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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Friday 23 May 2025
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutes) Paper
reference 1EN0/01
English Language
PAPER 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing
You must have: Total Marks
Reading Text Insert (enclosed)
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer all questions in Section A and ONE in Section B.
You should spend about 1 hour on Section A.
•• You should spend about 45 minutes on Section B.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Plan your answers in the lined spaces/planning box provided. Plans will not be
marked unless no other response is provided
Information
•• The total mark for this paper is 64.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• written
Questions labelled with an asterisk (*) are ones where the quality of your
communication will be assessed
– you should take particular care on these questions with your spelling, punctuation
and grammar, as well as the clarity of expression.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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Reading
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Read the text in the Reading Text Insert provided and answer ALL questions.
You should spend about 1 hour on this section.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1 From lines 1–4, identify a word or phrase which shows that Bobby is going
somewhere that is dangerous.
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(Total for Question 1 = 1 mark)
2 Read this extract.
… somehow, it became clear to us that, if God left him alive, and if the war ever
came to an end, he and I should belong to one another. When he went he kissed
me, I kissed him back again, most lovingly, with many tears.
Ah! parting. And so Bobby got into a carriage and drove away, and then
I wept as one that would not be comforted.
From the extract, give two ways in which the narrator shows how much she
loves Bobby.
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
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(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)
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One night, one hot night, having prayed even more heartily and tearfully, I had
lain down to sleep. The windows were left open, that all possible air might reach
me from the still and scented garden below. Thinking of Bobby, I had fallen asleep,
and he is still mistily in my head, when I seem to wake. The room is full of clear
light, but it is not morning: it is only the moon looking right in. I can see my own
ghostly figure sitting up in bed, reflected in the looking‑glass opposite. I listen:
surely I heard some noise: yes—certainly, there can be no doubt of it—someone is
knocking loudly at the hall‑door. At first I fall into a deadly fear; then reason comes
to my aid. If it were a robber, or person with evil intent, would he knock so openly
and clamorously*? At worst it is some drunken sailor; at best, it is a messenger with
news of our dear ones. At this thought I instantly spring out of bed and hurrying on
whatever garments come most quickly to hand, I open my door, and fly down the
passages, into which the moon is looking with her ghostly smile.
As I near the door I meet our old butler.
‘Who can it be, Stephens?’ I ask, trembling with excitement and fear.
How does the writer use language and structure to show what the narrator
experiences on the night that Bobby returns home?
Support your views with reference to the text.
(6)
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Candidate surname Other names
Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Friday 23 May 2025
Morning (Time: 1 hour 45 minutes) Paper
reference 1EN0/01
English Language
PAPER 1: Fiction and Imaginative Writing
You must have: Total Marks
Reading Text Insert (enclosed)
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer all questions in Section A and ONE in Section B.
You should spend about 1 hour on Section A.
•• You should spend about 45 minutes on Section B.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Plan your answers in the lined spaces/planning box provided. Plans will not be
marked unless no other response is provided
Information
•• The total mark for this paper is 64.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
• written
Questions labelled with an asterisk (*) are ones where the quality of your
communication will be assessed
– you should take particular care on these questions with your spelling, punctuation
and grammar, as well as the clarity of expression.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
Turn over
P76048A
©2025 Pearson Education Ltd.
Y:1/1/1/
*P76048A0120*
,DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
*P76048A0220*
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2
, SECTION A
Reading
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Read the text in the Reading Text Insert provided and answer ALL questions.
You should spend about 1 hour on this section.
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
1 From lines 1–4, identify a word or phrase which shows that Bobby is going
somewhere that is dangerous.
. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............................................................................................................................................ ................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(Total for Question 1 = 1 mark)
2 Read this extract.
… somehow, it became clear to us that, if God left him alive, and if the war ever
came to an end, he and I should belong to one another. When he went he kissed
me, I kissed him back again, most lovingly, with many tears.
Ah! parting. And so Bobby got into a carriage and drove away, and then
I wept as one that would not be comforted.
From the extract, give two ways in which the narrator shows how much she
loves Bobby.
You may use your own words or quotations from the text.
1 . . . . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................................................................................................................... ................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(Total for Question 2 = 2 marks)
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, 3 Read this extract.
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One night, one hot night, having prayed even more heartily and tearfully, I had
lain down to sleep. The windows were left open, that all possible air might reach
me from the still and scented garden below. Thinking of Bobby, I had fallen asleep,
and he is still mistily in my head, when I seem to wake. The room is full of clear
light, but it is not morning: it is only the moon looking right in. I can see my own
ghostly figure sitting up in bed, reflected in the looking‑glass opposite. I listen:
surely I heard some noise: yes—certainly, there can be no doubt of it—someone is
knocking loudly at the hall‑door. At first I fall into a deadly fear; then reason comes
to my aid. If it were a robber, or person with evil intent, would he knock so openly
and clamorously*? At worst it is some drunken sailor; at best, it is a messenger with
news of our dear ones. At this thought I instantly spring out of bed and hurrying on
whatever garments come most quickly to hand, I open my door, and fly down the
passages, into which the moon is looking with her ghostly smile.
As I near the door I meet our old butler.
‘Who can it be, Stephens?’ I ask, trembling with excitement and fear.
How does the writer use language and structure to show what the narrator
experiences on the night that Bobby returns home?
Support your views with reference to the text.
(6)
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