JANGAN BUKA KERTAS SOALAN INI SEHINGGA DIBERITAHU

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1 SULIT 1119/2 Bahasa Inggeris Kertas jam 15 minit NO. KAD PENGENALAN/ ANGKA GILIRAN/ - - BAHASA INGGERIS Kertas 2 / Set C Dua jam lima belas minit JANGAN BUKA KERTAS SOALAN INI SEHINGGA DIBERITAHU Arahan 1. Kertas soalan ini mengandungi 33 soalan. 2. Jawab semua soalan. For Examiner s Use Section Total Marks 3. Bulatkan jawapan anda untuk Bahagian A di dalam kertas jawapan di halaman 17. A 15 B 10 C Untuk Bahagian B, Bahagian C dan Bahagian D, tuliskan jawapan anda di ruang yang disediakan di dalam kertas soalan ini. D 20 Total 70 Instructions 1. This question paper consists of 33 questions. 2. Answer all questions. 3. Circle your answers for Section A on the answer sheet on page Write your answers for Section B, Section C and Section D in the space provided in this question paper.

2 Section A [15 marks] [Time suggested: 25 minutes] According to a new study, soft drinks may push up your blood pressure and add to the risk of obesity, diabetes and tooth decay. So, make soft drinks a special treat or at least practice portion control. 1 The most suitable title for the above text is A B C D Diabetes May Be Caused by Soft Drinks Soft Drinks Cause High Blood Pressure Reduce Your Thirst for Soft Drinks Make Soft Drinks a Treat Now REDUCE SPEED 2 When do you think a road sign like this would not be seen? A B C D School ahead Housing area ahead Petrol Station ahead Pedestrian crossing ahead

3 45,000 Number of Visitors to Sentosa Theme Park 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000 15,000 10, April 29 April 30 April 1 May 2 May 3 Based on the line chart, 1 st May has the most number of visitors to the theme park is most probably because it is A B C D Labour Day Independence Day Malaysia day Teachers Day

4 The coconut tree is a useful plant. The fruit contains a clear sweet liquid that makes a refreshing drink. The flesh of the fruit can be grated and coconut milk can be obtained from it. We use coconut milk for cooking curries and other favourite Malaysia dishes and cakes. The flesh of the coconut is dried and cooking oil is processed from it. The shell can be made into cooking utensils and ornaments. The trunk of the tree can be used as a bridge across a small ditch. The leaves can be woven to make partitions to separate rooms. 4 What can you conclude from the above information? A B C D Every part of the coconut tree is useful. Coconut milk can be obtained from the coconut flesh. The trunk of the coconut tree is used to make decorative items. Cooking oil is made from the clear sweet liquid found in the coconut. 5 From the cartoon strip, the pavement has turned into a A B C D yard sale furniture display recycling centre dumping ground

5 FRESH FACE CREAM Buy 3 bottles at the usual price and get ONE FREE RM25.50 per bottle 6 According to the advertisement, if you buy three bottles of Fresh face cream, you A B C D get three bottles free pay a total of RM25.50 pay for all the four bottles pay RM25.50 each for three bottles

6 Sumatra Rhinos are an important part of Malaysia s heritage The Sumatran Rhino is Malaysia s most endangered animal and the world s most endangered rhino species. As such, the rhino is part of Malaysia s and the world s heritage. The Sumatran rhinoceros population has rapidly declined over the past few decades primarily due to poaching. A secondary factor is the loss of forest. There are now less than 300 left in the world. Save the Sumatran rhinos. 7 From the text, the rhinoceros population is declining mainly due to A B C D poaching conservation cutting down of trees being made a heritage

7 Stage V.I.Ps Guests and Teachers Guests and Graduating students Students Students 8 According to the plan, the graduates will A B C D walk around the hall move in a clockwise direction move in an anti-clockwise direction move out of the hall after receiving their certificates

8 Questions 9-15 are based on the following passage. Choose the best answer to fill in each blank. Nicol David was born on 26 August, 1983 in Penang. She (9) the daughter to engineer Desmond David and Anne Marie David, a teacher. Her early experience with squash occurred (10) the tender age of five. She took the game seriously and with regular training and active participation, she was soon involved in competitive games. A scout noticed her raw talent and (11) her into the state team. Nicol chalked up her first international win at the Hong Kong Under-13 game. Later, she started climbing her (12) by conquering Asian challenges. (13) being so young, her quest for world domination began to gain attention. For the next couple of years Nicol won a series of Asian championships (14) marked her grand arrival in the world scene by becoming the world s youngest junior champion, at the age of 15. In the process, she beats three players who were (15) in the world s top 20. She won the junior championship twice and became one of only two players in the history of squash to have achieved the feat. 9 A is 13 A Despite B are B Therefore C was C Moreover D were D However 10 A at 14 A or B in B but C with C and D against D because

9 11 A draft 15 A ranked B drafts B nominated C drafted C eliminated D drafting D disqualified 12 A way up B C D way off way out way down

