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Section A: Reading Read this passage from Momo by Michael Ende and then answer the questions in the question paper.

On the southern outskirts of the city, where the fields began and the houses became shabbier and more tumbledown, the ruins of a small amphitheatre lay hidden in a clump of pine trees. It had never been a grand place, even in the old days, just a place of entertainment for poor folk. When Momo arrived on the scene, the ruined amphitheatre had been almost 5 forgotten. The strange, round building was really known only to the folk who lived in the immediate neighbourhood. They grazed their goats there. Their children played ball on what had once been the central stage. One day, however, word went around that someone had moved into the ruins. It was a child – a girl, most likely, though this was hard to say because she 10 wore such funny clothes. The newcomer’s name was Momo. Aside from being rather odd, Momo’s personal appearance might well have shocked anyone who set store by looking clean and tidy. She was so small and thin that, with the best will in the world, no one could have told her age. Her unruly mop of jet-black hair looked as if it had never seen a comb or a pair 15 of scissors. She had very big, beautiful eyes as black as her hair, and feet of almost the same colour, for she nearly always went around barefoot. Although she sometimes wore shoes in the wintertime, the only shoes she had weren’t a pair, and besides, they were far too big for her. This was because Momo owned nothing apart from what she had found lying around or had been given. 20 Her ankle-length dress was a mass of patches of different colours, and over it she wore a man’s jacket, also far too big for her, with the sleeves turned up at the wrist. Momo had decided against cutting them off because she wisely reflected that she was still growing, and goodness only knew if she would ever 25 find another jacket as useful as this one, with all its many pockets. Beneath the grassy stage of the ruined amphitheatre, half choked with rubble, were some underground chambers which could be reached by way of a hole in the outer wall, and this was where Momo had set up house. One afternoon, a group of men and women from the neighbourhood turned up and tried to question her. Momo feared that they had come to chase her away, but she 30 soon saw that they meant well. Being poor like herself, they knew how hard life could be.

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‘So,’ said one of the men, ‘you like it here, do you?’ Momo nodded. 35

‘And you want to stay here?’

‘Yes, very much.’ ‘Won’t you be missed, though?’ ‘No.’ ‘I mean, shouldn’t you go home?’ ‘This is my home,’ Momo said promptly. Glossary: Set store by – thought it was important

Haiku − about Momo Food: leftover scraps

Home: dark, dim, damp, dirty place

Living: rough. Enough?

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