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ADVANCED E Sample Paper 2012 F Exam duration: 3 hours Total

A) Read the following passage and answer the questions below “in your own words.” (20)

FIRST GRADE THE VOICE OF BART SIMPSON Final Exam

The woman I’ve come to meet is sitting atop a large plastic cow in the grounds of her Los Angeles home. Small and blonde, she holds an umbrella aloft and gives a mischievous smile for an American magazine photographer. ‘Hi, there!’ she says, giving me a warm, almost motherly wave from her unusual vantage point. Her real name is Nancy Cartwright. Her stage name, however, is a little more familiar: Bart Simpson, the obnoxious, skateboard-touting ten-year-old from the cartoon metropolis of Springfield. It’s hard to believe, but this forty-six-year-old mother of two, dressed in a sensible green top and blue trousers, is the yellow-hued rascal who instructed the world to eat his shorts. ‘I can bring him out at will,’ says Cartwright, with a hint of a raised eyebrow, her naturally husky voice always seemingly on the verge of breaking into a Bartism, punctuated by his cruel, gloating laughter. ‘Think about it, it’s kind of ideal, isn’t it? If I go to a party and someone brings a kid up to me I can go, “Hey, man, what’s happening?” and watch the kid’s face. I love doing that.’ My own gawping response is probably similar. The ten-year-old voice coming out of Cartwright is scarily incongruous. It belongs to another world – certainly not here in the lush Californian suburb of Northridge, with its white picket fences, tennis courts, swimming pools and three-car garages. Reckless skateboarding would certainly not be tolerated. Cartwright, however, has grown tired of deploying Bart’s voice as a means to claim traditional celebrity perks, such as a table at the famous Sky Bar. ‘I tried it once,’ she says. ‘It’s embarrassing. People are like, “So what?”’ She has had similarly disappointing encounters with unamused traffic cops and harried flight attendants. Now Cartwright has learnt to relish her anonymous celebrity status. ‘It’s probably because I have the choice to be able to do it whereas most celebrities don’t,’ she concludes. ‘They’re kind of, you know, at the whim of the public, and that must be unnerving.’ But there is, of course, something profoundly odd about the fact that Nancy Cartwright is at once both an A-list celebrity and a faceless nobody. So odd, in fact, that it has inspired Cartwright to produce a one-woman show based on what she calls ‘My life as a ten-year-old boy’, which she is bringing to the Edinburgh Festival. The one-woman show takes the Advanced Sample Paper 2012 2 audience through Cartwright’s real life as a ten-year-old – living in the Midwestern ‘nowheresville’ of Dayton, Ohio – when she won a school competition with a performance of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘How the Camel Got His Hump’. After that came other competitions, other trophies, and a gradual realization that her voice was perfect for cartoons. By her late teens, Cartwright was working for a radio station where she met a Hollywood studio representative who gave her the name and phone number of Daws Butler, the legendary voice of cartoon favourites Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear. At just 19, and with only that one contact, Cartwright, like so many other wannabe starlets, packed her bags and headed west, transferring her university scholarship from Ohio to the University of California. Cartwright, however, was no ordinary blonde starlet. ‘Most people who come to Hollywood are looking to get on camera,’ she says. ‘My story is quite different. My purpose was to hook up with this pioneer of the voiceover industry, so that’s what I did.’ He put her in touch with the directors at the Hanna-Barbera studio and helped her get the voice of Gloria in Richie Rich – the adventures of the richest boy in the world. Then came the call from the producers of a 30-second cartoon spot on ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’. They wanted her to play the role of Lisa Simpson, a nerdy and morally upstanding know-all with a bratty little brother, Bart. ‘I went in, saw Lisa, and didn’t really see anything I could sink my teeth into,’ says Cartwright.’ But the audition piece for Bart was right there, and I’m like, “Whoa, ten years old, underachiever and proud of it!”, and I’m going, “Yeah, man – that’s the one I wanna do!”’ She knew the audition was a success when Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons, started cracking up and shouting, ‘That’s it! That’s Bart!’ It’s no surprise to learn that Bart’s catchphrase – ‘Eat my shorts!’ – was originally an ad lib by Cartwright. The Bart voice had long been a part of Cartwright’s repertoire, but it didn’t come alive until she saw the pictures of him and read the script. The material, meanwhile, which was pretty heady stuff in the late eighties, didn’t shock her. ‘You know what,’ she says, ‘I couldn’t believe I was actually getting paid for doing things I would get into trouble for doing as a kid.’

