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Section One
Use of English
a. has even been blamed for causing, or at least exacerbating, the crisis.
b. has even been blamed for sparking early onset puberty.
c. has even been blamed for disruptive behaviour.
d. has even been blamed for contributing to the closure of some busi-
nesses.
4)
Research by Kellogg’s found 81 per cent of teachers say hungry children
are unable to concentrate, while 75 per cent say they are more lethargic
and
a. 47 per cent say they are happy sometimes.
b. 47 per cent say hungry children are unable to learn.
c. 47 per cent say the work being done by teacher at school is, in itself,
insufficient and so they are desperate to add to this.
d. 47 per cent say emotion plays a role in their investment decisions.
5)
*According to the hard hitting report, the health of youngsters is
a. being put on the line when it comes to making a major game.
b. being put on the line with education and job cuts that will undermine
our ability to recruit new business.
c. being put on the line to reward these dangerous and reckless institu-
tions.
d. being put on the line as a rising number of British kids arrive at
school hungry.
6)
Add the financial cost of £5.2 million in lost teaching hours every year to
the physical and emotional cost to children, and Kellogg’s A Lost Educa-
tion report makes for grim reading. It found a child arriving at school
hungry at least once a week
a. loses
36 hours of learning time in a school year – amounting to 8.4
weeks of lost learning over their primary school life.
b. develops an allergy to strawberries that may be banned that year for
example.
c. answers questions correctly.
d. has problems understanding the instructional discourse.
7)
To help combat child hunger in the classroom, we are teaming up with
Kellogg’s to launch a brilliant nationwide campaign
a. to promote the use of technology in the classroom.
b. to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read.
c. to serve up two million breakfasts in the most deprived areas of Brit-
ain.
d. to
raise awareness of burns and scalds and how to prevent them.
4. Analyse the text from both a linguistic perspective and stylistic point of view.