could be poked into the narrow passage of
the termite mound. What a discovery – humans weren’t the only tool-making
animals! Nor were chimpanzees the placid vegetarians people supposed. I
shuddered, remembering grim years when the males of the community had
waged war against a neighbouring chimp group.

My attention jerked back to the present with a sudden outbreak of chimpanzee

calls. Looking up through the canopy I saw a grey, heavy sky. Growing darkness
brought stillness, punctuated only by distant drumming of thunder. Then the rain
began. As the rain got heavier Frodo started leaping about in the tree tops
above, swinging vigorously from one branch to the next, becoming wilder and
more daring as fatter, faster drops found their way through the dense canopy.
Suddenly, heralded by a thunderclap that shook the mountains and growled on
and on, bouncing from peak to peak, the clouds released such torrential rain
that sky and earth seemed joined by moving water. Frodo stopped playing and
he, like the others, sat hunched and still, close to the trunk of a tree. It must
have taken about an hour before the rain eased off and the heart of the storm
swept away. The chimps climbed down and moved off through the soaked,
dripping vegetation. I followed awkwardly, my cold wet clothes hindering
movement.

A pale watery sun had appeared. Its light caught the raindrops so that the world
seemed hung with diamonds. I crouched low to avoid destroying a spider’s web
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that stretched, exquisite and fragile, across the trail. The leaves were brilliant,
vivid, veined greens in the soft sunlight; wet trunks and branches gleamed like
ebony; the black coats of the chimps were shot with flashes of coppery-brown.
I stayed until the chimps nested.

How much we still have to learn?

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Re-read Text B, A window on the world – my years with chimpanzees, in the insert
and then answer Question 2

Question 2

You are a journalist writing a magazine article about Jane Goodall’s work.

In your magazine article you should:

• explain what Jane’s work involves and the challenges it presents

• explain what Jane has learned about chimpanzees and their lives
• suggest why Jane’s work is important and what she hopes to achieve.

Write the words of the magazine article.

Base your magazine article on what you have read in Text B, but be careful to use your
own words.
Address each of the three bullets points. Please give a suitable headline .

Write about 250 to 350 words. Up to 15 marks are available for the content of your
answer and up to 10 marks for the quality of your writing.

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