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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1115/02, 1120/02, 1123/02
1124/02, 1125/02
Paper 2
October/November 2005
1 hour 30 minutes
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Pavlo
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It is a curious thing, but when you keep animals as pets you imagine they will behave
exactly as you would like them to. However, some animals have such strong
personalities that you cannot force them to behave as you would wish. Of all the animals
I have kept as pets, the creature who was best able to resist all my attempts to turn him
into something he was not was a marmoset monkey called Pavlo.
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Pavlo’s story really started one evening when I was on a trip to South America. I was
sitting near a clearing in the forest just as the sun was setting. The sky was a glorious
pink, and outlined against it were massive trees, their branches so entwined with
creepers that each tree looked as though it had been caught in a giant spider’s web. I felt
totally relaxed and at ease. Suddenly the silence was shattered by a shrill squeak of
such intensity that it felt as though someone had driven a needle into my ear. Puzzled, I
peered into the trees above, trying to see where the sound had come from. It seemed
the wrong sort of note for an insect, and far too sharp to come from a bird. There, on a
branch above me, I saw the source of the noise. A tiny marmoset was trotting along a
wide branch as though it were an open highway, picking his way through the orchids that
grew in profusion there. He put his small hands among the leaves and, it seemed, more
by good fortune than by skill, emerged with a precious cockroach clutched firmly
between his fingers. I was entranced.
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Some time later, my attention was again drawn to marmosets. When passing a pet shop
in my home town, I saw it contained a cage ful