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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSE : GRAMMAR 1
COURSE CODE : TSL041
EXAMINATION : APRIL 2007
TIME : 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. This question paper consists of five (5) parts PART A (40 Questions)
PART B (40 Questions)
PART C (40 Questions)
PART D (30 Questions)
PART E (10 Questions)

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3. Answer ALL questions in this booklet. Start each answer on a new page.

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PART A (40 MARKS)

Instructions: Read TEXTS 1 - 3 carefully. Fill in the blanks with the simple present tense,
simple past tense, present progressive tense or past progressive tense of the
verbs in brackets. Also, where necessary, make sure the verb agrees with
the subject of the sentence.

TEXT1

Asha Gill can get quite vocal when it concerns subjects close to her heart but put a

travel itinerary in front of her, and a sort of inward calmness (1)

(take) hold of her.

"I was told to be a traveller, not a tourist," she said of her travelling experience, "but

you can't judge how certain people choose to travel, as long as you

(2) (experience) the world." She also

(3) (love) to chat forever on all the places she's been to as

host of Six Degrees, and she's been to a lot.

Still, the beauty (4) (have) a few favourites, among

them (5) (be) Taipei.

"Taipei is like a manga city. There's something very post-war and post-industrial

about it, with its low buildings and greyness, it (6) (look) like

it's been flattened by a nuclear bomb then rebuilt. "But it gets its colour from its people

though. Taiwanese (7) (be) mad! They're like Italians, but

louder! And there's something very Malaysian about it. Being someone infatuated by food,

you could go out on the street at any time of the night and get something to eat, it (8)

(be) great!" While there, Asha found herself in the starring

role of a real life Taiwanese horror film.

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"We stayed in a hotel in Taiwan, and it's an amazing hotel, but only tourists stay

there, no Taiwanese stay there, and we soon (9) (find out)

why."

"While we (10) (stay) there, we kept hearing loud

noises coming from the room upstairs, and I (11) (not, like)

complaining, but the noise was getting too much, so I called the receptionist to ask her to tell

the people upstairs to tone it down a bit.

"She told me there (12) (be) no one staying in the

room upstairs for the duration that we'd been at the hotel. When I told our host in Taiwan,

Sean, this, he told me that the grounds on which the hotel was built on used to be a

communist killing ground." Not believing him, Asha (13)

(go) down to check out the 'artwork' on the hotel's doorways and arches, only to discover

that they (14) (not, be) artwork at all. They were in fact,

religious phrases aimed at cleansing the spirits from the hotel.

"Then I understood why when Taiwanese people asked me where I

(15) (stay), and I told them and they'd laugh out loud and tell me

'be careful'!" she laughed.

Extracted from Malay Mail

(15 marks)

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TEXT 2

If you are given the freedom to move around, sit anywhere you want in the office,

work from anywhere, even in the cafeteria, would you abuse that privilege? How, as an

employer, would you be able to monitor what members of your staff

(1) (do)?

Ever since they (2) (move) into their new

headquarters in Shah Alam, Selangor, in July 2006, DiGi Telecommunications employees

have not had fixed seating, and there (3) (be) no cubicles,

not even for the bosses. The office (4) (adopt) an open

concept whereby tables are laid out across an open area. Employees can choose to work at

a workstation or on their own notebooks. They can even plonk themselves in any of the

other levels or departments. With wireless technology, communication

(5) (be) no problem.

"It (6) (be) a chicken-and-egg situation," said Adzhar

Ibrahim, director of human resource development. "(7) (you,

trust) people first and hope that they return the trust, or (8)

(you, say), you prove to me that you're trustworthy and I will trust you? I think our philosophy

is that, 'Hey, you (9) (be) a decent person and we will trust

you.' If it becomes a problem, then we'll deal with it. But surprisingly, I

(10) (not, think) we've had any issues of people running

away or not working. You can't hide. Where are you going to hide? And if you need to read

the newspaper, you can go ahead and read it. But on the other hand, if you

(11) (read) the newspaper the whole day, everybody

will see. So there is some peer pressure."

