Read Text A and answer Question 1 and Question 2 on the question paper.

Text A
Chevrotain
The writer, an animal photographer, tells the story of how he tried to film a shy animal called a chevrotain.
1. Over the years, I have learnt that there are several different ways of making an animal film. The best method to
employ a team of cameramen to spend about two years filming animals in their natural habitat is unfortunately
expensive and, unless you have plentiful time and resources behind you, it is out of the question. For someone
like me, with only a limited amount of time and money to spend in a country, the only way to film animals is
under controlled conditions. The difficulties of trying to film them in a tropical forest, where wild animals are 5
rarely visible, are enough to make even the most ardent photographer grow pale. When you do manage to see an
animal, it is generally only a momentary glimpse as it scuttles off into the undergrowth. I have found that the
solution is to catch your animal first and establish it in temporary captivity, because to find an animal in proximity
which is doing something worth filming would be almost a miracle. Inside an expansive netted area, like a film set,
you cre 10
point of view, suitable. That is to say, your undergrowth must be a sprawling playground which will be a refuge for
a bashful creature, and thin enough to avoid awkward patches of shade. Then you introduce the animal to the
film set and allow it time to settle down in order to obtain the results you want.

2. A prime example of the difficulties of animal photography occurred on the day my team and I attempted to
photograph a cute type of antelope called a water chevrotain which is extremely photogenic. It spends most of its 15
time in streams in the forest and can even swim for considerable distances under water. The second curious thing
is that it has a passion for snails and beetles, and such carnivorous habits are most unusual in antelopes.

3. Our chevrotain was ridiculously tame and spent her time trying to bathe in her water bowl, into which she could
jam herself only with considerable effort. To display her to advantage, I designed a film set incorporating a section
of river bank. One morning, when the sky was free from cloud and the sun was in the right place for us to get the 20
best result, we carried the chevrotain out in her cage and prepared to release her. We were worried that, given
her nature, she would not move, but we got considerably more movement than we had anticipated. She stepped
daintily out of the cage and paused with one slender hoof raised. I picked up the camera and awaited her next
move, which was somewhat unexpected. She shot across my carefully prepared film set, amazingly went right
through the netting wall as if it had not been there, and within seconds, disappeared into the undergrowth in the 25
distance. I uttered such a wail of anguish that all those watching, including Phillip the cook, dropped what they
were doing and assembled on the scene as if by magic.

4. h offer was ground-breaking.

Several members of the team descended like a swarm of hungry locusts onto the patch of undergrowth into
which the antelope had disappeared. Within five minutes Phillip, with a roar of triumph, emerged from the 30
bushes clutching the kicking, struggling antelope. We spent the rest of the day trying to film the wretched
creature. She behaved beautifully in her cage, splashing in water and eating beetles and snails, but the moment
she was released onto the film set she behaved as if she had a pair of leopards on her tail. At the end of the day,
hot and exhausted, I had taken dozens of photographs, all of which showed her standing outside her box for a
moment, before she dashed away. When we replaced her in her cage she was astonished at all the fuss. Sadly we 35
carried her box back to the house, while she lay placidly on her banana-leaf and munched beetles. It was the last
time we tried to photograph her, and soon we released her back into her natural habitat.

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 Section A
Read Text A,Chevrotain,in the insert and answer Question 1 and 2
Question 1
(a)
an animal film (lines 1-13)?
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(b) In what two ways is it difficult to film animals in a tropical forest (lines 1-13)?
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(c) The writer thinks that the best way to find an animal in proximity which is doing something worth fliming
Explain in your own words the challenges of fliming an animal (lines 8-9).
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(d)Explain the one way in which the undergrowth on the film set may cause problems for a photographer of
wildlife (lines 1-13).
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(e) Pick out and write down the characteristic of the chevrotain that made the writer think it would make an
appealing photograph (lines 14-17).
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(f) (lines
22)
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(g)Pick out and write down the four consecutive words
immediately to the fact that the chevrotain had run away (lines 18-27).
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(h) were very
surprising (lines 28-37)?
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(ii)..............................................................................................................................................................................[2]
(i)At the end of the day ,when the chevrotain was being replaced in her cage, she was astonished at all the fuss
Explain in your own words how the reactions of the chevrotain (line 35).
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(j)Explain in your own words the different features an undergrowth must have to be worth for fliming.
Give three details from anywhere in the text to support your answer.
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Question 2

(a)Read this extract from the text:

One morning, when the sky was free from cloud and the sun was in the right place for us to get the best result,
we carried the chevrotain out in her cage and prepared to release her. (lines 20-21)
?
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(b) She stepped daintily out of the cage. (lines 22-23)
What
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(c) She shot across my carefully prepared film set. (line 24)
What does the convey that would not be achieved by the word ?
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(d)Read this sentence from the text:
I uttered such a wail of anguish
What effect does the writer
26)?
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(e)Identify one example from the text below of how the writer uses language effectively to convey different
actions of the writer as well as the chevrotain.

ground-breaking.
Several members of the team descended like a swarm of hungry locusts onto the patch of undergrowth into
which the antelope had disappeared. Within five minutes Phillip, with a roar of triumph, emerged from the
bushes clutching the kicking, struggling antelope. We spent the rest of the day trying to film the wretched
creature. She behaved beautifully in her cage, splashing in water and eating beetles and snails, but the moment
she was released onto the film set she behaved as if she had a pair of leopards on her tail. At the end of the day,
hot and exhausted, I had taken dozens of photographs, all of which showed her standing outside her box for a
moment, before she dashed away (lines 28-35).

Explain the impression the writer creates in the example you have identified.
example.........................................................................................................................................................................

explanation
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