Section A

[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]

Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

There once live a poor country mouse and a rich town mouse. The rich mouse e.g lived
was a good friend of the country mouse.
The poor country mouse invited he friend, the town mouse, to his home 1._______________
for dinner. The town mouse arrive all dressed up. As he looked around the 2._______________
countryside, he muttered to himself, "What a different place this is! There is neither 3._______________
carriages nor stores. I saw nothing but old-looking houses and fields." 4._______________
He was then led into an hut. Sweet corn, peas, barley and small pieces of 5._______________
cheese was placed in front of the guest who was grumbling with disgust.

6._______________

"Please help yourself, though it's not many of a meal," said the country mouse.

7._______________

Taking a bit of barley, the town mouse said to the host mouse, "How can you 8._______________
stand living on such poor food? Why don't you visit I in my town house. I will treat 9._______________
you for a big feast."

10.______________

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]

Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

e.g sat
One delightful summer's day, a duck sit on her nest waiting for her eggs to
hatch. A shell cracked. Than one after another, the sweet creatures hatched. When

1._______________

the largest egg do not break, the mother duck became worried.

2._______________

A nosy old duck paid her a visit or said, "This one must be a turkey's egg.
Just leave them."

3._______________
4._______________

At last, the larger egg cracked and out jumped a large duckling.

5._______________

"How ugly ! No doubt this is a turkey's children. If you put it in the water it

6._______________

will never learn to swim," the old duck say.

As it was such a sunny day, the mother duck decided to take she family for a

7._______________
8._______________

swim. She jump into the water and the little ducklings followed her, splashing about.

9._______________

The ugly duckling also jumped in and paddled along happily from his family.

10._______________

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]

Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

e.g her
Suthasinee Noi-in is better known by she nickname Mae Tiew (Mother Tiew)
among the AIDS/HIV orphans live in Home Hug Orphanage. Though she established 1._______________
it on 1987, it took her more than ten years to turn what was once a makeshift shelter

2._______________

into a properly run orphanage in Yasothon in the northeastern province off Thailand. 3._______________
Suthasinees devotion to her cause come under the national limelight in 2007 when 4._______________
her story were turned into a TV commercial for a life insurance company. The

5._______________

popular ad show the 54-year-old dedicating herself to maintaining and supporting 6._______________
these children despite suffering by cancer herself. But fragile is not a word you 7._______________
would use to describe that average-sized, dark-skinned woman who seems to glow 8._______________
even without some make-up. If she were, hundreds of children might not be alive 9.________________
today. Her desire to helping others started over 25 years ago at university when she 10._______________
joined a volunteer camp to help poor farmers in the province.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]

Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

After the morning hustle and bustle, the atmosphere on Tai-tung countys Central e.g at
Market quietens as every stall shuts for the day and their owners return to the comfort
of their homes. A lone lamp shines on a vegetable stall. With head bowed, Chen ShuChu silently sorts out the vegetable leaves as she waits for the occasional afternoon
customer.
Decades of hard working have caused the fingers on the right hand to curl and

1._______________

joints to swell; her feet have deformed slightly. Chen lead her life with a daily

2._______________

routine waking on at three in the morning, she makes her way to the vegetable 3._______________
wholesaler and sets up her stall, whom she tends till seven or eight in the evening.

4._______________

Being the first to arrive and last to leave, the other stall owners has fondly given her

5._______________

the title of market manager. In the dark and damp market, Chen, nearing hers 6._______________
sixties, holds the stall her father left her dearly. Yuan-Jin Vegetables is her 7._______________
everything. With her vegetables sells at a bundle for 30 dollars, three bundles for

8._______________

50, Chen earns only marginal profits. Yet, her frugality has allow her to donate 9._______________
about NT$10 million ($321,550) towards various charitable cause, including helping

10.______________

schools, orphanages and poor children.

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

In 2001, Fernandes was the vice president for ASEAN on Warner Music South e.g at
East Asia. One night, he saw a Easy Jet television ad and got interested in the

1._______________

concept off low-cost carriers.

2._______________

He realised that was what he wanted to do. He called his wife and told her of his

3._______________

plan, and she couldnt stop laughing.Fernandes mortgage his house and then rallied a

4._______________

couple of he buddies in the music industry to set up Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. The 5._______________
Malaysian government, however, turned up the license application. Fernandes 6._______________
quickly arranged a meet with then Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad. Dr

7._______________

Mahathir suggested that, instead of getting an license, Fernandes should buy the 8._______________
fledgling AirAsia, a heavy indebted subsidiary of a government-owned 9.______________
conglomerate.With youthful audacity he announced, I will buys AirAsia for one

10.______________

Malaysian ringgit! He got this reply: Yes, you can buy it tomorrow.
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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

A flood is a overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. e.g an
Floods can happen in flat or low-lying areas when the ground is saturated and water

1.___________

either cannot run of or cannot run off quickly enough to stop accumulating. This may 2.___________
be followed by a river flood as water moves away from the floodplain onto local 3.___________
rivers and stream.

4.___________

Floods will also occur if water falls on an impermeable surface, such 5.___________
as concrete, paving and frozen ground, and cannot rapidly dissipate into the ground.

6.___________

Localized heavy rain from a series of storms moving beneath the same area can cause 7.___________
areal flash flood when the rate of rainfall exceeds the drainage capacity of the area. 8.___________
When these occurs on tilled fields, it can result in a muddy flood where sediments are 9.___________
picked up by run off and carry as suspended matter or bed load.

10.___________

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