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    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education *4766815836* ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Paper 1 Reading and Writing (Core) 0510/11 October/November 2011 1 hour 30 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips

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    A volcano is an opening in the earth ’s surface through which lava‚ hot gases‚ and rock fragments erupt. These openings are formed when melted rock from deep in the earth build up around the opening‚ and form mountains. When these openings erupt they shoot out huge fiery clouds over the mountain‚ and spew glowing rivers of melted lava down their sides. In some eruptions‚ red-hot ash and cinders shoot out the mountaintop‚ and large chunks of hot rock are blasted high into the air. Only a few spectacular

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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that sustains life‚ and therefore one of the most intriguing planets because of its capabilities. Each of the seven other planets that orbit the same sun as Earth is interesting in its own way. Some planets share similar characteristics to those found on Earth‚ while other planets are completely different. An analysis of these terrestrial bodies‚ using comparative planetology‚ will allow us examine these qualities. However‚ before beginning such a process

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    Antoine Henri Becquerel was born in Paris on December 15‚ 1852. He was a member of a family of scholars and scientists over four generations‚ including his grandfather‚ Antoine-Cesar Becquerel (1788-1878)‚ his father‚ Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (1820-91)‚ and his own son Jean Becquerel (1878-1953). After his early schooling at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand‚ Henri studied engineering at the École des Ponts et Chaussées (1874-77)‚ history at the École Polytechnique (1872-74) and his fields of science were

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    After Port-Louis‚ the capital city of Mauritius‚ Curepipe is the second most important city of our island both in terms of size and significance. The name Curepipe is gleaned from an eponymous town in France and today it is found only 18 km or 11 miles to the South of the Capital city of Port Louis. Mauritius is an eye-catching island‚ floating in the Western corner of Indian Ocean. The history of Curepipe being settled with its residents deals with the malaria epidemic that had broken out in 1867

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    Dione and the mother for Aphrodite she was describe as a temple associate. Dione is about 1‚118km is diameter and has a density of 1.43gm/cm the rest is ice. The temperature is extremely cold and the distance from Saturn is 377‚400 km‚ and includes crater area that measure about 100 km in diameter. Dione was discovered in 1684 by Giovanni

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    Gloria Steinem Feminism

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    Under the influence of many songs like “You Don’t Own Me”‚ women in the society started to take the revolutionary thoughts into actions. One of the most pioneering feminist leaders was Gloria Steinem. After graduating from Smith College in 1956‚ Steinem chose to travel to India and continue to study instead of getting married as many other women at the time‚ and later‚ she established her career as a freelance writer. One of her most famous article was about her experience in the New York City’s

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    The nineteenth century was a time of unequal gender opportunities. Men were the superior figure‚ while women were unable to participate in many actions. As a child Mary Wollstonecraft grew up watching her mother be mistreated by her father which was taken to heart and carried on with her. With this‚ she wanted to make a change in world and share her thoughts that no other woman could have been able to do. Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‚ is known as the first great feminist

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    Jansen. Jansen is credited of inventing the compound microscope. Galileo is considered the first person to point the telescope skyward (nasa.gov). Even though Galileo’s perfection of the telescope was not perfect‚ he was able to see mountains and craters on the moon. Galileo Galilee nominated his telescope as a concave telescope‚ because it has a lens with inward curving surfaces. Till 1611 Johannes Kepler switched the concave eyepiece to a convex eyepiece. This allowed the telescope to gain a much

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    DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid to Earth‚ about 17‚150 miles. The meteor released several kilotons of energy. Some meterorite fragments fell in a reservoir outside of the town of Chebarkul. It left a twenty six foot wide crater in the ice. The shock wave blew more than one million square feet of glass. Over 3‚000 buildings in the city were damaged. Over 1‚100 people were injured after the shock wave and about forty eight of them were hospitalized. Most injuries were caused

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