Candidate's Name Class Index No. BUKIT PANJANG GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL MID-YEAR EXAMINATION 2006 SECONDARY ONE EXPRESS ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1127 PAPER 1 Date: 28 April 2006 Duration: } Rour 45 minutes rime: 68eeh “gala INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: . Answer both Section One and Section Two. 2. Write your name, class and register number on the writing p2per provided. 3. fand in Secth ne and Section Two separately. 4. The total mark for this paper is 60. This paper consists of 2 pages inchiding this cover sheet ER GHS REO-YEAR EXAMINATION 2006 [PUR OVERT www.misskoh.comSection One [20 marks} «i cunipaslion On one of the following topics. {You are advised to spend no mare than 60 minutes on this Part of the paper. * Your composition should be at least 250 words Jong. * You should draw 2 slashes ) after the 250" word. * You should write the number of the topic you have chosen in the margin, 1. The Loss 2 Begin your story with the opening words: “By the time ! headed home, | was really confused...” 3. Write about an occasion when you stood Up against a bully in school, 4 Describe the sights and sounds you will experionce in a local shopping centre on a Sunday. 5. Describe your favourite place in the school and explain why you like the plas Sectlon Two [30 marks} Begin your answer on a fresh page. * Your letter shoutd be at feast 180 words tong. * You shoutd draw 2 slashes (/) after the 180" word. Every year until now, your uncle has sent you a book for your present. This year, he has Sent you a cheque for $100 and asked you to wiite to fel ton know how you are going to spend the money. Henco write a letter to your uncis expressing your gratitude. In your fetter, you must Mention the following points: * Thank bim for his generosity and iol him why his uifi is especially hviptul to you at this point in time... * Inform him how you intend to spend tho im different items or activities. * For each item of expenditure, explain cleatly why you choose to spend the Money in that manner. igfuliy cir two or three ey mean At least one paragraph should be devoted to each Poin! and it must be well-developed Write your letter in clear, formal language and use an appropriate tone ~ End of Paper ~ 2 www.misskoh.comCandidats’s Wame: ee _Ciasss_ Index wo § ij BUKIT PANJANG GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL. MID-YEAR EXAMINATION 2006 SECONDARY ONE EXPRESS ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1127/2 PAPER TWO Date — :27 April 2006 Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes Time 1 1130h to 1310h INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. Write your name, class and index number in the spaces provided at the top of this page and on tho writing paper. 2. Atlanswers are to bo writton neatly on ihe wilting paper provided. 3. Hand in your answers separately as follows ; (i) Questions 1- 6 of Soction A and Section 8 (i) Questions 7 and 8 of Section A Fer Section A, leave a line after each answer. Number all your answers neatly in the left margin of the paper. a 6. The total mark is 50. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES: ‘The number of marks is given in [ J at the end of each question or part question. www.misskoh.com This paper consists of 4 pages inchading this cover page. [Turn overSection A; Comprehansion (40 marks) ead the following passage carelully and then answer all the questions. You are recommended fo answer them in the order sal. Mistakes in speling, punctuation and grammar may be penalized in any part of your answers. Note: When a question asks you to answer in your own words, YOU MU: WORDS IN THE PASSAGE in your answer, IST NOF COPY THE ir Iwas stoned by four boys and! "ta mugging because they didn't want to take anything of 2 iiss a siraightforward case, I could see afterwards, of bullying. Four larger boys came for ‘a smaller one who was on his own. Rode oOk the short-cut which runs down a natrow path between two fruit orchards, ‘There are eS on each side, tal enough to protect the trees from wind, from stealing trut. ‘The sun sekiom reaches down between the hedges, ite gloomy and damp, and the weeds under the hedges grow yellow and straggly as they strugglo up towards the fight %Tdon’t tke walking there, but i's ten minutes quicker than if | go round by the ring road, 5 The four youths were behind, jostling and ‘shoving each other against the spiky hawthorn as. (rey walked. They had shavon heads, high laced DMs, black blazers and mean ramon eyes They were trom Roschill School, Thoy were heading back to Rosehill Estate. Sc eihen the first stone spun past my ear | didn't tum, though | did put on a bit of speed. The ars Stone hit mo on the back of the neck and they were closer than I'd realised, At that point, there were three things f could do, I could run tke hell, or I could take no notice, or | could stop and confront them, ‘| favoured the last. | was good'at diplomacy. 