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HKDSEE-ENG LANG PAPER 1 - 1
INSTRUCTIONS
1 Write your candidate number in the spaces provided on
this page.
2. Stick your barcode label in the space provided on
this page.
3. There are two parts in this paper. Answer ALL ques-
tions in Part A. In part B, you should choose EITHER
Section 1 (easier) OR Section 2 (more difficult).
4. The reading passages are in a separate booklet.
Write your answers clearly and neatly in the spaces
provided in this Question-Answer Book. Use a pen-
cil to write your answers. Answers written in the
margins will not be marked.
4 For multiple-choice questions, blacken the ap-
propriate circle with pencil. Wrong marks must be
completely erased with a clean rubber. Mark only ONE
answer to each question. Two or more answers will
score NO MARKS.
5. DO NOT take away the Reading Passages booklet. It
will be collected separately at the end of the
examination.
6. Supplementary answer sheets will be supplied on request.
Write your candidate number, fill in the question number
and stick a barcode label on each sheet and fasten them
with string INSIDE this Question-Answer Book.
Candidate Number
ELITE EXAM 5-STAR SERIES
HONG KONG DIPLOMA OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
EXAMINATION
Marker’s
Use Only
Examiner’s
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Marker No. Examiner’s No.
Part Marks Marks
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B1
B2
Total
Please stick the barcode label here.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1
QUESTION-ANSWER BOOK
Sample
TIME ALLOWED: 1 hour 30 minutes
(20% of the subject mark)
HKDSEE-ENG LANG PAPER 1 - 2
Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise stated.
Part A (56 marks)
Answer questions 1-38 using information from the passage on page 2 of the Reading Passages booklet. Write
your answers in the spaces provided. For multiple-choice questions, choose the best answer and blacken ONE
circle only.
1. Look at the expression ‘subject of much speculation’ in line 2 . Decide which of the definitions below is
closest in meaning.
A. object of scientific enquiry
B. issue that is highly argumentative
C. topic that involves a lot of guesswork
D. question of good judgment
2. Which of the following is most concerned about happiness?
A. historian
B. sociologist
C. criminologist
D. educationist
3. Complete each description about happiness by underlining the correct option. One has been done for you
as an example. (5 marks)
4. Find words in lines 1 - 12 which could be replaced by the following: (4 marks)
a. practical judgment __________________________________
b. be plentiful __________________________________
c. really __________________________________
d. help develop __________________________________
5. Based on the information given, which of the following is true.
A. Parents are happier because they have children.
B. People who have no religion are happier.
C. University students are happier than uneducated people.
D. Friendship can make people happier.
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Money and happiness is (questionably/unquestionably)
correlated, however, the association is (convincing/
unconvincing).
Research finds out that one’s happiness is (connected/
disconnected) with how old one is. One’s average level of
happiness remains (constant/unsteady) throughout one’s life.
Prettiness may bring (benefits/harm) to people, but happiness
and attractiveness is (highly/hardly) unrelated.
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
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6. Find expressions in paragraphs 2-5 which mean the opposite of the phrases below: (2 marks)
A. fall below ______________ ______________
B. be surprisingly unsteady ______________ ______________ ______________
7. Name 5 factors that may contribute to happiness.
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8. What does ‘it’ in line 6 refer to?
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9. Name three factors which are found to be unrelated to happiness:
________________________________________________________________________________
10. The style of this article is:
A. formal
B. informal
C. poetical
D. literary
11. What is the writer’s main purpose in writing the article?
A. to complain
B. to explain
C. to entertain
D. to proclaim
12. Who is his target audience/reader?
A. a student
B. a friend
C. the general public
D. the poor people
13. What can ‘key’ in line 8 be replaced by?
A. opener
B. solution
C. answer
D. result
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
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14. Explain why health may not produce happiness? (2 marks)
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15. Based on the information in this article, can you list out the characteristics of a happy person? (3 marks)
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16. Why do you think the information about happiness in this article is reliable?
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17. What are the areas of strength and weakness of the following factors in promoting happiness? (4 marks)
Factor Areas of strength Areas of weakness
Parenthood ____________________________________
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Beauty ____________________________________
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Love and Marriage ____________________________________
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18. How many of these factors are mentioned in the article? Mark each picture with a tick ( )in the box if
it is mentioned and a cross ( ) if it is not. (5 marks)
A. B. C.
D. E.
Two friends are discussing the article about the determinants of happiness. Complete their conversation with
suitable words or expressions from the box below. Use each answer ONCE only. The first one has been done for
you as an example. (11 marks)
A. seems to B. done by
C. aren’t a bit D. it’s a bit
E. to be F. did you get
G. afraid that H. the same with
I. got it from J. is it only
K. would be L. how about
It’s (26) _________ money. Attractive people may
enjoy some advantages but they (27) _________ hap-
pier than unattractive people.
Oh, I’m (28) _________ many people
(29) _________ disappointed to hear all of these
latest findings about happiness.