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Adzhar related an incident whereby a group of senior management staff visited the

building, and one of the employees (12) (sit) at a desk

reading a newspaper. "We walked by and she (13)

(not, even look up)!" he laughed. "That was so remarkable, because in other organisations,

even if you deserve a rest after working long hours, the moment you see your boss, you will

quickly get back to work. The assumption is that if you (14)

(read) the newspaper, you have a good reason for doing so. You don't have to explain."

He admitted that the system is not perfect, and there will always be a few who will

take advantage of it. He said the decision was whether to have rules that

(15) (cater) to a small minority but inconvenience everyone

else, or to have rules for the majority and deal with the minority on a case-by-case basis.

Extracted from The Star

(15 marks)

TEXT 3

Japanese romantics will have the chance to hear some truly flowery language with the

help of a playful gadget purported to express the feelings of plants. Through the voice of a

small doll, the device will share what the plant is supposedly "thinking" when a person

strokes it.

The "Hanakotoba", or "Communication Flower", (1)

(consist) of a small rod topped with a fairy figurine that can be put inside a potted plant or

vase of water. When the owner (2) (touch) the stem or leaves,

a small electric current (3) (pass) from the rod through a

wire to a small doll.

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"What a beautiful day!" the doll, wearing a green vest and cone hat, will say once the

flower is touched, or "Let's stay friends forever!" Hanakotoba (4)

(have) up to 200 different phrases.

The gadget, made by Japanese toymaker E-revolution, (5) (be)

the latest creation of Masahiko Kajita, who (6) (score) a

smash hit in 2002 with "Bowlingual" - a dog collar said to interpret canine barking. "I

(7) (create) translators for cats and dogs, which

(8) (be) a big success among men, so I

(9) (search) for a similar success among females, and

since women (10) (love) flowers, I decided to work on them,"

he said.

Extracted from The Star

(10 marks)

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PART B (40 MARKS)

Section 1

Instructions: Read TEXTS 4 and 5 carefully. Fill in the blanks with "a," "an," "the," or"-

TEXT 4

Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. "At our

school," said A, "we had a ghost's footmark on the staircase."

" What was it like?"

"Oh, very unconvincing. Just the shape of a shoe, with a square toe, if I remember

right. The staircase was a stone one. I never heard any story about (1) thing.

That seems odd, when you come to think of it. Why didn't somebody invent one, I wonder?"

"You never can tell with little boys. They have a mythology of their own. There's

(2) subject for you, by the way - The Folklore of Private Schools'.

"Yes; the crop is rather scanty, though. I imagine, if you were to investigate

(3) cycle of ghost stories, for instance, which (4) boys at private

schools tell each other, they would all turn out to be highly-compressed versions of stories

out of (5) books."

"Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's, and so on, would be extensively drawn

upon."

"No doubt: they weren't born or thought of in my time. Let's see. I wonder if I can

remember (6) staple ones that I was told. First, there was the house with a

room in which a series of people insisted on passing a night; and each of them in the

morning was found kneeling in a corner, and had just time to say, 'I've seen it,' and died."

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"Wasn't that (7) house in Berkeley Square?"

"I dare say it was. Then there was the man who heard a noise in the passage at

(8) night, opened his door, and saw someone crawling towards him on all fours

with his eye hanging out on his cheek. There was besides, let me think - Yes! the room

where a man was found dead in bed with a horseshoe mark on his forehead, and the floor

under the bed was covered with (9) marks of horseshoes also; I don't know

why. Also there was the lady who, on locking her bedroom door in a strange house, heard a

thin voice among the bed-curtains say, 'Now we're shut in for (10) night.' None

of those had any explanation or sequel. I wonder if they go on still, those stories."

Extracted from A School Story

(10 marks)

TEXT 5

According to one study, virtually all women (97%) and most men (68%) admit to

having food cravings. For women, chocolate and other sweet treats top (1)

list, while men often yearn for juicy steaks or burgers with (2) works.

After menopause, women's cravings may become more like men's. "It's tempting to

say that (3) hormonal changes are to blame. But there also could be

(4) group of older women who grew up during the Depression when more

value was placed on meat and protein foods, so who knows?" says Dr Marcia Pelchat, a

food-cravings researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia.

