ACSI 2024 Y5 Final Exam Promos SL_Paper 1 (Stdn)

2 Write a guided analysis ofone of the following texts. 1. The following text, a South African comic strip explores the lives and perspectives of characters navigating contemporary issues. - How do text and image work together to portray the generation gap?

3 2. This following article is adapted from National Geographic Online. Myths about wolves, busted by experts 5 10 15 20 25 30 Stories about wolves—some true, many not—have enlivened folktal es for thousands of years, whether it’s the Big Bad Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood or legends of werewolves hunting under the full moon. While the va riations change over time—few modern children’s books warn of wolves eating gra ndmothers— the stories inevitably paint the world's largest canine with a polarized brush. In many cases, the deep-rooted mythology of wolves as villains can lead to broader misunderstandings. National Geographic asked wolf researchers to dispel some of the most common wolf myths. Myth 1: Wolves kill for fun While no wolf researcher claims to understand the feelings of a n individual wild animal, the idea that wolves kill for fun—often referred to as surplus killing—isn’t based on reality. Wolves live on the fringe of nutritional deficiency, not starvi ng, but also not layering on fat, according to Ken Mills, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s wolf biologist. “They’re lean marathoners. They have to cover a lot of ground to find vulnerable prey and then catch it with their mouths, … pul l it down, and kill it. That is not easy,” Mills says. What’s more, hunting large prey such as elk and moose is just plain dangerous. In Yellowstone, where humans cannot hunt wolves, injuries sustaine d during big game hunts are the second leading cause of death for the carniv ores, says Kira Cassidy, a researcher with the Yellowstone Wolf Project, one of the longest, most detailed wolf studies in the world. In Mills’ 23 years working with wolves in Wyoming, Michigan, On tario, and New Mexico, he has only investigated a couple of incidents of wolve s killing more animals than they could eat. Myth 2: Wolves are ecosystem saviors The concept of trophic cascade has persisted since scientists reintroduced wolves into Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s. The basic idea is that when wolves no longer inhabit a landscape, ungulates such as deer, elk, and moose become abundant and damage meadows, mountainsides, and wetland areas. Yet recent research shows the story just isn’t so simple. Ecosy stems like Yellowstone changed so fundamentall y after the removal of wolves (and grizzly A young male wolf nicknamed Gray Mane, walks ahead of its pack in search of prey in the Canadian Arctic in 2018. This hunt lasted almost two days and covered some 65 miles. Photograph By Ronan Donovan, National Geographic Image Collection.

4 35 40 45 50 bears) that, at least in some places, it could not return to it s before state just by bringing these predators back, accordi