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MADHRASATHUL AHMADHIYYA
FIRST TERM TEST 2008 GRADE 10
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Paper 2 Reading and Writing
0510/02 2 hours
Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required.

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Name, Index Number, Class and Register number. Write in dark blue or black pen in the spaces provided on the Question Paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, and glue or correction fluid. Answer all questions. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. Dictionaries are not allowed.

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Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya

First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 1
Read the following leaflet on Moulex IRON and answer the questions that follow

Filling the reservoir

E suits etc.
It is possible to use this iron in a vertical position so that you can remove creases from clothes on coathangers or from curtains. Turning the thermostat control and the steam button to maximum, hold the iron in a vertical position close to the fabric but without touching it. Hold down the pressing button for a maximum of one second. The steam produced is not always visible but is still able to remove creases. Important: Hold the iron at a sufficient distance from silk and wool to avoid all risk of scorching. Do not attempt to remove creases from an item of clothing that is being worn, always use a coathanger.

Your iron is designed to function using tap water. However, it will last longer if you use distilled water. Always unplug the iron before filling the reservoir. Always empty the reservoir after use.

Temperature and steam control

Your Moulex iron has two buttons which control the intensity of heat produced by the iron. You can, therefore, adjust the temperature of the iron and the amount of steam being given off depending upon the type of fabric being ironed. Tum the steam control to the desired intensity. Tum the thermostat control to the desired temperature. Important: if your iron produces droplets of water instead of giving off steam, your temperature control is set too low.

F Auto-clean
In order that your iron does not become furred up, Moulex have integrated an auto-clean system and we advice you to use it very regulary (1-2 times per month). Tum the steam control to the off position. Fill the reservoir and turn the thermostat control to maximum. As soon as the indicator light goes out, unplug the iron and, holding it over the sink, turn the steam control to auto-clean. Any calcium deposits will be washed out by the steam. Continue the procedure until the reservoir is empty.

C Spray button
This button activates a jet of cold water which allows you to iron out any unintentional creases. Press the button for one second.

Pressing button

This button activates a super shot of steam which momentarily gives you an additional 40g of steam, when needed. Important: Do not use this more than five successive times.

Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya

First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 1 a. What sort of water are you advised to use in Moulex iron? . [1]

b.

What factor makes you decide on the quantity of steam to use? .

[1]

c.

What should you do if your iron starts to drip water? .

[1]

d.

How can you control temperature? .

[1]

e.

Why is the spray button used? .

[1]

f.

How exactly the unintentional creases can be cleared? .

[1 ]

g.

What precaution you should take while ironing delicate clothes? .

[1]

h.

What happens to your iron if you do not clean it? . [Total: 8]

[1]

Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya

First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 2
Read the following Article on Migratory Beekeeping and answer the questions that follow

Of the 2,000 commercial beekeepers in the United States about half migrate. This pays off in two ways. Moving north in the summer and south in the winter lets bees work a longer blooming season, making more honey and money for their keepers. Second, beekeepers can carry their hives to farmers who need bees to pollinate their crops. Every spring a migratory beekeeper in California may move up to 160 million bees to flowering fields in Minnesota and every winter his family may haul the hives back to California, where farmers will rent the bees to pollinate almond and cherry tree. Migratory beekeeping is nothing new. The ancient Egyptians moved clay hives, probably on rafts, down the Nile to follow the bloom and nectar flow as it moved toward Cairo. In the 1880s North American beekeepers experimented with the same idea, moving bees on barges along the Mississippi and on waterways in Florida, but their lighter, wooden hives kept falling into the water. Other keepers tried the railroad and horse drawn wagons, but that didnt prove practical. Not until the 1920s when cars and trucks become affordable and roads improved, did migratory beekeeping begin to catch on. For the Californian beekeeper, the pollination season begins in February. At this time, the beehives are in particular demand by farmers who have almond groves; they need two hives an acre. By early March it is time to move the bees. It can take up to seven nights to pack the 4,000 or so hives that a beekeeper may own. These are not moved in the middle of the day because too many of bees would end up homeless. But at night, the hives are stacked onto wooden pallets, back-to-back in sets of four, and lifted onto a truck. It is not necessary to wear gloves or a beekeepers veil because the hives are not being opened and the bees should remain relatively quiet. Just in case some are still lively, bees can be pacified with a few puffs of smoke blown into each hives narrow entrance. To encourage the bees to produce as much honey as possible during this period, the beekeepers open the hives and stack extra boxes called super on top. These temporary hive extensions contain frames of empty comb for the bees to fill with honey. In the brood chamber below, the bees will stash honey to eat later. To prevent the queen from crawling up to the top and laying eggs, a screen can be inserted between the brood chamber and the supers. Three weeks later the honey can be gathered. Foul smelling chemicals are often used to irritate the bees and drive them down into the hives bottom boxes, leaving the honey-filled supers more or less bee tree. These can then be pulled off the hive. They are heavy with honey and may weigh up to 90 pounds each. The supers are taken to a warehouse. In the extracting room, the frames are lifted out and lowered into an uncapped where rotating blades shave away the wax that covers each cell. The uncapped frames are put in a carousel that sits on the bottom of a large stainless steel drum. The carousel is filled to capacity with 72 frames. A switch is flipped and the frames begin to whirl at 300 revolutions per minute; centrifugal force throws the honey out of the combs. Finally the honey is poured into barrels for shipment. Adapted from Americas Beekeepers: Hives for Hire by Alan Mairson, National Geographic.

Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya

First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 2
1. Commercial beekeeping in United states is profitable in both ways. Give two evidences.

[2]

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2. Why North American beekeepers were not as successful as Egyptians in migrating hives?

[1]

3.

When did the migratory beekeeping began to become popular and how?

[2]

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4. What creates the demand for beehives?

[1]

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5. Why do the beekeepers migrate the beehives at night? Give two reasons.

[2]

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6. How do the beekeepers make the bees produce maximum honey?

[1]

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7. According to the map, between which two states the majority of the beekeepers migrate?

[1]

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8. List four important stages involved in the honey making process from beehives to the shipment.

[4]

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[Total: 14]

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First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 3
Read the following information about a couple Mr.Thomas Vaughan Miller and Mrs. Ada Lovelace Miller who are eager to apply for a job which has been advertised. After finishing her O levels in 2004, Ada completed a one year Diploma Course in Food Specialty institute, in Sri Lanka where she currently resides with her husband in Colombo, at 29 Labeview building, Park lane. Their telephone number is 0112198594. Her personal number is 777416415. Recently she created her e-mail address as ada_miller@yahoo.co.uk . she would turn 28 next month on 16 th. The ISD number of Sri Lankais 00941. Ada left Excelsior English School, Namibia, after passing IGCSE examinations achieving 5 passes including Home Science. Whole she was at school; she was a Girl Guide and the captain of Eurald House. Her husband has interest in reading English books but she shows more interest in cooking. Having been taught a lot by her grand mother, she enjoys trying out new dishes. Bothe couple listing to music apart from Mr.Thomas past time of painting. She also watches cookery demonstration in the television. If she gets the job it will be her first and she intends to fly as quickly as possible to Namibia, and be with her parents in Mariental at 148.F Block, courtauld Averue before the training begins on the 21st of April.

Ada has seen the following notice, and has got down an application Form. Paradise Hotel (privet) Limited Requires as soon as possible Junior Chef To undertake general duties in the kitchen

No prior experience required Age between 18-30 years Must be willing to work long hours Salary negotiable The right candidate would receive a months training from 21st April 20th May Interested personal apply to: The Human Resource Manager Paradise Hotels (Private) Limited Boulevard Road Namibia

(CLOLSING DATE: 30TH MARCH 2007) Imagine you are Ada, and complete the application form on the opposite page.
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Exercise: 3

Application Form Paradise Hotel (private) Limited Boulevard, Namibia

Post Applied for .................................................... Section: A Fill name and address in block letters Surname:.................................................... Initial(s) Spouse name:..... DOB:. Present Address: .... Permanent Address:.. Contact Number:...................... E-mail Address....

Section B Education Qualifications: .. .. Positions of Responsibility at school: ... .. Hobbies and Interest: Art Reading Music Watching sports on TV

If appointed, could you start work immediately? YES /NO (Delete as appropriate) Pay Expected: .. ..

Section C In the space below write one sentence of between 12-20 words explaining how you gained your culinary skills and any other qualification you have obtained. .......................... . .

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First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 4
Read the article on paper recycling

Paper is different from other waste produce

Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by

because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees. Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to the environment when it is discarded. Governments have encourage waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recycling technologies that have paved the way for even greater utilization of used fibre. As a result, industrys use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming year. B To achieve the benefits of recycling, the

hand by people trained to recognize various types of paper. This is necessary because some types of paper can only be made from particular kind of recycled fibre The sorted paper then has to be repulped or mixed with water and broken down into its individual fibres. This mixture is called stock and may contain a wide variety of contaminating materials, particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which has had little sorting. Various machineries used to remove other materials from the stock. After passing through the repulping process, the fibers from printed waste paper are gray in colour because the printing ink has soaked into the individual fibers. This recycled material can only be used in products where the grey colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but if the grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be de-inked. Before the recycled fibres can be made into paper they must be refined or treated in such a way that they bond together. E Most paper products must contain some virgin

community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture. There also needs to be support from the community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items. C There are technical limitations to the amount of

fibre as well as recycled fibres an unlike glass, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is downcycled which means that a product made from recycled paper is of an inferior quality to the original paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves some of the energy, labour and capital that goes into producing virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to collect the waste paper from the community and to process it to produce new paper.

paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of form of books and permanent records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. the paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also incur the collection cost.

Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya

First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 4 You are going to deliver a speech in your school assembly on paper recycling. Prepare some notes to use on the basis of your speech - make your points on each heading.

Reasons for declining virgin fibre usage. . .

Publics responsibility in paper recycling . . Technical limitation in recycling process . . . .

8 marks

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First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 5
Read the following article about fact and Reading fiction Then write a summary of the suggested explanations as to why students find reading difficult. Your summary should be about 100 words. You should use your own words as far as possible. You will be given up to 6 marks for the content of your summary and up to 4 marks for the style and accuracy of your language.

The notion that reading is one of the most important key to educational success is agreed by all: newspaper critics, devoted teachers and parents. But what is happening to standards? Employers are critical: It is a great surprise and disappointment to us to find that our young employees are so hopelessly deficient in their command of English The latest panic was prompted by a very limited study by a group of educational psychologists using a dubious test. No wonder it was castigated for intellectual sloppiness. Yet there are many detailed research studies that illuminate reading problems. In May it was shown that the more lead, aluminum or zinc in a childs body as tested by hair or saliva tests, the lower the reading scores. Did that get widely reported? Other research focused on left- and right-handedness. Fascinatingly, the researchers found that there is a connection between reading skills and skill with the use of the left or right hands: children with either a very strong right- or a very strong left-hand skill are likely to have poorer reading skills. Did that get widely reported? There are serious doubts about whether the present curriculum is helping effective reading, but it is not contrary to much printed panic, because of too little teaching of phonics. It is because we stop developing reading skills except in the teaching of literature. We are extraordinarily good at teaching fiction. Reading for learning is something different but equally important. Fiction, marvelous as it is as and art form is a poor training for the reading of non-narrative. The story carries the reader along and stimulates the understanding of the text without too much conscious effort. When those pupil-readers hit a text explaining facts or arguments, they expect the same thing to work and are disappointed and baffled when it does not. This is partly due to sentence length and structure: the average sentence in fiction (according to one US computer analysis) is as low as 11 words, whereas in learned and scientific writing sentences average 21 words. They are often of a different structure to those in stories, with far more subordinate clauses. The paragraphs are also different: fiction keeps rolling. Non-fiction writing has ideas followed by arguments, followed by examples, before returning to a second argument. Seeing the structure of a non-narrative paragraph is to see the pattern of the argument and reading fiction will not help a pupil develop this skill. What is certain is that our pupils will not have access to higher education without specific reading tuition is non-narrative. From primary to secondary, all our curriculum plans require a clear thread of reading tuition. Most reading for learning is non-fiction; our best higher reading teaching is through literature. It is this, mismatch between need and offer that is at the heart of the difficulties of learning to read and reading to learn. The reading aspect of the curriculum starts will but needs development and broadening during a pupils education.
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Summary Writing

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First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Exercise: 6 Write an article for a teenage magazine persuading young people to take care of their
environment and offering ideas and advice on how to do this. The comments below may give you some idea, but you are free to use any ideas of your own. Your article should be about 200 words long.

8 marks We

need play ground, so we cut the trees

to time o n e I hav cycle. just re r e k c i ch qu rything u m It is row eve to th away.

e could b le c y ic B r short used fo avel tr distance

nt e am ou h t e c u Red recycle of litter, . waste

18 marks

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First Term Test - 2008

Grade: 10

IGCSE English - Paper 2

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Article Writing

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Exercise: 7
Is participating in community development programmes necessary for students? People have mixed opinion about this issue. Write a letter to the school magazine to put forward your views on this issue. Here are some comments from your friends.

I felt happy and proud to clean the litter on beach. Its beautiful now.

we do not get time to complete our project work and assignments I am enriched with the practical experience Expectations and dreams have to be fulfilled, my exams are fast approaching. Why should we bother? Elders are there to take care of society.

Your letter should be about 150-200 words long The comments above may give you some ideas, but you are free to use any ideas of your own. You will receive up to 9 marks for the content of your letter and up to 9 marks for the style and accuracy of your language. Letter Writing

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