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Cambridge International AS & A Level

ENGLISH LANGUAGE 9093/11


Paper 1 Reading May/June 2024
2 hours 15 minutes

You must answer on the enclosed answer


booklet.

You will need: Answer booklet (enclosed)


*9668919476*

INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer
paper,
ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet.
• Dictionaries are not allowed.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].

This document has 8 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.


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Section A: Directed response

Question 1
Read the following text, which is a newspaper article about pollution created by new
plastic.

(a) Having read the article, you decide to write an email to a large company, urging
them to take action to reduce their plastic waste. Write the text for your email.
Use 150–200 words.

[10]

(b) Compare your email with the newspaper article, analyzing form, structure and
language. [15]

Call for global treaty to end production of ‘virgin’ plastic by 2040

Scientists say agreement must cover extraction of raw materials and pollution that blights
seas and land

A binding global treaty is needed to phase out the production of ‘virgin’ or new plastic
by 2040, scientists have said. 5

The solution to the blight of plastic pollution in the oceans and on land
would be a worldwide agreement on limits and controls, they say in a
special report in the journal Science.

Since the 1950s about 8 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced. The effects
are everywhere. One of the report’s authors, Nils Simon, said: ‘Plastics are
ubiquitously

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found in increasing amounts worldwide, including in terrestrial environments
and even inside the human body.’

The authors say the very properties that have made plastic an apparently
essential modern material also make it a serious environmental threat.

Science senior editor Jesse Smith writes: ‘As for much new technology, their development
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and proliferation occurred with little consideration for their impacts, but now
it’s impossible to deny their dark side as we confront a rapidly growing
plastic pollution problem.’

‘The time for preventing plastic pollution is long past – the time for changing
the future of plastics in our world, however, is now.’

The report calls for a new global treaty ‘to cover the entire lifecycle of plastics, from
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extraction of the raw materials needed for its manufacture to its legacy pollution’.

The largest proportion of plastic waste comes from packaging materials


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(47%), while textiles are responsible for 14% and transport 6%.

Each year, 3% of worldwide plastic waste ends up in the oceans; in 2010 that
amounted
to about 8 million tonnes of plastic. 25

Yet plastic production has continued to increase. In 2019, 368 million


tonnes of newly made, or virgin, plastics were produced. By 2050, the
production of new plastic from fossil fuels could consume 10–13% of the
remaining global carbon budget permissible to ensure temperatures rise to
no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels as required
by the Paris climate agreement. 30

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Simon calls for a binding global treaty to:

•Phase out the production of newly made or virgin plastic by 2040.

•Create a circular economy for plastic, incentivizing reuse and refill and
the elimination of substantial volumes of plastic pollution.

•Start a worldwide clean-up of plastic waste. 35

‘Plastic pollution poses a considerable, even though not yet fully


understood, threat to the environment, species, and habitats, as well as to
cultural heritage,’ said Simon. ‘Its social impacts include harm to human
health, in particular among vulnerable communities, and it comes with
substantial economic costs affecting especially regions depending on
tourism.’ 40

‘Addressing these challenges requires a transformative approach that


facilitates measures to reduce production of virgin plastic materials and
includes equitable steps toward a safe and circular economy for plastics.’

Cleaning up the vast plastic waste footprint spread across the world requires the
targeting
of clogged waterways, drains and sewers in many countries that do not have rubbish
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collection services and where creating and boosting waste management
services would be necessary. Producers of plastic would also be required to
contribute to help fund clean-ups in some countries.

The impact of plastic pollution on the environment could trigger negative impacts
which
are irreversible, the report’s authors warned. They warned that the plastic pollution of
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the oceans and land is at a rate which cannot be tackled by any clean-up,
particularly when it affects remote areas. What is required is curtailing the
emissions of plastic to the environment as rapidly and comprehensively as
possible, they say

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