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C.E.L. Competition 2015
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
NATIONAL LEVEL
QUESTION PAPER
NAME: __________________________________________
CLASS: ___________
SCHOOL: ________________________________________
CATEGORY: ____________________
DATE: _____________________
Examiner: Marry Allen (U.K.) & James Chandler (U.S.)

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. CANDIDATES MUST USE DARK BLUE PEN TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
PAPER.
2. CANDIDATES HAVE 2 WEEKS TO FINISH THIS PAPER.
3. CANDIDATES WILL RECEIVE AN ANSWER BOOKLET WHICH CONSISTS OF
80 PAGES INCLUDING THE COVER.
4. CANDIDATES MUST WRITE DOWN YOUR OWN RESPECTIVE ANSWERS IN
THE ANSWER BOOKLET.
5. CHEATERS WILL HAVE TO BEAR ALL THE CONSEQUENCES.

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Booklet Page No. 1
Section A: Bio data
Instructions: Please fill up your bio data according to the format below.
Sign: (1) = Leave one space
Bio data
Name: _____________________________________
(1)
Class: ___________
(1)
Sex: _______________
(1)
Nationality: ______________________________
(1)
Country of Resident: ____________________________
(1)
Race: _________________________
(1)
Religion: _______________________
(1)
Email address: ________________________________
(1)
Do you speak English at home? How many hours per day?
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Section B: Descriptive Essay
Instructions: Write an essay about yourself not less than 150 words.
Must Include:
Personal Information
Where you live?
Your Ambitions
Your Dream
Your favourite food
Your best friend
Relevant information
How do you feel being one of the qualifiers
of C.E.L. English National Level 2015?
You will receive up to 10 marks for the language of the writing
and another 10 marks for the quality of your writing.

Section C: Descriptive Essay 2

Instructions:
(a) Write an essay about your best friend in 150 words.
You will receive up to 10 marks for the language of the writing
and another 10 marks for the quality of your writing.

(b) Ask at least 10 students in your school how they feel about your best
friend without the acknowledgement of your best friend by establishing
your own questions. Thereafter, write down their respective responses in
full sentence.
(20%)

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Section D: Creativity Challenge
Instructions: Create an artificial intelligence and describe it.
Must Include:
Name of your creation (3)
Why you create it? (2)
5 abilities/functions enclosed with examples (10)
Projection of your creation (2)
Are you going to publicize your wonderful creation to the society?
Why? Why not? (3)
Establish 10 scenarios which prove that your creation has helped
the society in certain circumstances.
Description for your creation in 100 words. (20)

(b) Ask 10 of your friends to write a review about your creation not less
than 30 words.
(30%)
Total Marks: 70%
Section E: Picture Observation & High Order Thinking Skills
Instructions: Observe the images and the short texts below each image meticulously and
answer the following questions. You will receive up to 5 marks for each question.
Images
Short Texts
Chinese paramedics in Wuhan
tend to a man who had collapsed
in public. The man exhibited
symptoms of SARS (Tuesday,
April 29, 2003) Source: China
Photo (Reuters)

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A man plays piano while others
loot one of Saddam Hussein's
former palaces in Baghdad
(Saturday, May 3, 2003) Source:
Alexander Zemlianichenko (AP)

The Benitez family celebrates

Mother's Day at their house in the
Marianao
neighborhood
in
Havana, Cuba. Cuban families
celebrate Mother's Day on the
second Sunday of May by
gathering at home (Sunday May
11, 2003) Source: Christobal
Herrera (AP)

A U.S. Naval Academy plebe is

pulled through the obstacle
course by classmates during the
injured-shipmate phase of the Sea
Trails exercises at the U.S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Md. Sea
Trials, a rigorous one-day event
which challenges the plebes'
physical and mental stamina,
completes the first of four years at
the academy (Tuesday, May 13,
2003) Source: Jim Watson (AFP)

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A lion exhausted by the heat lies
in his cage in Calcutta Zoo. India's
summer temperatures frequently
reach 113 degrees (Wednesday,
May
14,
2003)
Source: Deshakalyan Chowdhury
(AFP)

A masked couple shares a

moment before departure at a
train station in Beijing. Nearly
half of the world's cases of SARS
have occurred in China, where
official statistics show that 92
people have died and more than
2,001 have been infected by the
disease.
Source:Guing
Niu
(Reuters)
A young fan wearing a mask for
protection from the SARS virus
reaches out with a glove as Kansas
City Royals right fielder Michael
Tucker misses a pop fly by
Toronto Blue Jays' Vernon Wells
during fourth inning AL action in
Toronto Source: Hans Deryk
(Toronto Star/AP)

A woman waves to her husband over

a video camera on Monday April 28
in Singapore's Alexandra Hospital.
The hospital launched the virtual
visit, an alternative to the present no
visitor policy for patients, even ones
like this one who do not have SARS.
The rule was imposed by the Ministry
of Health for all public hospitals in a
bid to contain the SARS virus.
Source: Wong Maye-e (AP)

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1.
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4.
5.

