CW 2019 Prelim Paper 2 with Anskey

Commonwealth Sec 4E Prelim 2019 Section B Text 2 The text below describes a gold miner who discovered a beautiful landscape with a bit of gold. Read it carefully and answer Questions 4 – 14 in the Question Booklet. 1 It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back and formed a little sheltered nook and filled it to the brim with the sweetness and lushness of nature. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee -deep in the water, with drooping head and half -shut eyes, drowsed a red -coated, many-antlered buck*. And from all around rose the mountai n bees that jostled one another good-naturedly, making a sweet cacophony. 5 2 Suddenly, the buck's ears lifted and tensed with cautious eagerness for sound. His sensitive, quivering nostrils scented the air and to his ears came the voice of a man. At the sound he snorted with a sudden start that jerked him through the air from water to meadow, and his feet sank into the soft grass , while he pricked his ears and again scented the air. Then he stole across th e tiny meadow, pausing again to listen , and faded away without a sound. 10 3 The green screen was burst apart, and a man peered out at the surrounding. He was a deliberate sort of man. He took in the scene with one embracing glance, then ran his eyes over the details to verify the general impression. Then, and not until then, did he open his mouth in vivid and solemn approval. He pushed the screen of vines apart and flung his shovel and gold-pan ahead of him. Then, he crawled himself out in the open. He stood erect, seeing wide -eyed the secrecy of the scene and inhaling the warm, sweet breath of the canyon . His eyes narrowed to laughing slits of blue, his face wreathed itself in joy, and his mouth curled in a smile. 15 20 4 Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill. Before him was the smooth slope, spangled with flowers and made sweet with their breath. Behind him was devastation. It looked like some terrible eruption breaking out on the smooth skin of the hill. His progress was like that of a slug, tarnishing the beauty with his monstrous tools. 25 5 Squatting on his heels, he began to examine the fragments he unearthed and tossing them into the pan. Suddenly there came to him a premonition of danger. He did not spring up nor look around. He did not move. He was considering the nature and the source of the forewarning he had received. 30 6 He remained squatted on his heels, in his hands a chunk of gold . He did not dare to move, but he knew by now that there was something behind hi m and above him. He pretended to be interested in the gold in his hand. He examined it critically, turned it

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