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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Thursday 23 May 2024
Paper
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutes)
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English Language
PAPER 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing
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Reading Text Insert (enclosed)
Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1) English Language PAPER 1: Fiction and
Imaginative Writing QP MAY 2024
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
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• You
all questions in Section A and ONE in Section B.
should spend about 1 hour on Section A.
•• You should spend about 45 minutes on Section B.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
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•• The total mark for this paper is 64.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
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– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question. Questions
with an asterisk (*) are ones where the quality of your written
communication will be assessed
– you should take particular care on these questions with your vocabulary, spelling,
punctuation and grammar, as well as the clarity of expression.
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, SECTION A
Reading
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Read the text in the Reading Text Insert provided and answer ALL questions.
You should spend about 1 hour on this section.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1 From lines 1–3, identify a word which shows that Hester is looking for Rosamond at
night.
It was bitter cold; so cold, that the air almost took the skin off my face as I ran;
but I ran on, crying to think how my poor little darling must be
perished and frightened. I was within sight of the holly-trees, when I saw a
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shepherd coming down the hill, bearing something in his arms wrapped in his
cloak. He shouted to me, and asked me if I had lost a child; and, when I could not
speak for crying, he bore towards me, and I saw my wee one, lying still, and white,
and stiff in his arms, as if she had been dead.
He told me he had been up the Fells to gather in his sheep, before the deep cold of
night came on, and that under the holly-trees (black marks on the hill-side, where
no other bush was for miles around) he had found my little lady – my lamb – my
queen – my darling – stiff and cold in the terrible sleep which is frost-begotten*.
From the extract, give two ways in which the writer shows what the weather was like. You may
use your own words or quotations from the text.
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