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    'Inkheart' by Cornelia Funke tells the story of a young girl's love of books. Her father, mo, often stayed up reading late into the night. 'There's someone out in the yard!' he said. 'Yes. He's staring at our house.'

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    Cambridge International Examinations

    Cambridge Secondary 1 Checkpoint

    1111/02

    ENGLISH
    Paper 2 Fiction

    For Examination from 2018

    SPECIMEN INSERT
    1 hour plus 10 minutes reading time

    This document consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page.


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    Text for Section A, an extract from Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
    While looking out of her bedroom window, Meggie spots a figure standing in the shadows
    outside her house. She immediately goes to find her father, Mo.
    There was still a light on in Mos room. He often stayed up reading late into the night. Meggie
    had inherited her love of books from her father. When she took refuge from a bad dream with
    him, nothing could lull her back to sleep better than Mos calm breathing beside her and the
    sound of the pages turning. Nothing chased away nightmares faster than the rustle of printed
    paper.

    But the figure outside the house was no dream.


    The book Mo was reading was bound in pale blue linen. Later, Meggie remembered that too.
    What unimportant little details stick in the memory.
    Mo, theres someone out in the yard!
    Her father raised his head and looked at her with the usual absent expression he wore when
    she interrupted his reading. It always took him a few moments to find his way out of that other
    world, the labyrinth of printed letters.

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    Someone out in the yard? Are you sure?


    Yes. Hes staring at our house.
    Mo put down his book. So what were you reading before you went to sleep? Dr Jekyll and Mr
    Hyde1?

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    Meggie frowned. Please, Mo! Come and look.


    He didnt believe her, but he went anyway. Meggie tugged him along the corridor so impatiently
    that he stubbed his toe on a pile of books, which was hardly surprising. Stacks of books were
    piled high all over the house not just arranged on bookshelves, the way other people kept
    them, oh no! The books in Mo and Meggies house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in
    the corners of rooms. There were books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory2. Books on
    the TV set and in the wardrobe, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin,
    books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly open pages, they
    kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fell over them.

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    Hes just standing there! whispered Meggie, leading Mo into her room.
    Has he got a hairy face? If so, he could be a werewolf.
    Oh, stop it! Meggie looked at him sternly, although his jokes made her feel less scared.
    Already, she hardly believed any more in the figure standing in the rain until she knelt down
    again at the window. There! Do you see him? she whispered.
    Mo looked out through the raindrops running down the pane, and said nothing.
    Didnt you promise burglars would never break into our house because theres nothing here to
    steal? whispered Meggie.

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    Hes not a burglar, replied Mo, but as he stepped back from the window his face was so grave
    that Meggies heart thudded faster than ever. Go back to bed, Meggie, he said. This visitor
    has come to see me.
    He left the room before Meggie could ask what kind of visitor, for goodness sake, turned up
    in the middle of the night. She followed him anxiously. As she crept down the corridor, she
    heard her father taking the chain off the front door, and when she reached the hall she saw him
    standing in the open doorway. The night came in, dark and damp, and the rushing of the rain
    sounded loud and threatening.

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    Dustfinger! called Mo into the darkness. Is that you?


    Dustfinger? What kind of a name was that? Meggie couldnt remember hearing it before, yet it
    sounded familiar, like a distant memory that wouldnt take shape properly.
    At first, all seemed still outside except for the rain falling, murmuring as if the night had found
    its voice. But then footsteps approached the house, and the man emerged from the darkness
    of the yard, his long coat so wet with rain that it clung to his legs. For a split second, as the
    stranger stepped into the light spilling out of the house, Meggie thought she saw a small furry
    head over his shoulder, snuffling as it looked out of his rucksack and then quickly disappearing
    back into it.

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    Dustfinger wiped his wet face with his sleeve and offered his hand.
    How are you, Silvertongue? he asked. Its been a long time.
    Hesitantly, Mo took the outstretched hand. A very long time, he said, looking past his visitor as
    if he expected to see another figure emerge from the night. Come in, youll catch your death.
    Meggie says youve been standing out there for some time.

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    Meggie? Ah yes, of course. Dustfinger let Mo lead him into the house. He scrutinised Meggie
    so thoroughly that she felt embarrassed and didnt know where to look. In the end, she just
    stared back.
    Shes grown.
    You remember her?

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    Of course.
    Meggie noticed that Mo double locked the door.
    Glossary
    1 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a famous horror story
    2 lavatory bathroom/toilet

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    Copyright Acknowledgements:
    Text for Section A

    Cornelia Funke; Inkheart; Chicken House; 2011.

    Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every
    reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the
    publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity.
    Cambridge International Examinations is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local
    Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge.

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