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BBA Educational Resources 2010
BBA PRACTICE MODEL EXAMINATION
2010
ENGLISH
Level Two
RESOURCE BOOKLET
90380
Read unfamiliar texts and analyse the ideas and language features.
Refer to this booklet to answer the questions for
Practice Exam English 90380.
Check that this booklet has pages 2-5 in the correct order and that
none of these pages is blank.
YOU MUST HAND THIS BOOKLET TO THE SUPERVISOR
AT THE END OF THE ASSESSMENT.
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TEXT A: Clean and Green-or Poisoned Paradise? (written text newspaper editorial)
Read Text A, then answer questions One and Two in the 90380 Answer Booklet.
TEXT A
New Zealand is not clean and green: thats just an advertising slogan. New Zealanders
already know this, and now the world is catching on. The article in last weeks Guardian
points out the gap between the promise and the product, and paints us as eco-hypocrites.
Theres plenty of truth in the charge. After all, its only a few decades since we were
telling the world we were pure and lovely. But our history up to that point was dirty and
brown, like the history of most other countries. Even if were green in everything we do
now and we are not we would still live in a country polluted by its past.
Russel Norman talks about the countrys dirty little secret, how we trade off our green
image when our environmental record has been anything but. He is right in an obvious
sense. Rotorua is one of the gems in the tiara of the countrys tourism industry, with
its lovely lakes and hills, its geothermal miracles, its vibrant Maori culture. Yet its main
lake is a pond of eutrophication and weed, a sump of pollution. The Garden City of
Christchurch is for much of winter submerged in a lthy brown soup. It is only a few
years ago that Wellington was still pouring raw sewage into its harbour.
Dirty dairying remains a stubborn fact, no matter what progress has been made in recent
times: our premier export industry continues to pollute the waterways at home. New
Zealand farming, for most of its history, was careless of the landscape and addicted
to chemicals. The pioneer farmers cut and burnt the bush nearly everywhere. Vast
swathes of land should never have been cleared, and have left great running sores of
erosion. Our native jungles are now tourist magnets, but it was only a generation ago
that we were still felling them. The kauri forests are world treasures but they are the
scant survivors of ecological genocide.
We can of course still offer a clean, green face to the world, but that is only one of the
faces of our country. We win prizes for Whale Watch tourism at Kaikoura, but its not
long in historical terms since we were enthusiastic whalers. The Buller River is wild and
beautiful; it is infested with didymo. Nelson offers limpid lakes and toxic chemical sites.
Where does this leave us? Should we stop telling the world we are clean and green?
Well, there are still plenty of clean and green places in New Zealand and we can continue
to take tourists there. Milford Sound isnt going to clog up or smog over any time soon.
Mt Cook will still shine and Tane Mahuta will continue to bloom. But at the very least we
are going to have to try much harder to live up to our national myth.
Clean and green started as a complacent advertising slogan and a quarter-truth and is
now a national lash and goad: if we dont start turning it into a more accurate description
of reality, there will be no end to articles like the one in the Guardian.
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Clean and Green - or Poisoned Paradise?
Editorial, Sunday Star Times, November 15th, 2009.
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TEXT B: Out of the Wind (written text - poetry)
Read Text B, then answer Questions Three and Four in the 90380 Answer Booklet.
TEXT B
Turbine 2008. http://www.nzetc.org/iiml/turbine/Turbi08/poetry/
Kirks stands for Kirkcaldies & Stains, a long-established department store on
Wellingtons Lambton Quay, well-known for its big winter sale.
You wander in, oh innocent, just
to get out of the wind. Barely have time
to take one lung-sustaining breath
before you go down, pressed
into the surging bull-kelp Kirks*
mid-winter sale. The great whites
are out in force, cruising the displays
of cut-price cashmere, never blinking
their cold disc eyes, but snapping
shawls off the very ngertips of the slow,
draping dorsal ns with pastel pasminas
pretty as sucked-out angel sh, or black
and at as a chomped-on wetsuit. You ap
down there, pinned to a rack of leftovers.
Its buy or die. So you harpoon your way
to the surface, using your brand new pink
umbrella, half-price, very chic, which
inverts in a blossoming manner, anemone
on a stick, the instant you breach
at Lambton Quay and Brandon, glorying
in the full-funnelled southerly wallop.
- Sue Wootton
Out of the wind
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READING VISUAL TEXTS
TEXT C: Oxfam Unwrapped (visual text - poster)
Read Text C, then answer Question Five in the 90380 Answer Booklet.
TEXT C
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READING ORAL TEXTS
TEXT D: Beyond Grievance: 2010 Prime Ministers Waitangi Day address (oral text -
speech)
Read Text D, then answer question Six in the 90380 Answer Booklet.
BBA Educational Resources 2010
Source: http://www.johnkey.co.nz/categories/4-Speech (edited)
Beyond Grievance
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.On this day one hundred and seventy years ago, just kilometres
from this room, our forebears came together to sign a unique and
ambitious document: The Treaty of Waitangi.
Today we remember that momentous occasion as the formal coming
together of two pioneering peoples, of the Maori people who rst
settled this land, and of the British people who sought to share it. We
share a respect for the rule of law, for property rights and for a basic
sense of fairness in which Jack is as good as his neighbour. As a
Government, we are impatient to stop looking in the rear-view mirror at
grievances past, and to instead shift our eyes to the challenges of our
shared future as New Zealanders.
I want to shift our focus and energy from the settling of historic
claims and the sense of grievance it conjures, so that we can instead
throw ourselves at the next phase in our history. Iwi leaders see the
experience of others who settled in the late 1990s and how much they
have achieved in the intervening period. They do not want to spend
time and money on litigation and negotiation; they all want to cut
to the chase, achieve good settlements and move on. Today let me
assure you that this Government shares their desire to move on. Our
foot is rmly on the settlement pedal. We dont think its good enough
for settlements to be stalled by an inadequate or creaky bureaucracy.
This Waitangi Day, I think we can all agree that its time to consign
the grievance mentality to the history books. Why cant this be the
generation of New Zealanders who open the next chapter in our
history?
Lets move on and acknowledge that in modern-day New Zealand,
the history of colonisation and injustice cant be allowed to dominate
decision-making or be used as a crutch for supporting dependency
and a lack of personal responsibility. This wont happen without
debate. Inevitably solutions will have to be found. It will, from time to
time, challenge both sides. And it wont always be perfect. But if we
are successful it will be worth it. We will have a New Zealand that will
make us all proud. A New Zealand that will really deliver equality of
opportunity. A New Zealand betting the 21st century.
So this Waitangi Day, lets strengthen our resolve. Let us get behind the
settlement process so we can move beyond grievance, and towards
the brighter future we all deserve.
- John Key
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