Hormonal swings seem to be at least partly responsible for (5) women's

cravings. Levels of both oestrogen and the feel-good brain chemical serotonin drop when

women are premenstrual. And there's (6) possibility that lollies, pasta and

other carbohydrate foods can boost serotonin, making you feel better.
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Hormonal changes may also explain cravings for onions or other pregnancy-related

hankerings, but so far, there's no solid proof.

Could what we crave be something our body needs? Experts are pretty certain that

missing nutrients are not to blame for (7) vast majority of cravings. True,

chocolate provides the body with magnesium. But sad to say, if our bodies really were crying

out for magnesium, we would be longing for big green salads, which provide a lot more than

(8) small amount found in a chocolate bar.

Cravings also have very little to do with hunger. You might be stuffed full after a

dinner party, but if the dessert looks delicious, you're not going to turn it down. "If you're

hungry, you don't really care what you eat. (9) unfavoured bowl of porridge will

do," says Dr Allen Levine, director of the Minnesota Obesity Centre.

Instead of satisfying hunger, cravings reward us and give us pleasure.

(10) researchers are just beginning to understand the brain chemistry at work

here. They have found that the creamy, rich taste of chocolate can give you a rush that's

more subdued but not totally at odds - biochemically speaking - from what happens in the

brain when drug addicts inject heroin or sniff cocaine.

Extracted from Reader's Digest

(10 marks)

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Section 2

Instructions: Read TEXT 6 carefully. Fill in the blanks with "many," "much," "a few,"
"several," or "some."

TEXT 6

Remember when the biggest animals in the world seemed in danger of vanishing? It

was during the 1960s and 70s, when commercial hunting had made (1)

of the great whale species so scarce it looked as if the

world would be robbed of an entire dimension of wonder.

It wasn't. If you visit the 'Au'au Channel between the Hawaiian islands of Maui and

Lana'i in winter today, you'll find the ocean grown chunky with titans. Humpback whales that

weigh as (2) as 45 tons (41 metric tons) rise and spout

everywhere, roll in spirals, slap the surface with fins or tail flukes. They leap with their tails

almost clearing the surface while chins reach 40 feet (12 meters) into the sky, then fall back

in a KER-WHOMP! that carries for (3) miles.

Reduced to (4) thousand worldwide, humpbacks

began to rebound after an international ban on killing them went into effect in the 1960s. A

soon-to-be completed three-year census dubbed SPLASH, the largest, most intensive

humpback whale survey ever undertaken, could put the North Pacific population alone at

more than 10,000 and possibly as (5) as 25,000.

Half to two-thirds of those whales gather around Hawaii from late November into

May, especially here in the channel and other parts of the 1,370-square-mile (3,550 square

kilometers) Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. For every

humpback drawing cheers from whale-watching boats as it raises a splash in the sunshine,

(6) more lie below.

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(7) observers from the Whale Trust, a Maui-based

foundation for research and education, have found that (8)

of the submerged males are calling out the humpback's famous song, filling the seas with

strange and lovely incantations. (9) of the females are

tending new calves as they pile on dozens of pounds daily and, in a year, double their length

on their mothers' rich milk. What no one fully grasped until recently was how

(10) other submerged humpbacks are not cruising, not singing

or nursing, but simply hanging out.

Extracted from National Geographic Magazine

(10 marks)

Instructions: Read TEXT 7 carefully and underline the correct answer.

TEXT 7

(1. Many / Much / Any ) reasons have been advanced to account for nonreporting of

crime. (2. A great deal of / Enough / Some ) victims of rape and assault fear the

embarrassment of public disclosure and interrogation by the police. Increasingly, evidence

reveals that (3. a few / much / any ) violence occurs between persons who know each

other — spouses, lovers, relatives —but the passions of the moment take on a different

character when the victim is asked to testify against a family member. Another reason for

nonreporting is that lower socioeconomic groups fear police involvement. In (4. some / a

great deal of / a few ) neighborhoods, residents believe that the arrival of the law for one

purpose may result in the discovery of (5. a few / any / a great deal of) other illicit activities,

such as welfare fraud, housing code violations, or the presence of persons on probation or

parole. In (6. many / a little / much ) of these same places the level of police protection

has been minimal in the past, and residents feel that they will get (7. little / any / enough)