1. How do adults tend to react when Nancy uses Bart’s voice in public?

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2. How does Nancy feel about keeping a relatively low profile?

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3. Why did Nancy originally decide to go to Hollywood?

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4. In what way was she different from the other prospective starlets there?

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5. How did she actually get the part of Bart Simpson?

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B) Fill in the blanks with only one word. (10)

SUSHI CHEF

Kazutoshi Endo has been making the Japanese fish and rice delicacy known as sushi

for thirteen years. Yet he wants to (1) ………………………… it clear that he is still very

much a beginner. In fact, he is quite adamant about it, (2) ………………………… being

head sushi chef at one of London’s leading Japanese restaurants.

Endo comes from a hard-working family in the port city of Yokohama and is a third

generation sushi chef. Although as a child he was (3) …………………………

encouraged to follow in his father’s footsteps, and actually trained to be a PE teacher

instead, it was always Endo’s ambition to (4) ………………………… so. Yet he was

never taught (5) ………………………… to do. The way you learn in Japan is to watch.

Some chefs spend three years washing sushi rice, whilst at the same time watching

their masters (6) ………………………… work.

It takes (7) ………………………… concentration to keep an eye on Endo’s hands as he

makes sushi, however. All it takes is just a (8) ………………………… quick cuts with

his knife and a neat pile of perfectly sliced octopus sits on the counter. A sushi roll

(9) ………………………… look like a piece of rice, but apparently it takes years to get

the touch, to be able to roll rice with exactly the right amount of pressure. As Endo

says: ‘Shushi (10) ………………………… to be mastered. I can’t explain the process

in words.’

Advanced Sample Paper 2012 4 C) Put the verbs in the correct place and in the correct tense. Add modals if necessary. (15) ALLOW READ BE KEEP SUGGEST

BEGIN COVER DO SEND ASK

Some years ago, I received a letter from a stranger, Joanna King. No sooner

(1) …………………………………. ( I ) reading it than I thought it was one of those

pleasant fan letters that authors are occasionally cheered by, but I was wrong. Joanna

had an aunt, aged ninety-eight, who (2) ……………………………….. a diary from the

age of thirteen until she was ninety-four. Neither Joanna nor her husband

(3) …………………………………. (ever) to read any of these diaries, but as their

relative was a woman of strong opinions, they thought they

(4) …………………………………. interesting.

The point of writing to me was (5) …………………………………. my advice. I had

written a memoir about my own mother and grandmother, two ordinary women with little

claim to fame. (6) ………………………………….it, Joanna had started wondering if

there was some value in her aunt’s diaries as a social document. What

(7) …………………………………. with them? Could I make any suggestions?

I recommended that she (8) …………………………………. them to a university and

enclosed various names and addresses. I said the thought of someone keeping a diary

over such a length of time, so neatly (9) …………………………………. most of a

century, was in itself extraordinary. She wrote back asking if I was intrigued enough to

want to make something of them myself. I hadn’t thought of that but once

(10) …………………………………., I began to toy with the prospect.

D) Make all the changes and additions necessary to produce sentences that, together, make a coherent whole.

Dear Sir/Madam, 1. I wish / complain / broadband speeds I / receive from FASTNET.

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………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Advanced Sample Paper 2012 5 2. I / subscribe / your service / June and pay $30 / month.

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3. Last four weeks / I / suffer/ low speeds / evening. / connection speed / less / 2MBs.

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4. This make / Internet connection useless / evening, / peak time / me / my family.

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5. I / call your company / helpline and no-one / able / improve / situation.

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6. Instead, I / tell / just switch off / computer/ wait five minutes / then / switch / on again.

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7. None / this / have / effect / problem and I / estimate I / spend / least / four hours /

phone / customer and technical support departments.

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8. I / not have / problems before / so I /extremely disappointed / service / your company

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9. I / appreciate / you / contact me / advise / when / you / resolve / problem.

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10. I / wait / hear / you / before / take / further action.