I (22) _________ a scientific journal. It says it is
the result of empirical analysis (23) _________
social scientists.
Anyway, (24) _________ surprising as most
people think money promotes happiness. Hey,
(25) _________ beauty?
Do you know that money is found _________
unrelated to happiness? It (19) _________ con-
tradict commonsense thinking.
Oh, really. Where (20) _________ that piece of
information? Is it reliable? (21) _________
guesswork?
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Writing in Response: Letter to the editor of a newspaper
Below is a draft letter written by your friend P. Yip in response to the article. Read the choice of words and
expressions given and help P. Yip to express his support for the viewpoint of the article by underlining the best
option as shown in the example. (9 marks)
He feels (aspired / satisfied / inspired) with his result.
The article about the determinants of happiness is a piece of wisdom much needed today. Though it is
(30) convincing / contrary / conflicting to popular beliefs, it is a good (31) reminder / warning / suggestion to
those who think that money can (32) produce / provide / boost their happiness.
Moreover, it also reminds people to pay (33) detention / concentration / attention to those factors that are really
(34) contented / associated / undertaken with happiness, such as love, marriage and work. People who don’t like
to work but always dream of getting rich would be very (35) disgusted / delighted / disappointed to read this
article. I hope they can (36) direct / change / advise their view of happiness and start working hard.
As a whole, I appreciate the wisdom of this article. It helps make our society become less (37) materialistic /
monetary / financial but more (38) contradictory / spiritual / broadening.
P. Yip, Tsim Sha Tsui
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Part B
Choose EITHER Section 1 (easier) OR section 2 (more difficult).
Section 1 (46 marks)
Answer question 39-56 using information from the stories shown on pages 3 of the reading passages booklet.
Write your answers in the spaces provided. For multiple-choice question, choose the best answer and blacken
ONE circle only.
39. How did the people in the stories get their money?
A. They got it by earning.
B. They got it by winning.
C. Some got it by earning whereas the others by winning.
D. Some got it by winning whereas the others by inheriting.
40. Which part of the world did these stories take place?
A. the West
B. the East
C. the Middle-east
D. the Poles
41. What types of content does these stories feature?
A. historical record of rich people
B. advice about how to use money
C. scientific information about money
D. comments and personal stories
42. Read Story A carefully and decide if the following are true (T), false (F) or not stated (X). Put appropriate
symbols in the boxes below. (3 marks)
A. Carol King got more friends after she had won the lottery. _______
B. Carol King became a drunk. _______
C. Carol King was estranged from her family.
43. Which word best describes Carol’s life after winning the lottery?
________________________________________________________________________________
44. Which words in Story A mean the same as the following? (4 marks)
A. handling ____________ ____________
B. made unfriendly ____________________________
C. poor ____________________________
D. ended up ____________ ____________
45. What does the expression ‘struck it rich’ mean in Story A?
________________________________________________________________________________
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
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46. Look at how ‘pool’ is used in Story A and decide which of the definitions below is closest in meaning.
A. a small area of still water in a hollow place
B. a common supply of money, goods, workers etc
C. a type of American billiards
D. a sort of betting
47. What can ‘eventually’ in line 6 be replaced by?
A. similarly
B. surprisingly
C. finally
D. subsequently
48. Complete the sentence below: (2 marks)
According to Story A, people who become rich suddenly can go ____________________ when they
____________________ extravagantly.
49. Look for words or expressions in Story B which are the opposite in meaning to: (3 marks)
a. negative influence ____________ ____________
b. contact with ____________ ____________
c. to be mean ____________________
50. Name two illegal things that Jack Nicholson had committed: (2 marks)
He had committed ____________________and ____________________ .
51. What does the expression ‘under the influence’ in line 11 mean?
___________________________________________________________________________________
52. In Story C, which of the following items do the Johnsons and the Thompsons differ from each other?
Circle more than one answer if appropriate.
Profession / age / income / wants / life satisfaction / marital harmony
53. Look at how ‘chain’ (line 21) is used in Story D and decide which of the definitions below is closest in
meaning.
A. a series of connected metal rings
B. a series of connected things or people
C. a group of shops/stores owned by the same company
D. a thing that restricts one’s freedom or ability to do something
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
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54. What are the TWO good things that John Robbins (Story D) and Bill Gates (Story E) have done? (4 marks)
a. John Robbins
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b. Bill Gates
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55. Read the following comments, matching each with ONE of the messages on pages 3 of the reading
passages booklet. Use each letter ONCE only. The first is given to you as an example: (5 marks)
I support the conclusion – money can make you happy if you spend it by helping others.
I wonder if he would feel happier by giving money than earning it. He must have known
that it is more blessed to give than to get.
I hate the person who smothered the child with lots of money. This is definitely not love
but harm.
I appreciate such a person. If I were him, I would not close down the business. But I think
he knows how money should better be used.
So money is a relative concept. It is not how much money you have but how much desire
you get.
I think friends should give advice rather than go away.
Fe.g.
