Section 2: Reading for Meaning Read Passage 2 in the insert and answer all the questions below. From paragraph 1

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (May/June 2014). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [1] (a) (Going) shopping / to the shops (Don't Allow: Lift of 'one of the rituals...with her grandmother'; Food shopping or any other specific shopping; Reference to Alice holding the bag = 0(N))
2. [1] (b) (i) The (shopping) bag knocked her (on the) leg
3. [1] (b) (ii) She didn't know which things / purchases went together / went with other things / purchases // things / purchases that went together had to be explained to her // she didn't know that peaches got bruised / shouldn't be put in a string bag (Allow: She didn't know that vegetables and soap shouldn't be in the same bag // She didn't know that tins and soap could be in the same bag) (Don't Allow: Inclusion of 'she was allowed to hold the shopping bag' = 0(N))
4. [1] (b) (iii) She pretended to be Net Man / she play-acted / pretended to be someone else // she used the string bag as a (Net Man) costume // she could fit in / she wore the (string) bag (Don't Allow: Lift, in whole or in part, of 'Alice was holding...Net Man? = 0(N))
5. [1] (c) She told Alice not to worry over and over / repeatedly (when the eggs broke) // She said 'Don't worry, don't worry' over and over / repeatedly // She reassured / comforted Alice over and over / repeatedly (when the eggs broke) (Allow: Lift of lines 7–8 'Don't worry...again') (Don't Allow: She didn't care that the eggs were broken = 0(N); She took her shopping =0(N))