w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level 1123/22 ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Reading October/November 2013 INSERT 1 hour 45 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This insert contains the two reading passages. This document consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page. DC (SJF) 91825 © UCLES 2013 [Turn over 2 Passage 1 Electronic Book Readers 1 A new phenomenon
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Topher Carroll The O’Reilly Factor May 29‚ 2012 The O’Reilly Factor has a reputation for exerting a very conservative overtone‚ naturally many question whether the typical “news standards” are being followed. The show leads off with a segment on Planned Parenthood and the presidential election‚ an issue where Bill O’Reilly has already indicated his stance that he is “pro-life”. When it comes to such partisan dividing issues‚ O’Reilly asserts his stance‚ and then goes on to further undermine
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Child and Insect Child and Insect by Robert Druce introduces a poem which addresses the relationship between a child and insect after the child has carelessly caused the death of the grasshopper. The actions the grasshopper goes through determine the emotions and reactions of the child. The child is stripped of his innocence as he experiences death for the first time and is mocked by his mother for not understanding his mixed emotions. Throughout the poem the child experiences several emotions
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Journal of Applied Psychology 1989‚ m 74‚ No‚ 3‚478-494 Copyright 1989 by the American Psychological Association‚ Inc. 0021-9010/89/S00.75 Validity of Personnel Decisions: A Conceptual Analysis of the Inferential and Evidential Bases John F. Binning Gerald V. Barrett Illinois State University University of Akron Issues common to both the process of building psychological theories and validating personnel decisions are examined. Inferences linking psychological constructs and
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observations: o He noticed that children of the same ages tended to get the same answers wrong o He noticed that the errors of children of a particular age differed in systematic ways from those of older or younger children • To study children’s behavior‚ Piaget relied on observation and interviews o He would give the children a problem and ask them to interpret how they plan to solve the problem • Piaget’s theory proposed that over development‚ the child acquires new
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today we fail to address several issues that need to be addressed. Unfortunately‚ child abuse is one of the major issues that our country is plagued with‚ yet we neglect to bring this to the attention of the entire nation. It is often over looked because everyone has a different view of what exactly defines child abuse. The International Child Abuse Network (ICAN) uses four basis catigories to docunment the child abuse cases. They are: emotional abuse‚ neglect‚ physical abuse‚ and sexual abuse
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Monday morning in 2009‚ the day after the security breach. The principal decision maker is Mina O’Reilly‚ one of about 100 Supervisor Transportation Security Officers (STSO) at Logan Airport. O’Reilly was responsible for supervising both Ludo Sanchez‚ the Transportation Security Officer who was directly responsible for the security breach‚ and the Lead Transportation Security Office (LTSO) who had been directly supervising Sanchez at the time of the breach. Leaving behind her partnership in a
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Bull. Mater. Sci.‚ Vol. 25‚ No. 6‚ November 2002‚ pp. 527–531. © Indian Academy of Sciences. Studies of properties of rubber wood with impregnation of polymer RASHMI R DEVI and T K MAJI* Department of Chemical Sciences‚ Tezpur University‚ Tezpur 784 028‚ India Abstract. Impregnation of rubber wood has been carried out under different conditions by using styrene as grafting monomer and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) as crosslinker. Properties such as dimensional stability‚ water absorption‚ hardness
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The Drama of a Man’s Mid-life Crisis The story "O’ Youth and Beauty!" by John Cheever is about the Bentley family‚ who live in Shady Hill as a happily married couple‚ who have their fair share ups and downs. Cash Bentley‚ the father of the household‚ is a former track star who has many money problems‚ and at times can be very touchy. Cash also had a charming quality of stubborn youthfulness‚ and felt they he always need to prove his youthfulness to his peers. Everytime the Bentleys went out drinking
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Joseph‚ the son of O’Luminous was abandoned as a child after is father’s death. The death of the king left the entire civilization of The New World hopeless.The day after the king’s death‚ Joseph rediscovered who he was. The god of hope‚ Ydar‚ granted extraordinary powers on Joseph‚ such as extreme intelligence and time travel. Joseph soon fled to the Predator Jungle overwhelmed by his powers. Joseph has had a rough childhood‚ with his father’s death when he was ten and his mother’s disappearance
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