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Cambridge Primary Sample Test

For use with curriculum published in


September 2020

English Paper 2
Insert
Stage 5

English_S5_02_INS/3RP
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Text for Section A, an extract from ‘Moon Bear’ by Gill Lewis

Tam and his friend Noy are spending a night in the forest to see if they can catch
sight of a bear which has been entering their village.

***

I rubbed my eyes and breathed in deeply, filling my lungs with the cool night air.
Above, the moon had forced an arc across the sky. We had been waiting all
night. The forest was dark and still. This was the dark before the dawn. The dark
when the spirits walked.

I wriggled forward and peered down from our high rock. Moonlight reflected from 5
the wide pools below the waterfall, the ripples spreading in perfect circles of
bright, white light. The sweet scent of moth flowers drifted across the water. The
whole forest was deep in sleep. Maybe Noy was wrong. Maybe it wouldn’t come
tonight.

I stared into the folds of darkness on the far side of the river. In the deep 10
shadows between the rocks and boulders, a darker shadow was stirring. I twisted
a loose piece of forest vine through my fingers and watched. Despite the
coolness of the night, my palms ran slick with sweat. I could feel the blood
pumping through my hands. I swallowed hard. Below, some 50 paces away, the
shadow moved. It formed, gathered shape and stepped out into the moonlight. 15

I grabbed Noy in the ribs.

‘Wake up!’

Noy’s head jolted up. ‘What?’

‘Ssh,’ I said. ‘It’s here, now.’

Noy wiped the sleep from his face and leant out. He looked down at the river and 20
gripped my arm, ‘Where?’

‘There!’

The shadow rose onto its hind legs and sniffed the air.

I held my breath.

A bear. A huge bear. I had never seen one before. It was taller than Pa. Taller 25
than the Chief. The crescent of white fur on its chest was bright against the dark
fur of its body. It sniffed the air again, its small round ears twitching in our
direction. It was the bear of the Old Stories. A Moon Bear. Right here.

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Right now. 30

I pressed myself into the rock. We were downwind, wrapped in shadow. The
thunder from the waterfall drowned our noise. Yet, as we lay still and hidden, I
wondered if the bear would sense us somehow. Did she know we were here?

Noy tensed up beside me. I could hear his breath, soft and shallow. I could feel
him waiting too. The bear dropped onto all four paws and leant forward into the 35
river. She dipped her head low and drank, gulping the water, her ears swivelling
backward and forwards. I breathed out slowly. Noy leaned into me, ‘I told you
she would come.’

The bear was thin. She’d eaten our crops and broken into the feed store, and put
fear into our village. Yet no one had managed to catch her. 40

Noy thrust a small flashlight in my hand. ‘Go’, he said. ‘Go now.’

‘I thought we were going together.’

Noy shook his head, ‘One of us has to keep watch. Besides you’re smaller and
will fit between the rocks.’

I glared at him. We were born the same night, under the same moon. People 45
thought we shared our souls like twin brothers. Yet Noy was the chief’s youngest
son. He always got his way.

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© Gill Lewis; Moon Bear; Oxford University Press; 2013.

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