HKDSEE-ENG LANG PAPER 1 - 10
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Happin
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com
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wh
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know
how
to
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the
mon
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befo
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They
end
up
feel
ing
poor
er.
HKDSEE-ENG LANG PAPER 1 - 11
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Section 2 (50 marks)
Answer question 57-76 using information from the poem on page 4 and the article on page 5 of the reading
passages booklet. Write your answers in the spaces provided. For multiple-choice questions, choose the best
answer and blacken ONE circle only.
57. Name any FIVE of the performers portrayed in this poem? (2 marks)
a. _________________ b. _________________ c. _________________
d. _________________ e. _________________
58. Which performer plays with the people? How do you know?
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59. How do the people celebrate in the carnival? (3 marks)
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60. What is the tone of the poem?
A. amusing
B. melancholy
C. reflective
D. depressed
61. Which stanzas have the same rhyme?
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62. In stanza 1, line 3, what does ‘jubilations’ mean?
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A B C D
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63. Look through ALL the verses of the poem, for words or expressions to match these definitions? (3 marks)
a. _______________ (v) to behave so as to try to get people to admire you
b. _______________ (adj) ordinary
c. _______________ (v) be on one’s guard
64. Which word is used to imply that a change is made very fast?
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65. What sorts of sound are heard in the carnival? (2 marks)
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66. How do the people look like?
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67. What kinds of games are played in the carnival? (2 marks)
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68. How is this poem related to the happiness study explained in Part A? (2 marks)
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For question 69-75, please refer to the article on page 5 of the reading passages booklet.
69. In line 71-72, it is said that “between 1957 and 1998, from 35% to 33%: we are twice as rich and no happier.
Try to draw TWO LINES on the graph below to illustrate the above sentence. Note that the starting points
for income (*) and happiness (+) are given. (2 marks)
$ 20000
$ 18000
$ 16000
$ 14000
$ 12000
$ 10000
$ 8000
$ 6000
$ 4000
$ 2000
$ 0
100%
90%
80%
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60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
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70. This article is mainly about the _______ society.
A. British
B. American
C. Indian
D. Canadian
71. According to paragraph 1, what should the American dream be in its original form?
___________________________________________________________________________________
72. Look at how the words below are used in the article. Decide which of the options provided is closest in
meaning and black ONE circle only. (3 marks)
73. Look at how the pronouns below are used and briefly explain what they refer to in the article. (2 marks)
74. Here is a list of alternations for a slightly different version of the article. Fill each gap with ONE word.
Refer to the paragraph and line number specified for the specific ideas. Some have been done for you as
an example. (4 marks)
Para 1 / line15-18 Although it is impossible to reach the happy lifestyles of the rich, most people still
imagine that they might have the chance to live the good life of the rich.
Para 2 / line 19-26 A survey result indicated that many university students consider becoming very
well off financially as very important. Obviously, in their mind, what _________ is
money.
Para 5 / line 37-39 When the basic human needs of the very poor people are _________ , more money
does promote their happiness.
Para 7 / line 62-64 The American society is now twice as rich when compared with 1957, and the things
people can buy have been _________ .
Para 10 / line 97-100 Contrary to popular belief, it is found that increased happiness does not _________
escalating wealth.
Line Word Meaning
36 evaporateschanges into vapour
ceases to exist
becomes unimportant
84 hedoniclucky
tough
happy
87-88 even-keeledsteady
uncertain
mature
A B C D
PRONOUN PARAGRAPH / LINE REFERENCE
it Para 2 / Line 23It refers to ______________________________
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they Para 6 / Line 49It refers to ______________________________
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75. What is the meaning of ‘diminishing returns’ and how does it relate to money and happiness? (3 marks)
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76. Which person on pages 4-5 of the reading passages booklet would you attribute the following to? Justify
your answers by quoting one sentence or phrase from the text. Some have been done for you as examples.
(14 marks)
D: “If you spend it right, you will surely feel happy!”
A: “My problems can’t be solved by the money I have!”
B: “I have lots of money, yet I don’t find a bit happiness in my life!”
C: “we are grateful for our ability to adapt to increasing wealth.”
E: “What money can buy is not happiness but problems!”
F: “See what they become, here we go!”
G: “We are going to perform the famous musical:the Beauty and the Beast Mime.”
H: “Thanks for your applause, we’ll try some more difficult feat
for your enjoyment.”
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Most likely Speaker Supporting sentence / phrase
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
John John could never remember being happy.
END OF PAPER
INSTRUCTIONS
1 Write all your answers in the Question-Answer Book.
2. DO NOT take away this booklet. It will be collected separately at the end of the examination.
3. DO NOT write any answers in this booklet, as they will not be marked.
ELITE EXAM 5-STAR SERIES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 1 – VOL.1
Reading Passages
Sample
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Part A - This is the compulsory part. Answer all questions in this part.
Read the following passage and then answer questions 1-38 on pages 2 - 6 of the Question-Answer Book.