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Advanced Sample Paper 2012 6 E) Rewrite the following sentences without changing their meaning. (10)

1. Our neighbour made us reinforce the fence because our dog kept getting through.

We were …………………………………………………………………………………………

in order to ………………………………………………………………………………………

2. I know that it was wrong of me to get angry in front of the children.

I know that I should …..……………………………………………………………… temper in

front of the children.

3. The students did not return from the end-of-term party until it was getting dark.

Not until ………………………………………………………………………………………..

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4. The police acted quickly, thus preventing a real fight between rival groups.

Had the police …………………………………………………………………………..., there

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5. We missed the train because we arrived at the station late.

By the time ………………………………………………………………………………… left.

F. COMPOSITION (30)

Choose ONE of the following questions and write about 200-250 words, in an appropriate style.

1) You have seen this announcement in an international newspaper.

We need people to live in a remote mountain area for three months with only each other for support. Their experiences will be filmed and shown as part of a television series called ‘Survival’.

Have you got the skills to survive in a hostile environment, and work in a team? Tell us why you should be included in the project.

Write your letter of application. You do not need to include postal addresses.

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2) You have had a class discussion on whether technology has really improved the quality of our lives. Now your teacher has asked you to write an essay on the subject of “Technology – is it a good or a bad thing?” You should think about communication, travel and home life.

Write your essay.

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...... Advanced Sample Paper 2012 8 KEY/ ADVANCED / FINAL EXAM

A. - READING COMPREHENSION (Suggested model answers)

1. People do not seem to like it much. They are surprised, but Nancy’s use of Bart’s voice has not allowed her to claim any celebrity perks. 2. She enjoys having the possibility to avoid being recognized. She can choose not to get any attention whereas other celebrities cannot avoid being recognized and cannot ignore the public’s attention at will. 3. She had realized her voice was perfect for cartoons so she went to Hollywood to find an actor who played famous characters so that she would be able to find a job with the voiceover industry. 4. She wasn’t looking for a role in a film. She only wanted a job in a cartoon film. 5. She had intended to audition for Lisa Simpson’s part but she couldn’t really think of something inspiring but she suddenly felt that she had the right voice for Bart and decided to try for his part.

B. - CLOZE

1.- make 2.- despite 3.- not/never 4.- do 5.- what 6.- at 7.- some/much 8.- few 9.- may 10.- needs/has

C. - TENSES

1.- had I begun 2.- had kept 3.- had ever been allowed 4.- would be 5.- to ask 6.- Having read 7.- might/could be done 8.- (should) send 9.- covering 10.- suggested

D. - MAKE ALL THE CHANGES AND ADDITIONS NECESSARY TO PRODUCE SENTENCES THAT, TOGETHER, MAKE A COHERENT WHOLE.

1. I wish to complain about the broadband speeds I / am receiving/have been receiving from Fastnet. 2. I /have (been) subscribed to your service since June/ subscribed to your service last June and have been paying $30 a/per month. 3. In / For the last four weeks I / have been suffering/ have suffered from low speeds in the evening. The connection speed is less than 2MBs. 4. This makes the Internet connection useless in the evening, (which is) a peak time for me and my family. 5. I have called/ have been calling your company’s helpline and no-one has been able to improve the situation. 6. Instead, I’ve been told/ I was told to just switch off the computer, wait five minutes and then switch it on again. 7. None of this has had any effect on the problem and I (would) estimate I (have) spent at least four hours on the phone to your customer and technical support departments. 8. I hadn’t had any problems before so I am extremely disappointed by the service from your company. 9. I would appreciate it if you could contact me to advise me when you will (be able to) resolve this problem. 10. I will wait to hear from you before I take any further action.

E. - PARAPHRASING

1- We were MADE TO REINFORCE THE FENCE in order to STOP OUR DOG GETTING THROUGH/PREVENT OUR DOG FROM GETTING THROUGH. Advanced Sample Paper 2012 9 2- I know that I should NOT HAVE LOST MY temper in front of the children. 3- Not until IT WAS GETTING DARK DID THE STUDENTS RETURN FROM THE END-OF-TERM PARTY. 4- Had the police NOT ACTED QUICKLY, there WOULD HAVE BEEN A REAL FIGHT BETWEEN RIVAL GROUPS. 5- By the time WE ARRIVED AT THE STATION, THE TRAIN HAD ALREADY left.