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assistance. Finally, the value of property lost by larceny, robbery, or burglary may not be

worth the effort of a police investigation. (8. Many / A few / A great deal o f ) citizens are

deterred from reporting a crime by unwillingness to become 'involved,' go to the station

house to fill out (9. a lot of / many / a little ) papers, perhaps go to court, or to appear at a

police lineup. All these aspects of the criminal process may result in the loss of (10.

several / much / a great deal o f ) workdays and in the expense of travel and child care.

Even then, the stolen item may go unrecovered. As these examples suggest, multitudes of

people feel that it is rational not to report criminal incidents because the costs outweigh the

gains.

Extracted from Strategies for Reading and Study Skills)

(10 marks)

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PART C (40 MARKS)

Instructions: Read TEXTS 8 and 9 carefully. Write the correct form of the nouns in
brackets.

TEXT 8

There once was a sheikh who dreamed big. His realm, on the shores of the Persian

Gulf, was a sleepy, sun-scorched (1) (village) occupied by pearl

divers, (2) (fisherman), and traders who docked their

ramshackle dhows and fishing boats along a narrow creek that snaked through

(3) (town). But where others saw only a brackish creek, this

sheikh, Rashid bin Saeed al Maktoum, saw a highway to the world.

One day in 1959, he borrowed many (4) (million) of

dollars from his oil-rich (5) (neighbor), Kuwait, to dredge the

creek until it was wide and deep enough for (6) (ship). He built

(7) (wharf) and warehouses and planned for roads and schools

and (8) (home). Some thought he was mad, others just

mistaken, but Sheikh Rashid believed in the power of new beginnings. Sometimes at dawn,

with his young son, Mohammed, by his side, he'd walk the empty waterfront and paint his

(9) (dream) in the (10) (air) with words

and gestures. And it was, in the end, as he said. He built it, and they came.

His (11) (son), Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al

Maktoum, now rules Dubai, and around that (12) (creek) has built

towering dreams of his own, transforming the sunrise (13) (vision)

of his father into a floodlit, air-conditioned, skyscrapered fantasy world of a million

(14) (people). With its Manhattan-style

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(15) (skyline), world-class port, and colossal, duty-free shopping

malls, little Dubai now attracts more (16) (tourist) than the

whole of India, more shipping (17) (vessel) than Singapore,

and more foreign capital than many European countries. The people of 150

(18) (nation) have moved here to live and work. Dubai has

even built man-made (19) (island)—some in the shape of palm

trees—to accommodate the wealthiest of them. Its economic growth rate, 16 percent, is

nearly double that of China. Construction cranes punctuate the skyline like exclamation

(20) (point).

Extracted from National Geographic Maqazine

(20 marks)

TEXT 9

Researchers have unearthed fossil (1) (evidence) of a

135-million-year-old "sea monster" they're calling Godzilla. A large skull of the (2)

(animal) was found in southern Argentina in an area that was

once (3) (part) of the Pacific Ocean.

Named Dakosaurus andiniensis, the (4) (creature) is an

entirely new species of ancient (5) (crocodile). It had a head

like a carnivorous (6) (dinosaur) and a tail like a fish. With its

massive jaws and serrated (7) (tooth), it preyed on other marine

(8) (reptile). Totally unique among marine (9)

(crocodile), "it is one of the most evolved (10)

(member) of the crocodilian family and also one of the most

bizarre," said Diego Pol, a paleontologist at Ohio State University in Columbus, who served

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on the research (11) (team). The (12)

(research), led by Zulma Gasparini, a paleontologist at Argentina's Universidad Nacional de

La Plata, was funded by the National Geographic Society.

The creature's almost intact, 135-million-year-old (13)

(skull) was found in 1996 in Argentina's Neuquen Basin, a (14)

(region) that was once a deep tropical (15) (bay) of the Pacific

Ocean. Prior to the find, researchers had only sketchy fossil (16)

(evidence) of the fearsome sea monster. They have now established that the giant

(17) (animal) belongs to the crocodyliforms, which include today's

crocodiles and their extinct (18) (relative). Marine crocs were

abundant during the Jurassic period some 200 million to 145 million years ago. At that time

they were found worldwide.