1 gave a fal on iat the st communication’. Four dinner hour debating club : “Britain's diplomatic role in the east.we People camo, and two moro jeerad tough the window, but Mr Fowler cana in for the fst bit of my talk and said it was well prepared Imilting to myself that ! was alaid. Fear chows. They'd 7 Besides, if | ran like hell, I'd be ‘adi m this timo, they'd be waiting another day And another know. Even if | managed to evade thei day, it might be worse, & But when I looked back for the conlrontation, they had gone. The long path was empty. irom inside the orchard. They must have 2 Then, | heard stifled giggles and running fect are way ahead, darting through a gap in the Pushed through tha dense hedge. Suddenly they w hawthorn. first-year would have been a help. Bullies ers don't walk atong public rights-of- Or a dear little old lady his path. in case they're 10 I fooked behind. There was nobody. Even a don't atlack when there's a witness. Ora teacher. But teach way. They go home in batlered cars, or on new ten-speed racers. coming home irom the Shops. But dear little old ladies don't walk down tt mugged. cisicn hail Of Shatp Mlints flew down from a twee overhead, and | know Id made the wrong decision. It was too late tor confrontation or escape. | just hkl to kcop walking along the damp Path towards where they wore lurking. Perhaps t should have negotiated, 1 should have apologized to them for being me. Bul you can't epologize to halt-sesn faces fliting behing the green leaves. www.misskoh.com 15 20 30 3512 Lfeached the end of the path without making contact. (was out on to the culde-cac which {kads dow to the estate. | was safe, surrounded by humanity, living people behind wincows, who could see me. 13 That's exactly when they pounced, trom behind a fuchsia bush. And they dragged me down to the pavement. They took off my glasses, 1 grovelied in the ditt for my Spectacles but two grabbed ma from bohind and pulled down the sleeves of my blazer, imprisoning my arms. Maybe it was a mugging? They did want something. The third throw my schcol-bag over'a bush into a garden, white the fourth took a knife, and touched my breast pocket with the shining tp. Quick as a flash, ho sit through the stitching of the yellow, embroidered crest, and ripped through the school badge so that it hung tattered like a scab. Curiously, one of them pickad up my glasses ftom the gutter and handed them back tome. Then they were off, they were gone. 14 | was ashamed to find myself trembling for the rest of the walk home, Humiliated, | had mismanaged it. | should have apologized right from the beginning, 15 __ Listen boys, 1 know it's not your fault you're who you are and I'm me. You want my school badge? Cenainly, please have it. 16 Logically, rationally, | knew that | was their superior. And if | knew it, they knew it tow. That was why they wanted to atlack. They recognised my grey, wool blazer. It wasn't their fault. t's nobody's fault that they must jive on the council estate and go to Rosehill, any more than its my fault that my parents are well-educated, well paid, and want me to be the same. No doubi, those boys wera just as intelligent as mo, but with all the wrong motivations for fife. So, it was nobody's fault. Even so, i coukin't blame anybody but mys: ell for matking the first wrong decision. (From The War Orphan by Rachel Anderson) From paragraphs 1 to 3: Ja Using clues taken from paragraph one, explain the meaning of (i) stoned (ina 1), (inj (ii) an ambush (line 3). [tm} (0 the fruit from the orchard? [1m] ib Why were pedestrians unable ath “yellow and straggly” (line 16)? izinj ce Why were the weeds on tne From paraginphs 410 7: 2a What was it about the four boys’ appearance that might have alarmed the writer? 