(56 marks)
The Determinants of Happiness
[1] What exactly makes a person happy? Thisquestion has been the subject of much speculation.Commonsense hypotheses about the roots ofhappiness abound. For example, you have no doubtheard that money cannot buy happiness. But do youbelieve it? A television commercial says, “If you’vegot your health, you’ve got just about everything.”Is health indeed the key? What if you’re healthy butpoor, unemployed, and lonely? We often hear aboutthe joys of parenthood, the joys of youth, and thejoys of a simple, rural life. Are these the factors thatpromote happiness?
[2] In recent years, social scientists have begunstudying what factors are related or unrelated tohappiness. Below are the results of empirical analysisof the determinants of happiness:
[3] First are the unimportant ones:
[4] Money – There is a positive correlation betweenincome and happiness, but the association issurprisingly weak. Admittedly, being very poor canmake people unhappy, but once people ascend abovethe poverty level, there is little relation betweenincome and happiness.
[5] Age – Age and happiness are consistently foundto be unrelated. Age accounts for less than 1 percentof the variation in people’s happiness. In short,people’s average level of happiness tends to remainremarkably stable over the life span.
[6] Gender – Like age, gender accounts for less than1 percent of the variation in people’s happiness.
[7] Parenthood – Children can be a tremendoussource of joy and fulfillment, but they can also be atremendous source of headaches and hassles.Apparently, the good and bad aspects of parenthoodbalance each other out, because the evidence indicatesthat people who have children are neither more orless happy than people without children.
[8] Intelligence – Intelligence is a highly valued traitin modern society, but there is no association foundbetween IQ scores and happiness. Educationalattainment also appears to be unrelated to happiness.
[9] Physical attractiveness – Good-looking peopleenjoy a variety of advantages in comparisons tounattractive people, but the available data indicatethat the correlation between attractiveness andhappiness is negligible.
[10] Second are the somewhat important ones:
[11] Health – Good physical health would seem tobe an essential requirement for happiness, but peopleadapt to health problems. Good health may not, byitself, produce happiness, because people tend to takegood health for granted.
[12] Social activity – Humans are social animals, andpeople’s interpersonal relations do appear tocontribute to their happiness. People who aresatisfied with their friendship networks report above-average levels of happiness.
[13] Religion – People with heartfelt religiousconvictions are more likely to be happier than peoplewho characterize themselves as non-religious.
Third are the very important determinants including:
[14] Love and marriage – Romantic relationshipscan be stressful, but people consistently rate beingin love as one of the most critical ingredients ofhappiness. Although people complain a lot abouttheir marriages, the evidence indicates that maritalstatus is a key correlate of happiness.
[15] Work – Although less critical than love andmarriage, job satisfaction is strongly associated withhappiness.
[16] From the above analysis, we can see that manycommonsense notions about happiness appear to beinaccurate.
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Part B – Answer EITHER Section 1 (easier) OR Section 2 (more difficult)
Section 1Here are some stories about people when they have a lot of money, how do they deal with the money they have? Canthe money they have make them happy? Read them carefully and answer questions 39-56 on pages 7 - 10 of yourQuestion-Answer Book. (46 marks)
Can money buy happiness?
A.In 1971, Carol King struck it rich. She became the winner of what – at that time – was the largest lottery pool in GreatBritain, totaling about 3 million (roughly $33 million Hong Kong dollars). Carol was very happy. She told anyonewho would listen that she intended to spend her money. However, Carol had a difficult time coping with her newcircumstances, and became increasingly estranged from her friends. Her old friends left her, fearing that people wouldsay they went about with her because she had money. Her life became a series of drinking and shopping sprees that,ultimately, made her penniless. Carol filed for bankruptcy and eventually wound up working as a stripper and drinkingheavily.
B.The American Jack Nicholson won $314 million in the Powerrich Lottery in 2000, and hoped to make a positive impacton society by starting a charitable foundation. Jack’s granddaughter died of a drug overdose after he lavished moneyon her, and he was sued by a gambling casino for bouncing checks. Two years later, Jack had two arrests for drivingunder the influence, had been the victim of multiple burglaries, was estranged from his wife, had been arrested forattack, and had to close down his foundation. His life was much more desperate than before. Jack did not seem to findhappiness with his lottery win.
C.There were two young couples in which both the wife and husband were professors in universities. One couple, calledthe Johnsons, earned a combined income of $90,000 a year, and the other couple, the Thompsons, earned $200,000 ayear. The Johnsons were quite satisfied with their income, and felt it was adequate to their wants and needs. However,the richer Thompsons, making more than twice the money of the first couple, constantly felt strapped for cash andfrequently argued over finances. The problem is that the Thompsons want more expensive luxuries and experiences,and thus end up feeling poorer.
D.Have you heard about the fascinating story of John Robbins, the heir of Iva Robbins, the founder of the immenselysuccessful ice-cream chain Baskin - Robbins. Rather than following in his father’s business footsteps or cashing in onhis millions, John broke ranks and moved to a simple cabin in Canada. He became disillusioned with the dairy and beefindustries and wrote an influential pro-environment book called Diet for a New America. In recent times, John hasworked with his son, Ocean, to form a large environmental organization for youth, and a program to help wealthypeople use their money in meaningful ways.