"This animal forms a very distinct (19) (lineage) that appears

early on in the evolutionary history of crocodiles—invading the sea and showing outstanding

adaptation to the marine (20) (environment)," Pol said.

Extracted from National Geographic Magazine

(20 marks)

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PART D (30 MARKS)

Instructions: Read TEXTS 10 and 11 carefully. There are fifteen errors in each text.
Identify the errors in verb tenses, articles, subject-verb agreement and
nouns. Underline the error and write the correct answer above it, as shown
in the example in Text 10.

TEXT 10

e.g. take

The beginning stages of language learning usually takes place in the classroom and are

thus molded by the teacher, who determine the textbook and the method and creates the

classroom atmosphere. It is important to remember, however, that you should not rely

totally on your teacher to determine a course of your learning. Without your active input

and participation, even the most outstanding teacher will not be optimally effective. You

know yourself best; therefore, you should use self-knowledge to determine how you will

learn. It is a good ideas to discuss your goals and preferred ways of learning with the

teacher.

Your teacher's most important role was to model how native speakers communicate.

You should therefore constantly analyze your teacher's speeches. Listen for pat phrases

and note when and how they are used. Notice how your teacher reacts to what you say.

Did he or she understand? Laugh? Why?

Your teacher is also a important source of information about how the language is

structured, what words and phrases meant, and when they should be used. Check your

understanding of an structure by making up sentences and asking your teacher if they are

correct. Ask him or her to explain differences in meaning or usage between two words or

sentences. Make sure that you understood the corrections in your homework,

compositions, and tests.

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Your teacher should also be able to provide advise on how to study a foreign language.

See if his or her suggestions work for you. If they aren't, try to develop your own study

technique.

The teacher also helps set the pace of your learning. If you had trouble keeping up, try

to improve your study skills and seek extra help. If you find the pace too slow, ask your

teacher for additional materials to reinforce and extend a basic information. In either case,

let your teacher know that the pace are not right for you.

Extracted from How To Be A More Successful Language Learner

(15 marks)

TEXT 11

When was the last time you send someone a letter by regular mail? Thanks to the

speed and ease of using the Internet, sending e-mail - rather than mailing letters using a

postal system (now often called 'snail mail') - are the preferred means of communication for

many people.

In a survey of 2,000 young peoples conducted by the e-mail provider MSN Hotmail,

around half say they sent thank-you notes by e-mail, not post. In addition to sending more

personal e-mail, young people entering the working world today find themselves sending

and replying to hundreds of business related e-mails every week.

However, many of these same young people seems to be unaware of some basic rules

when it comes to sending e-mail at work. Most of the people who responded to a survey

said they don't check their spelling or punctuation before hitting 'send.' Even more

surprising was that one in twenty of the survey's respondent said they sometimes end

e-mails to their boss with the words 'love and kisses'. While this is fine for personal

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messages to friends and loved ones, it is normally considered inappropriate workplace

etiquettes.

The main reason for this use of informal language in workplace e-mail is that a lot of

young people have always communicated with others on the Internet - especially using e-

mail - in an relaxed and friendly manner. For many, online communication outside of work

involve talking with others in chat rooms, posting on message boards, and sending e-mail to

friends-all for fun.

Another reason is that some young people now entering the workforce were unfamiliar

with how to write formal correspondences, because they never had to write a formal letter

before. They had no training in how to compose a basic business letter, and are unaware

of a style and language that should, and should not, be used.

Extracted from Active Skills For Reading

(15 marks)

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PART E (10 MARKS)

Instructions: Construct a sentence using each of the following words. Do not make any
changes, to the given words. Each sentence must consist of ten or more
words.

1. am discussing (verb)

2. was not (verb)

3. did not attend (verb)

4. adores (verb)

5. a few (determiner)

6. equipment (noun)

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7. train (noun)

8. was hiding (verb)

9. much (determiner)

10. carpet (noun)

(10 marks)

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