2 Text A The world's first 'underground cinema" In September 1940, four intrepid boys and their dog set out on an escapade near the town of Montignac in France. The boys had always been intrigued by local folklore about a secret tunnel running under the Vezere River, which would lead to hidden treasure buried deep in the woods. As they walked through the forest, their dog. Robot, ran ahead towards a deep depression in the ground, at the bottom of which was a small opening. When the boys saw this, they were 5 convinced that the hole was related to the legend. They removed stones from around the edges with their penknives, then slid cautiously into a narrow, almost vertical shaft which was home to a multitude of bats. The passage took the youngsters fifteen metres down to a dark, underground chamber littered with stalagmites. The descent was terrifying,' recalled Jacques Marsal, who was just fourteen at the time, the 10 youngest of the boys. Once inside the chamber, they used an oil lantern to look around them. To their surprise, the walls and ceiling of the cave were covered with spectacular paintings. Marsal described them as a procession of animals, larger than life, that seemed to be moving'. The images were brilliantly multicoloured in reds, blacks, browns and ochres. Mesmerized by their discovery, they ventured 15 further into the cave. By then, the lantern light was fading and the boys realised they needed to return quickly to the surface. Determined to keep their discovery to themselves, the boys swore an oath of secrecy. They met up the following morning. This time they used a rope, and one by one, they slid into the darkness, plummeting to the lowest level of the cave. 20 By the third day, they could keep their secret no longer. Each of them took five friends to see the cave, charging a mere forty-cent admission fee. Marsal defined this as 'the first commercial exploitation of the cave'. Once word was out, the news spread like wildfire, and soon the entire village was lining up to peer at the astonishing pre-historic paintings of our Cro-Magnon ancestors. To accommodate the crowds and to make access easier, the boys removed even 25 more stones. The cave opened its doors officially in 1948. Almost immediately, thousands of tourists flocked to visit to what is now known as the world-famous Lascaux Cave.6 Look at lines 18-20, Give one word which means "promise". [1] 7 Why do you think Marsal says this is the first commercial exploitation of the cave? 11] 8 Look at this phrase: the news spread like wildfire (line 23). (a) What literary technique is used in the phrase above? 111 (b) Why is this an appropriate description of the way the news of the discovery travelled? [1] 9 Why is the writer's use of flocked appropriate in line 277 [11 10 Give two features of a newspaper report used in Text A. 121