Pearson Edexcel Key Stage 3 Baseline Test: Year 7

Pearson Edexcel Key Stage 3 Baseline Test: Year 7

English Language
Paper 3: Non-fiction
Reading Text Insert
Key Stage 3 support: Year 7 Baseline Test
Time: 50 minutes
Do not return the insert with question paper.

Advice

Read the text before answering the questions in the question paper.

Read the text below and answer Questions 1–5 on the question paper.
This is an edited extract from an essay written in 1936 by the English writer George Orwell. He is writing about when he worked as an assistant in a second-hand bookshop.
Bookshop Memories:George Orwell
Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital,[1] any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out of a bookshop. Unless one goes in for ‘rare’ books it is not a difficult trade[2] to learn, and you start at a great advantage if you know anything about the insides of books. But the hours of work are very long--I was only a part-time employee, but my employer put in a seventy-hour week, apart from constant expeditions out of hours to buy books--and it is an unhealthy life. As a rule a bookshop is horribly cold in winter, because if it is too warm the windows get misted over, and a bookseller lives on his windows. And books give off more and nastier dust than any other class of objects yet invented, and the top of a book is the place where every bluebottle prefers to die.
But the real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them; still worse is the fact that he is constantly dusting them and hauling them to and fro. There was a time when I really did love books--loved the sight and smell and feel of them, I mean, at least if they were fifty or more years old. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a job lot of them for a shilling[3] at a country auction. There is a peculiar flavour about the battered unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: minor eighteenth-century poets, out-of-date dictionaries, odd volumes of forgotten novels, bound numbers of ladies’ magazines of the sixties.
But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop I stopped buying books. Seen in the mass, five or ten thousand at a time, books were boring and even slightly sickening. Nowadays I do buy one occasionally, but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow, and I never buy junk. The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoid customers and dead bluebottles. / 5
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Pearson Edexcel
Key Stage 3
Baseline Test: Year 7 / School
English Language
Paper 3: Non-fiction
Key Stage 3 support: Baseline Test (Year 7)
Time: 50 minutes
You must have:
Reading Text Insert / Total Marks

Instructions

Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name and school name.
Answer all questions in the test paper.
You have50 minutes to answer all the questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided

– there may be more space than you need.

Information

The total mark for this paper is 13.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets

– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

Advice

Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.

Non-fiction
Read the text in the Reading Text Insert provided, then answer ALL questions.
You should spend 50 minutes on this paper.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1From lines 1–4, identify two things that will help someone to make a living
from a bookshop.(2)
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(Total for Question 1 = 2 marks)
2From lines 4–10, identify two reasons why the writer thinks a bookshop is not a good place to work.
You may use your own words or a quotation from the text. (2)
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(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)
3From lines 11–14, give two reasons why the writer lost his love of books when he worked in a bookshop.
You may use your own words or a quotation from the text. (2)
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(Total for Question 3 = 2 marks)
4Give one example from lines 14–20 of how the writer uses language to
show how he used to feel about books.(1)
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(Total for Question 4 = 1 mark)
5In this extract the writer presents:

the setting of a bookshop
the types of book he used to like
how he now feels about reading books.

Explore how successfully the writer does this by giving your opinion on how
well each one is presented.
Include examples from the text to support your answer.(6)
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(Total for Question 5 = 6 marks)
TOTAL FOR PAPER = 13 MARKS

Paper 3 Mark scheme

The table below shows the number of raw marks allocated for each question in this mark scheme.

Component:
Non-fiction / Assessment objectives / Total marks
AO1 / AO2 / AO3 / AO4
Question 1 / 2
Question 2 / 2
Question 3 / 2
Question 4 / 1
Question 5 / 6
Questionnumber / (AO1) Answer / Mark
1 / Accept any reasonable answer based on lines 1–4, for example: ‘a good pitch’, ‘the right amount of capital’, ‘knowing anything about the insides of books’. / (2)
Question number / (AO1) Answer / Mark
2 / Accept any reasonable answer based on lines 4–10.
For example:
•‘the hours of work are very long’
•it is unhealthy
•a bookshop is ‘horribly cold in winter’
•the books give off dust
•the books have dead flies on them.
Quotations and candidate’s own words are acceptable. / (2)
Question number / (AO1) Answer / Mark
3 / Accept any reasonable answer based on lines 11–14.
For example:
•‘A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them’
•he had to constantly dust the books
•he had to move the books about,‘hauling them to and fro’.
Quotations and candidate’s own words are acceptable. / (2)
Question number / (AO2) Answer / Mark
4 / Award 1 mark for a valid example from lines 14–20 that shows how the writer used to feel about books.
For example:
•the writer says ‘I really did love books’
•he uses sensory description to show how much he loved books: ‘loved the sight and smell and feel of them’
•he uses exaggeration/hyperbole to show how much he loved them: ‘Nothing pleased me quite so much’
•he uses a metaphor to describe books as having a ‘peculiar flavour’. / (1)
Question number / (AO4) Answer / Mark
5 / Award 1 mark for each critical judgement made, to a maximum of 3 marks.
Award 1 mark for each relevant example given, to a maximum of 3 marks. Do not accept an example without a critical judgement.
For example:
The bookshop is presented very cleverly in the extract as it shows how it feels, looks and smells, which allows the reader to imagine it clearly. (1)The writer uses vivid language to make the reader feel how cold it is, ‘horribly cold’, and how dusty the books are, ‘more and nastier dust’, which creates a very strong image in the reader’s mind. (1) / (6)

[1] funding, money

[2] job

[3] old money