Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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Read the following text, which is a review of a virtual reality experience designed by the sculptor Antony Gormley. The moon is deeply embedded in ...
Read the following text, which is an extract from Michelle Obama's autobiography Becoming. I was about four when I decided I wanted to learn piano...
Read the following text, which is a review of Augustine Sedgewick's book Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favourite Drug. Th...
Read the following text, which is an article about robots in the workplace.
Read the following text, which is the opening of a short story published in 1952. The text describes the arrival of a train in an unnamed village i...
Read the following text, which is an article promoting 'forest bathing' from National Geographic website. The secret to mindful travel? A walk in t...
Read the following text, which is a review of a memoir.
Read the following text, which is an article about the use of horses instead of motor vehicles in France. 'A gentle calm': France's streets once a...
Read the following text, which is an online sports article about a cricketer who has adopted a vegan diet. Analyse the text, focusing on form, stru...
The following text is taken from a website advertising a holiday location. In the azure waters of the Indian Ocean there is an island like no other...
The following text is taken from an account of the moments when the ship Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912. High in the crow's-nest of the new White S...
The following text is taken from an autobiographical account of growing up. Since I'm still in my senior year of high school none of my memories ar...
The following extract is taken from a speech to the Organisation of African Unity given by Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, in 1963.
The following text is taken from a travel book. It describes the writer's experience of Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia, an area of the south...
The following text describes how the writer, an English tutor, tries to help one of her students to take life less seriously. They are sitting in a...
The article below is a newspaper opinion column that discusses contact with work during holiday periods. Out of office, out of mind – free yoursel...
The following text is from Langston Hughes's autobiography The Big Sea (1940). In this extract he recalls journeying back to the United States from...
The following passage is by the travel writer Eric Newby. In it he recalls a childhood trip to the exclusive department store Harrods, in London. ...
The extracts below are from an online review of the best bakeries in Orlando, Florida, USA. Take the Cake (or Pie or Cookie) at Orlando's best Bak...
The extract below is the opening of Anita Shreve's novel The Pilot's Wife. She heard a knocking, and then a dog barking. Her dream left her, skitte...
The following extract comes from One Day I Will Write About This Place, the autobiography of Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. The taxi drops me o...
The following text is an extract from a travelogue about the writer's first visit to the Maldives. Down below there was water - lots of water. The...
In the extract which follows, taken from a collection of scientific essays, the writer describes a discovery made during an archaeological dig. 'L...
In the following text, taken from an anthology of travel writing, the author remembers joining a group of children and their uncle on a boat journe...
In the following passage from his autobiography, Sooyong Park writes about his search for the elusive white tiger in Siberia.
The following text is a blog post taken from the website of a company which sells lifestyle events and experiences.
The following passage is the opening of V S Naipaul's novel, A House for Mr Biswas.
The following text is taken from a letter written in 1973 by the famous American novelist Kurt Vonnegut to Charles McCarthy, the Chairman of the Dr...
The following text is taken from the website of a travel agency that specialises in holidays in Brazil. The text includes details of the first two ...
The following text is taken from a memoir entitled The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred. I had been woken by a sudden downdraft of air that le...
Read the following text, which is an extract from a speech given in 1994 by Hillary R. Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Wom...
Read the following text, which is an editorial piece about the environment from the LA Times, an American newspaper. Human activities could erase 1...
Read the following text, which is an extract from the novel My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, about the narrator's love of reading and he...
Read the following text, which is an advertisement from an online shop, about the benefits of sleeping on silk pillowcases. Can A Silk Pillowcase ...
Read the following text, which is an article about happy and healthy ageing, published in a British newspaper. Do we really have to wait until we ...
Read the following text, which is an extract from a travelogue describing the filming of a travel documentary called Around the World in Eighty Day...
Read the following text, which is an article from an online newspaper about an innovative art exhibition in Madrid, Spain. Prado creates palette o...
Read the following text, which is an extract from an article from an online sports magazine, featuring an interview with South African cricketer Sh...
Read the following text, which is an extract from a book by an explorer and adventurer.
Read the following text, which is an article about how scientists plan to build biocomputers to emulate the human brain.
The following text is taken from an account of the writer's experience of extreme weather in Vietnam, in South East Asia. Mornings in Vietnam in t...
The following text is taken from a newspaper review of a biography about Simon Cowell, the creator of, and judge on, the international television p...
The following text is taken from an article which describes the writer's experience of returning to her home country of Liberia, West Africa. Ever...
The following is one of a series of magazine articles in which the writer describes his unusual relatives. My late paternal grandad Ted was an almo...
The following text is an extract from a letter to the boss of an airline company. In it, the writer complains about his experience as a customer on...
The following text is taken from a travel magazine. It describes the writer's experience of being lost in a hostile landscape. The sun is still ove...
The passage below is a speech made by Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister, in response to an attempt by the leader of the opposition – Tony Ab...
The following extract is from The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton.
The following text is an entry from an internet diary kept by Simon Dixey, a member of the crew of a sailing boat during their round-the-world race...
The following is a magazine article about people taking up running. MAY 7, 2015 CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A RUNNER NOW Hey, buddy! You're receiving ...