E.Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Years ago he resigned from the post of being the chairman of MicrosoftCorporation and dedicated his time to philanthropy. He founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and donatedmore than HK $24 billion to support charitable projects in the areas of global health and learning. The profits of histwo books, Business@ the Speed of Thought and The Road Ahead, have been donated to charities that support the useof technology in education.
F.Can money buy happiness? The answer lies in how the money is used – for selfish spending or altruistic giving.
Money can be more than a crude material concern: it can be a vehicle for helping others and feeling good about youself.
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Section 2
Read the following poem and article and then answer questions 57-76 on pages 10-14 of the Question-Answer Book.
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Happy Carnival
Folks come for the celebration.
Carnival starts with congratulation.
Festival, fun, and jubilation.
Friends skip along in circulation!
Kids play balloons and booms.
Watch out for whooshes and zooms.
Clowns with red-nosed faces,
playing catches and chases!
Teddy bear girls and puppet show boys,
bringing lots of cheers and noise.
Joyful dads are playing with toys,
dancing mums in clown convoys!
Coconut shies and skipping game.
Monster masks with funny names.
Hide-and-seek and slapstick fun,
cops and robbers on the run.
Here come the poppers and streamers,
along with pop song screamers.
Magicians pick up sweets and cakes,
Puff! they become slimy trick snakes.
Claps and hails for the limbo dancers,
cheering rocking horse prancers.
Musicians play banjos and cellos,
Acrobats wear bells that jingle.
Parade under dazzling sunshine,
artists perform musical mime.
Let’s join some pranksters play,
leapfrog on a sun-drenched day.
Everyone shows off a painted face,
dresses up as aliens from space.
Joy and fun are commonplace,
happy carnival for the human race.
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[1] Could money buy you happiness? Most would deny it.However, when a different question is asked – “Would a littlemore money make you a little happier?” Many will nod yes.There is some connection between wealth and well-being.When they are asked how satisfied they were with 13 aspectsof their lives, including friends, house, and schooling,Americans expressed least satisfaction with “the amount ofmoney you have to live on.” What would improve their qualityof life? “More money”, was the most frequent response to aUniversity of Michigan national survey, and the more thebetter. In one Gallup Poll, one in two women, two in threemen, and four in five people earning more than $75,000reported they would like to be rich. Thus, the modernAmerican dream seems to have become life, liberty, and thepurchase of happiness. Although most people realize that theseemingly happy lifestyles of the rich are beyond their reach,they do imagine the good life that they might have when theybecome rich.
[2] A survey of nearly a quarter million university studentsindicated that those agreeing that a “very important” reasonfor their going to college was “to make more money” rosefrom one in two in 1971 to three in four in 1998. Theproportion who consider it “very important” that they become“very well off financially” rose from 39% in 1970 to 74% in1998. Among 19 listed objectives, this was number one. Itmeans that for today’s young Americans, money matters.
[3] Does being well off indeed produce happiness? Would peoplebe happier if they could live a upper-class lifestyle? Would theybe happier if they won lotteries? “Whoever said money can’tbuy happiness isn’t spending it right,” declares an ad.
[4] There is some tendency for wealthy nations to have morehappy people, for instance, the Swiss and Scandinavians aregenerally prosperous and satisfied. However, among nationswith a gross national product of more than $8,000 per person,the correlation between national wealth and well-beingevaporates.
[5] In poor countries such as India, where low income threatensbasic human needs more often, being relatively well off doespredict greater happiness. However, in affluent countries,where most can afford life’s necessities, affluence matterssurprisingly little. In the United States, Canada, and Europe,the correlation between income and personal happiness isvirtually negligible. Happiness tends to be lower among thevery poor. However, once when one reaches a comfortablelife, more money provides diminishing returns on happiness.In other words, people who go to work by bus are just ashappy as those who drive to work in their own Benz.
[6] Even very rich people are only slightly happier than theaverage American. Although they have more than enoughmoney to buy many things they don’t need and hardly care
about, 4 in 5 of the 49 super-rich people responding to a surveyagreed that “Money can increase OR decrease happiness,depending on how it is used.” Some were indeed unhappy.One fabulously wealthy man called John could neverremember being happy. One woman named Mary reportedthat money could not lesson the misery caused by herchildren’s problems.
[7] If enduring personal happiness generally does not rise withpersonal wealth, does collective happiness go upward with arising economy? Are Americans happier today than in 1940,when two out of five homes lacked a shower or bathtub, and35% of homes had no toilet. Compared with 1957, today’sAmericans are part of the doubly affluent society, with doublewhat money buy. Americans today own twice as many carsper person, eat out more than twice as often, and often enjoymicrowave ovens, big screen colour TVs, and homecomputers. So, believing that it is “very important” to be verywell-off financially and having seen their affluence go upwardlittle by little over four decades, are Americans now happier?
