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paper 1 Reading 0500/12
May/June 2020
2 hours
You must answer on the question paper.

You will need: Insert (enclosed)

INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions
• Use a black or dark blue pen.
o Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes at the top of the page.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
o Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
o Do not write on any bar codes.
• If additional space is needed, you should use the lined pages at the end of this booklet; the question
number or numbers must be clearly shown.
• Dictionaries are not allowed.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The n~mber of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
• The insert contains the reading texts.

. document has 16 pages · Blank pages are indicated.

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Read Text A, Paper fs back: why 'real' books are on the rebound, in the insert and then answer
Questions 1(aHe) on this question paper.

Question 1

(a) Give two examples of enemies of real books according to the text.

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(b) Using your own words, explain what the text means by:

(i) 'real books are fighting back.' (lines 2-3):

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(ii) 'more like co-existence than conquest.' (line 4):

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(c) Re-read paragraph 3 ('Publishers ... plateau.').

Give two reasons why the rise in the number of paper books sold was significant.

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(ell Re-read paragraphs 4 and 5 ('Apparently, print books ... media.').

0) Identify reasons Why sellers of e-books might be worried about those categories
where pnnl book sales have increased since 2012 .

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(ii) Explain why reading e-books may be less efficient than reading real books, acco rd ing

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(e) Re-read paragraphs 6 and 7 ('Some people ... feel.').

Using your own words, explain why people are unlikely to give up real books altogether in
favour of e-books.

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Read _Text B, The rebirth of the bookshop, in the insert and then answer Question 1(f) on lhi
question paper. s

Question 1

(f) According to Text 8, how and why have bookshops had to change to attract customers?

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.

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Read. Text C,Mr Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore, in the insert and then answer Questions 2(aHd)
on this question paper.

Question 2
(a) Identify a word or phrase from the text which suggests the same idea as the
underlined: s

(i) A lot of the books in the store seem to be from the ancient past.

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(ii) The narrator was looking at the outside edges of the books to check what they were
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(iii) The narrator used to work in the main office of a software company.

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(iv) The narrator lost his job when the economy plunged dramatically downwards .

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(b) Using your own words, explain what the writer means by each of the words underlined:

I was unemployed, a result of the great food-chain contraction sweeping through the country,
leaving bankrupt burger chains and shuttered sushi empires in its wake.

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(c) use onebout

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the burger the text below to explain how the writer suggests what the narrator
thinks a .

use your own words in your explanation.

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.ob out of art school. I sta~ed as a designer, making marketing materials to explain and promote
~his tasty treat: menus, diagrams and posters for store windows.

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(d) Re-read paragraphs 1 and 12.

• Paragraph 1 begins 'Lost in the shadows ... ' and is about what Clay sees and feels as
he climbs the ladder.
• Paragraph 12 begins 'Inside: imagine ... ' and describes the inside of the bookstore.

Explain how the writer uses language to convey meaning and to create effect in these
paragraphs. Choose three examples of words or phrases from each paragraph to support
your answer. Your choices should include the use of imagery.

Write about 200 to 300 words.

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