Why are we looking at this?

What are we looking for?
Is this image in its original state (i.e., no manipulation or "doctoring")?
What is the main idea or argument the image expresses?
What was the creator trying to do here? (i.e., narrate, explain, describe,
persuade---or some combination?)
6. Do you like this image? Why?
7. How would you describe the artist's technique?
8. What conventions govern this image? How do they contribute to or detract
from its ability to convey its message?
9. What is the main idea behind this image?
10. What does this image show?
11. What is the place to which your attention is most immediately drawn?
12. What is the smallest detail that says the most?
13. What motivates the creator here?
14. What adjectives could be used to best describe the precise details of the
objects in the image?
15. What do we need to know to read the image successfully?
16. What are the criteria you are---or should be---using to evaluate this image?
17. What are the image's motifs, themes, plot, and characters?

Section F: Novel Reaction

Instructions: Write a novel reaction based on one of the English novels
you have read recently. You must answer all the questions that are
drafted below. You will receive up to 100 marks for this section.
INTRODUCTION:

State fully the title and author (check all words and spelling)
When was it published? Where? Why?
What other novels by the same author rank with it?
Name and spell correctly the chief characters.
State what you consider to be its chief themes.
PLOT:

What conflict drove the story on?

Identify the climax.
Was it the resolution of this conflict?
How do sub-plots relate to the main one?
Do they amplify, detail, enhance it?
Do these sub-plots parallel or foreshadow the main action?

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POINT OF VIEW

How is the novel presented? Who narrates it?

Rate its success.
CHARACTER

How well developed are the principals?

List adjectives to describe them.
What do you recognise as the driving force, the motivation of these principal
characters?
SETTING

Give historical, geographical, social details.

Is the setting an important feature even a player in the action? How/Why?
STYLE

Identify and evaluate this novel for its prose, method of narration, ease of
reading.
THEMES/ PURPOSE/ CRITIQUE

Is it relevant to our lives today? How?

List principal scenes and show how they reveal character, or are turning
points in the action.

Section G: Essay 2
Instruction: Write 3 essays in 300 words based on the topics given below
respectively.

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1. Treasure Hunt
Imagine that you and your friends found a very old map which shows where treasure
is hidden. You
decided to
hunt for the treasure. Tell
story about your adventure
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using the information found in the map below. Add your own details to make your
story as interesting as possible.

2. Imagine a lot of the people on earth have already deceased due to the deadly virus
break out and the government and all the police forces have already falling apart; But
in the meantime, a gang of terrorists is trying to rule this world and eliminate all the
scientists. You as a scientist with 3 partners of yours have to figure out how to save
the rest of the peoples lives on earth by inventing a vaccine (cure) in the nick of the
time.
3. My Next-door Neighbour
1(b) Create a treasure hunt map based on your own creativity.

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Section H: Reading Comprehension

Instructions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the

following questions.
As we walked back to the longhouse, Chabok, who was in front of me,
suddenly stopped on the track and raised his blowpipe, quickly inserting
a dart into the mouthpiece and packing the end with a small twist of raw
cotton. To one side and above him, about twelve meters away, a squirrel
was scampering on a branch. I wanted to see Chabok bring it down with
a dart but at the same time I had an almost uncontrollable urge to cry
out and frighten the animal away. It seemed such a small squirrel.
Chabok aimed his blowpipe, and I felt myself holding my breath until he
shot. 'Thip!' went the dart as it left the end of the tube, and I didn't see it
go. The squirrel stayed on the branch unmoved, and I was sure that he
had missed and called to him, "You've missed it! You've missed!" and he
began to run forward shouting, "I haven't, Master! I haven't! I haven't!"
And as he ran, the squirrel toppled over like a rag doll and hit the ground
with a soft thud. It was still alive when Chabok picked it up - he poisoned
splinter sticking right through its neck - but it was quite paralyzed and
unable to move. It died some minutes later. On the way back to the
longhouse Chabok sang happily for the first time since leaving the River
Yai and in the evening, everyone had a small piece of squirrel meat. My
own piece, no more than a mouthful, tasted like stringy rabbit.
The Temiar blowpipe is normally some two meters long and made from
one single length of bamboo. It has a slender inner tube inside the outer
covering so that one length warps against the other and it always
remains true. From it they shoot a small dart, a splinter of wood some
twenty or twenty-five centimeters in length; a pith cone at one end, the
other sharpened end tipped with poison. Most aborigines are extremely
accurate with a blowpipe up to a range of nine to ten meters, though for

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