[8] They are not. The number of people reporting themselves“very happy” has, if anything, declined slightly between 1957and 1998, from 35% to 33%: we are twice as rich and no happier.Meanwhile, the divorce rate doubled. Teen suicide tripled.Reported violent crime nearly quadrupled. Depression rateshave soared, especially among teens and young adults.Compared with their grandparents, today’s young adults havegrown up with much wealth, slightly less happiness, and muchgreater risk of depression and assorted social pathologies. “Themore people strive for money the more numerous their problemsand the less robust their happiness,” added Richard Ryan.
[9] Our human capacity for adaptation helps explain the abovephenomenon. The influence of adaptation on happiness wasidentified by well-being researchers in the 1970s. It wassuggested that most people experience “hedonic” neutralityover the years, with only occasional spikes and valleys. Thatis, with the exception of a few potent events that temporarilyraise and lower happiness, people tend to be relatively even-keeled where happiness is concerned. Tough times bring usdown and joyous occasions are uplifting, but we quickly adaptto both. In a society in which everyone lived in 4,000-square-foot houses, people would likely be no happier than in a societyin which everyone lived in 2,000-square-foot houses. “Thanksto our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune,yesterday’s luxuries can soon become today’s necessities andtomorrow’s relics,” added David Myers.
[10] It is hard to avoid a startling conclusion: Our becomingmuch better off over the last four decades has not beenaccompanied by one iota of increased happiness. So far ashappiness goes, economic growth has provided no apparent
boost to human happiness.
Who is Happy?
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Part A (Questions 1-38; 56 marks)
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3. unconvincing 3.disconnected 4.constant 5.benefits 6.highly 7.
4. a. commonsense 8.b. abound 9.c. indeed 10.d. promote 11.
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6. a. ascend above 13.b. remain remarkably stable 14.
7. friendship / social activity, religion, love, marriage and work (in any order) 15.
8. It refers to the notion that money cannot buy happiness. 16.
9. age, gender, intelligence 17.
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14. a. People adapt to health problems. 22.b. People take good health for granted. 23.
15. a. A happy person has a network of friends. 24.b. A happy person is religious.c. A happy person is being in love. 25.d. A happy person is married.e. A happy person has a satisfactory job. 26.
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Part B – Section 1 (Questions 39-56; 46 marks)
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(ii) form a program to help wealthy people use their money in meaningful ways. 26.
b. (i) founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support charitable projects in the area of global health and learning. 27.
(ii) donated the profits of his two books to support the use of technology in education. 28.
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57. Any five of the following:Clowns ; puppetteers ; pop song singers ; magicians ; limbo dancers ; 1.horse prancers ; musicians ; acrobats ; artists 2.
58. Clowns play with the people – they play catches and chases with them. 3.
59. Any three of the following:. They skip in circle.. They play balloons and booms. 4.. They play with toys. 5.. They dance. 6.. They play games.. They paint their faces.. They dress weirdly.
Story Writers’ view of money and happiness Supporting quote from the story
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67. Any two of the following:. coconut shies. leapfrog game 17.. skipping games. hide – and – seek 18.. cops and robbers
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they become very well off financially.
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Part A - This is the compulsory part. Answer all questions in this part.
Read the following passage and then answer questions 1-38 on pages 2 - 6 of the Question-Answer Book.
(56 marks)
The Determinants of Happiness
[8] Intelligence – Intelligence is a highly valued traitin modern society, but there is no association foundbetween IQ scores and happiness. Educationalattainment also appears to be unrelated to happiness.
[9] Physical attractiveness – Good-looking peopleenjoy a variety of advantages in comparisons tounattractive people, but the available data indicatethat the correlation between attractiveness andhappiness is negligible.
[10] Second are the somewhat important ones:
[11] Health – Good physical health would seem tobe an essential requirement for happiness, but peopleadapt to health problems. Good health may not, byitself, produce happiness, because people tend to takegood health for granted.
[12] Social activity – Humans are social animals,and people’s interpersonal relations do appear tocontribute to their happiness. People who aresatisfied with their friendship networks report above-average levels of happiness.
[13] Religion – People with heartfelt religiousconvictions are more likely to be happier than peoplewho characterize themselves as non-religious.
Third are the very important determinants including:
[14] Love and marriage – Romantic relationshipscan be stressful, but people consistently rate beingin love as one of the most critical ingredients ofhappiness. Although people complain a lot abouttheir marriages, the evidence indicates that maritalstatus is a key correlate of happiness.
[15] Work – Although less critical than love andmarriage, job satisfaction is strongly associated withhappiness.
[16] From the above analysis, we can see that manycommonsense notions about happiness appear to beinaccurate.
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[1] What exactly makes a person happy? Thisquestion has been the subject of much speculation.Commonsense hypotheses about the roots ofhappiness abound. For example, you have no doubtheard that money cannot buy happiness. But do youbelieve it? A television commercial says, “If you’vegot your health, you’ve got just about everything.”Is health indeed the key? What if you’re healthy butpoor, unemployed, and lonely? We often hear aboutthe joys of parenthood, the joys of youth, and thejoys of a simple, rural life. Are these the factors thatpromote happiness?
