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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Monday 5 June 2023
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutes) Paper
reference 1EN0/01
English Language ⬟ ⬟
PAPER 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing
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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1 English Language PAPER 1: Fiction and
Imaginative Writing Question Paper 2023
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.
• Answer all questions in Section A and ONE in Section B.
• You 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.
Information
• The
• –Theusemarks
total mark for this paper is 64.
for each question are shown in brackets
this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• written communication
Questions labelled with an asterisk (*) are ones where the quality of your
will be assessed
– you should take particular care on these questions with your spelling, punctuation and
grammar, as well as the clarity of expression.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end. Turn over
Arriving at the town, we had no difficulty in finding the inn. The town is
composed of one desolate street; and midway in that street stands the inn—an
ancient stone building sadly out of repair. The painting on the sign-board is
obliterated. The shutters over the long range of front windows are all closed. A
cock and his hens are the only living creatures at the door. Plainly, this is one of
the old inns of the stage-coach period, ruined by the railway. We pass through
the open arched doorway, and find no one to welcome us. We advance into
the stable yard behind; I assist my wife to dismount. No bell to ring. No human
creature to answer when I call.
Give two things that show how deserted the place is.
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
Mrs. Fairbank saunters* gracefully down the length of the yard and does—
what all women do, when they find themselves in a strange place. She opens
every door as she passes it, and peeps in. On my side, I have just recovered my
breath, I am on the point of shouting for the stableman for the third and last
time, when I hear Mrs. Fairbank suddenly call to me:
“Percy! Come here!”
Her voice is eager and agitated. She has opened a last door at the end of the
yard, and has started back from some sight which has suddenly met her view.
I hitch the horses’ bridles on a rusty nail in the wall near me, and join my wife.
She has turned pale, and catches me nervously by the arm.
“Good heavens!” she cries; “look at that!”
I look—and what do I see? I see a dingy little stable, containing two stalls. In
one stall a horse is munching his corn. In the other a man is lying asleep.
A worn, withered, woebegone** man in a stableman’s clothes. His hollow
wrinkled cheeks, his scanty grizzled hair, his dry yellow skin, tell their own tale
of past sorrow or suffering.
How does the writer use language and structure to describe the experiences of Percy
Fairbank and Mrs Fairbank in the stable?
Support your views with reference to the text.
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