2b Why did the writes choose not to run away? em) From paragraphs 6 to 10: a “They go home in battered cas, or on new len-speed racers” (ine 31). What does this comment tell you about the type af teachers at the writer's school? fom] 3b Whaat is ironic about the writer’s observation on “title old tadies* (ine 32)? len} From paragraphs 11 to 13: 4 (i) Suggest one reason why the gang took off the writer's spectacies. (im) fm] {il) Suggest one reason why a gang member gave the spectactes back to him. www.misskoh.com 40 45 50From paragraphs 14 to18: 5 Towhat exactly do the folowing words refer? {i) ® (line 54) [im) Rosehill (line 86) {tm} (iil) the same (line 57) fem} From the whole passage : © What was "the first wrong decision’ (jine 58) that the writer made? fim) Ficase answer Questions 7 and 8 on afresh sheet of writing paper. 7 Fer each of the following words, give one word or short phrase of not more than Seven words that has the same meaning 2s the word in the passage. [5m] (i) small Gine 1) (iv) evade (line 23) (il) mugging (line 2) &) stifled ine 26) Gi) confront {line 18) [15m] 8 Summary: Imagine you wore one of the gang members. Writo an account of how you first tormented and then attacked the writer. Draw your facts trom anywhere in the passage. Your account should be in continuous wailing and should not exceed 120 words, including the 6 words given below te help you begin. Begin your account as follows: We followed him down the path... Section B: Cloze Passge (19 marks) Centinus siting the answer for this section on the same writing paper as Questions 1-6 of Section A hum in the background. My eching of tyres, and then a loud bang Asisat (4) in ty work the sound of traffic was Justa (2) _ Concentration was (3)_ py a persistent horn (4)__ by the sere ' knew at once that an accident had (5)__. feead to see what had happened but my view was blocked. Being realiy (6}___, 1 went to the kitchen 10.899 # | Could get a botter view. All could sae trom above the tee (7. was 4 termes ee road divider. The tox driver was talking on the mobile phone. Al the opposite block of fa:s, poople were (8).__ streaming out of their fats and (9)__ at the end of {he corridors nearest the road. | could see them chatting amongst themselves Since my view was (10). blocked, 1 gave up trying to look and returned to my work, www.misskoh.comBukit Panjang Goverament Mid Year Examination 2006 Secondary One Express English Language 11272 : Paper 2. © 5 la(i) a Stoned: to be thfown small pieces of rocks . 1a (ii) ‘An atnbush: a suddea attack made from a concealed position 1b) a ‘The hedges on each side of the narrow path betweesi two fruit orchards are degse, thus preventing pedestrians from stealing fruits. Ie) “The weeds are deprived of suntight as they aye covered up by the taishy hedges and they acod to stiggle towards the sunlight, resulting in “yellow and strapaly” weeds 2a) “The four boys looked lke gangsters, having shaven heads, high laced DM’s, black blazers and jnean, narrow ees, 2b) He preferred to:confiont them biciuse he-yas goed at mediation and did et want to admit Uist he was fiightened or fo show them that he was aftaid, for fear thal they might continue to bully, his, 3a) Fhe teachers belong w Hee muddle oF upper cians and they aiu eetier sie 3b) 4.allle refers i the hrasc “hatte ofd ladies ging ev! the wony ty le young peonte but the indicating, that the old ladies az¢ vounp, as et es! |b AQ) ‘The gang did not want the writer to recognize theia avi) “The gang member might feei bad having attacked him and felt that the least they could do ‘was to return the spectacles back to the waiter. 50) The word "it" refers to the fact that the wri s superior as compared to then www.misskoh.comsii) ‘The word “Roschill” refers to the school that the gang of boys went to. oot ESIORRIN Sree pene ence setts tetany 5G) cme ‘The words “the samme” refers tothe expectations thatthe writes parents have onthe writer; 10 have the same upbringing, lifestyle and education that they Went through, 6). i E The writer should not have been lazy and took a short cut i) minor ‘ 2 ‘7Gi) to assault with:théifitention of robbery 7Git) to face in hosbiity Or defiance/challenge > ‘Tliv) avoidlstay away. Tw) solv faint F< 8) : . e + Hit the boy with stones in a dark and humid narrow path between two fruit orchards ° + Bumped andnudged cach other to intimidate the boy Pushed through the thick hicdges to’coriceat from the boy ai + Made sure'that no oné was'around. 309 iF A hail of sharp iints. i Section B 1) About 2)Soht 3) disrupted tistarbed 4) Caused 5) Happened 6) Curious/nosy TTop 8) Stowly 9) Lingering 30) partially/almost www.misskoh.com