[2] In recent years, social scientists have begunstudying what factors are related or unrelated tohappiness. Below are the results of empirical analysisof the determinants of happiness:
[3] First are the unimportant ones:
[4] Money – There is a positive correlation betweenincome and happiness, but the association issurprisingly weak. Admittedly, being very poor canmake people unhappy, but once people ascend abovethe poverty level, there is little relation betweenincome and happiness.
[5] Age – Age and happiness are consistently foundto be unrelated. Age accounts for less than 1 percentof the variation in people’s happiness. In short,people’s average level of happiness tends to remainremarkably stable over the life span.
[6] Gender – Like age, gender accounts for less than1 percent of the variation in people’s happiness.
[7] Parenthood – Children can be a tremendoussource of joy and fulfillment, but they can also be atremendous source of headaches and hassles.Apparently, the good and bad aspects of parenthoodbalance each other out, because the evidence indicatesthat people who have children are neither more orless happy than people without children.
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Part B – Answer EITHER Section 1 (easier) OR Section 2 (more difficult)
Section 1Here are some stories about people when they have a lot of money, how do they deal with the money they have? Canthe money they have make them happy? Read them carefully and answer questions 39-56 on pages 7 - 10 of yourQuestion-Answer Book. (46 marks)
Can money buy happiness?
A.In 1971, Carol King struck it rich. She became the winner of what – at that time – was the largest lottery pool in GreatBritain, totaling about 3 million (roughly $33 million Hong Kong dollars). Carol was very happy. She told anyonewho would listen that she intended to spend her money. However, Carol had a difficult time coping with her newcircumstances, and became increasingly estranged from her friends. Her old friends left her, fearing that people wouldsay they went about with her because she had money. Her life became a series of drinking and shopping sprees that,ultimately, made her penniless. Carol filed for bankruptcy and eventually wound up working as a stripper and drinkingheavily.
B.The American Jack Nicholson won $314 million in the Powerrich Lottery in 2000, and hoped to make a positive impacton society by starting a charitable foundation. Jack’s granddaughter died of a drug overdose after he lavished moneyon her, and he was sued by a gambling casino for bouncing checks. Two years later, Jack had two arrests for drivingunder the influence, had been the victim of multiple burglaries, was estranged from his wife, had been arrested forattack, and had to close down his foundation. His life was much more desperate than before. Jack did not seem to findhappiness with his lottery win.
C.There were two young couples in which both the wife and husband were professors in universities. One couple, calledthe Johnsons, earned a combined income of $90,000 a year, and the other couple, the Thompsons, earned $200,000 ayear. The Johnsons were quite satisfied with their income, and felt it was adequate to their wants and needs. However,the richer Thompsons, making more than twice the money of the first couple, constantly felt strapped for cash andfrequently argued over finances. The problem is that the Thompsons want more expensive luxuries and experiences,and thus end up feeling poorer.
D.Have you heard about the fascinating story of John Robbins, the heir of Iva Robbins, the founder of the immenselysuccessful ice-cream chain Baskin - Robbins. Rather than following in his father’s business footsteps or cashing in onhis millions, John broke ranks and moved to a simple cabin in Canada. He became disillusioned with the dairy and beefindustries and wrote an influential pro-environment book called Diet for a New America. In recent times, John hasworked with his son, Ocean, to form a large environmental organization for youth, and a program to help wealthypeople use their money in meaningful ways.
E.Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Years ago he resigned from the post of being the chairman of MicrosoftCorporation and dedicated his time to philanthropy. He founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and donatedmore than HK $24 billion to support charitable projects in the areas of global health and learning. The profits of histwo books, Business@ the Speed of Thought and The Road Ahead, have been donated to charities that support the useof technology in education.
F.Can money buy happiness? The answer lies in how the money is used – for selfish spending or altruistic giving.
Money can be more than a crude material concern: it can be a vehicle for helping others and feeling good about youself.
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Section 2
Read the following poem and article and then answer questions 57-76 on pages 10-14 of the Question-Answer Book.
(50 marks)
Happy Carnival
Folks come for the celebration,
carnival starts with congratulation.
Festival, fun, and jubilation,
friends skip along in circulation!
Kids play balloons and booms,
watch out for whooshes and zooms.
Clowns with red-nosed faces,
playing catches and chases!
Teddy bear girls and puppet show boys,
bringing lots of cheers and noise.
Joyful dads are playing with toys,
dancing mums in clown convoys!
Coconut shies and skipping game,
monster masks with funny names.
Hide-and-seek and slapstick fun,
cops and robbers on the run.
Here come the poppers and streamers,
along with pop song screamers.
Magicians pick up sweets and cakes,
Puff! they become slimy trick snakes.
Claps and hails for the limbo dancers,
cheering rocking horse prancers.
Musicians play banjos and cellos,
Acrobats wear bells that jingle.
Parade under dazzling sunshine,
artists perform musical mime.
Let’s join some pranksters play,
leapfrog on a sun-drenched day.
Everyone shows off a painted face,
dresses up as aliens from space.
Joy and fun are commonplace,
happy carnival for the human race.
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[1] Could money buy you happiness? Most would deny it.However, when a different question is asked – “Would a littlemore money make you a little happier?” Many will nod yes.There is some connection between wealth and well-being.When they are asked how satisfied they were with 13 aspectsof their lives, including friends, house, and schooling,Americans expressed least satisfaction with “the amount ofmoney you have to live on.” What would improve their qualityof life? “More money”, was the most frequent response to aUniversity of Michigan national survey, and the more thebetter. In one Gallup Poll, one in two women, two in threemen, and four in five people earning more than $75,000reported they would like to be rich. Thus, the modernAmerican dream seems to have become life, liberty, and thepurchase of happiness. Although most people realize that theseemingly happy lifestyles of the rich are beyond their reach,they do imagine the good life that they might have when theybecome rich.
[2] A survey of nearly a quarter million university studentsindicated that those agreeing that a “very important” reasonfor their going to college was “to make more money” rosefrom one in two in 1971 to three in four in 1998. Theproportion who consider it “very important” that they become“very well off financially” rose from 39% in 1970 to 74% in1998. Among 19 listed objectives, this was number one. Itmeans that for today’s young Americans, money matters.
[3] Does being well off indeed produce happiness? Would peoplebe happier if they could live a upper-class lifestyle? Would theybe happier if they won lotteries? “Whoever said money can’tbuy happiness isn’t spending it right,” declares an ad.
[4] There is some tendency for wealthy nations to have morehappy people, for instance, the Swiss and Scandinavians aregenerally prosperous and satisfied. However, among nationswith a gross national product of more than $8,000 per person,the correlation between national wealth and well-beingevaporates.
[5] In poor countries such as India, where low income threatensbasic human needs more often, being relatively well off doespredict greater happiness. However, in affluent countries,where most can afford life’s necessities, affluence matterssurprisingly little. In the United States, Canada, and Europe,the correlation between income and personal happiness isvirtually negligible. Happiness tends to be lower among thevery poor. However, once when one reaches a comfortablelife, more money provides diminishing returns on happiness.In other words, people who go to work by bus are just ashappy as those who drive to work in their own Benz.
[6] Even very rich people are only slightly happier than theaverage American. Although they have more than enoughmoney to buy many things they don’t need and hardly care
about, 4 in 5 of the 49 super-rich people responding to a surveyagreed that “Money can increase OR decrease happiness,depending on how it is used.” Some were indeed unhappy.One fabulously wealthy man called John could neverremember being happy. One woman named Mary reportedthat money could not lesson the misery caused by herchildren’s problems.
[7] If enduring personal happiness generally does not rise withpersonal wealth, does collective happiness go upward with arising economy? Are Americans happier today than in 1940,when two out of five homes lacked a shower or bathtub, and35% of homes had no toilet. Compared with 1957, today’sAmericans are part of the doubly affluent society, with doublewhat money buy. Americans today own twice as many carsper person, eat out more than twice as often, and often enjoymicrowave ovens, big screen colour TVs, and home computers.So, believing that it is “very important” to be very well-offfinancially and having seen their affluence go upward littleby little over four decades, are Americans now happier?
[8] They are not. The number of people reporting themselves“very happy” has, if anything, declined slightly between 1957and 1998, from 35% to 33%: we are twice as rich and no happier.Meanwhile, the divorce rate doubled. Teen suicide tripled.Reported violent crime nearly quadrupled. Depression rates havesoared, especially among teens and young adults. Comparedwith their grandparents, today’s young adults have grown upwith much wealth, slightly less happiness, and much greaterrisk of depression and assorted social pathologies. “The morepeople strive for money the more numerous their problems andthe less robust their happiness,” added Richard Ryan.
[9] Our human capacity for adaptation helps explain the abovephenomenon. The influence of adaptation on happiness wasidentified by well-being researchers in the 1970s. It wassuggested that most people experience “hedonic” neutralityover the years, with only occasional spikes and valleys. Thatis, with the exception of a few potent events that temporarilyraise and lower happiness, people tend to be relatively even-keeled where happiness is concerned. Tough times bring usdown and joyous occasions are uplifting, but we quickly adaptto both. In a society in which everyone lived in 4,000-square-foot houses, people would likely be no happier than in a societyin which everyone lived in 2,000-square-foot houses. “Thanksto our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune,yesterday’s luxuries can soon become today’s necessities andtomorrow’s relics,” added David Myers.
[10] It is hard to avoid a startling conclusion: Our becomingmuch better off over the last four decades has not beenaccompanied by one iota of increased happiness. So far ashappiness goes, economic growth has provided no apparent
boost to human happiness.
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