10 Section B [10 marks] [Time suggested: 25 minutes] Questions 16 to 25 Read the following poster and answer the questions that follow. Is this the end of CHOCOLATE? Chocolate tastes good, what else is there to say? Let s start with the fact that we re facing an imminent worldwide shortage ITS KEY INGREDIENT GROWS ON TREE! Chocolate is made from the fruit of the cacao tree, the rather confusingly named cocoa bean. The trees only grow in hot, wet tropical conditions. They are slow producers: a corn farmer can turn out three crops a year but a cacao trees take three to five years to generate their first crop. And they re delicate and easily damaged by sun and wind, as well as by pests and diseases which destroy up to 40% of each year s global crop. In 20 years chocolate will be like caviar. It will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won t be able to afford it. Nature Conservation Research Council founder John Mason in 2010 THE PROBLEMS: Unfortunately, around 60% of all cocoa comes from the West African Nation of Ivory Coast and Ghana, where ongoing dry weather and decades of civil conflict (Ivory Coast) have damaged crops and affected the production. Meanwhile, our global consumption of the sweet treat is increasing, led by a wider switch to darker, more cocoa-heavy styles. By 2012, demand had exceeded supply as prices rose accordingly. Chocolate is likely to become more pricey while product sizes shrink. Manufacturers may switch their products with other ingredients. Good News! Research in underway to develop hardier trees producing bigger yields while still making tasty chocolate (a tricky balance). At the same time, Fairtrade arrangements are improving the lives of the small farmers on whom the industry depends, by increasing their income and helping them replace old trees and equipment, thus keeping them in business and encouraging others to join them. (Adapted from Asia Reader s Digest, Feb 2016)

11 Using the information given, complete the table below. Is This The End of Chocolate? About The Source Main Suppliers The condition for the trees to grow: wet tropical conditions. Cacao trees are delicate and easily damaged by: - Sun Pests The Problems 21. Decades of civil conflict in one of the supplying countries Prediction In 20 years, the chocolate will be Ways to improve farmers lives

12 Section C [25 marks] [Time Suggested: 50 minutes] Questions 26 to 31 are based on the following passage. 1 The village lay ahead; all around lay the dull green forest. Nearby, a buffalo, fastened by rope to a tree, was placidly grazing. Sanjay turn to his driver. It s a peaceful scene, isn t it? Not for the buffalo, the driver said. That s the bait for the tiger we re looking for. At the moment it s lucky. The tiger never came. They stopped the truck and got out. Immediately a woman came running up, obviously distressed and anxious to tell Sanjay something. Her husband, she said, had slept out last night to protect his family s field. Today he had not returned. She and her neighbours had gone to his little hut by the fields. It was smashed down. The tiger had taken him. They had seen the footprints. The woman s tears made Sanjay even more determined to catch this murderous, maneating tiger. Moreover, it had now claimed two victims. Tomorrow he would talk with the villagers about plans to hunt the tiger down. Early next morning he decided to take a look around. He walked around the dirt road that led out of the village, and then turn off on to a narrow path at the edge of the jungle. The path began to take him through an area of tall grass three or four metres high. He stopped. Just in front of him lay a paw print. To his left were three more prints, each of the ten centimeters wide. Obviously, a large male tiger had come this way and from the look of the prints had crossed the path quite recently. The surrounding high grass seemed dense and solid. Then, looking harder, he spotted several bent and broken stems. An animal had clearly pushed its way through the grass. He had hardly taken in this evidence when a heavy, low, continuous growling started up inside the grass. The tiger was there. It was so close he could feel the vibration of its growls coming through the earth. He stood there, his heart thudding. The growls instantly grew louder. The tiger s head could not be more than three metres from him; one short bound But why could he not see it? With a great effort he stood quite still. A remark of an old-time hunter flashed into his mind. When tigers come across people, they move away. This tiger, however, was not moving. Its behavior was clearly abnormal. This must be a man-eater. Then he caught a glimpse of movement. Yellow and black stripes glided swiftly through patch of thinner grass. To his horror,

13 Sanjay half-hearted, half-saw the tiger circling back past him until it was moving parallel with the road. Then it stopped. It had cut him off from any escape back to the village. Sanjay looked around for any trees to climb. There were none within fifty yards. There was no means of retreat. The growl has ceased, but a flicking, swishing noise came from the tall grass. The tiger had stopped again. Staring intently into the grass, Sanjay spotted some small movements. He realized the dry grass was being disturbed by the tiger s tail. Whatever he did, he knew he must move slowly. He must not run it would set off the man-eater s attack. Anyway, no matter how fast he sprinted the tiger would catch him. He took two slow steps along the path. The tiger s growls broke out again. This time Sanjay retaliated with his own grunting order. Get out of it! Get Away! he made his voice low and menacing as he could. The animal fell silent, but did not move. Then he caught a glimpse of its striped coat. It still had him cornered. Sweat stood all over his body; he felt paralysed and unable to think. Then came all together different noise: a squeaking and thudding and the clatter of a diesel engine burst through the jungle. Suddenly, a vehicle lurched into view along the path, with the driver at the wheel. He caught sight of Sanjay and stopped a few metres away, keeping the engine still running. Yet, the tiger still lay between Sanjay and safety. In that instant, Sanjay made up his mind. Let it spring, he thought. I ve only one chance left. With one enormous leap Sanjay hurled himself at the open seat of the truck, alongside the driver, but landed flat on the bonnet. Almost at the same moment, a streak of black and yellow fur thundered onto the vehicle, next to the driver, eyes blazing, claws slashing. As if, in a dream, Sanjay felt the vehicle roar backwards, and saw his driver beating the tiger over the head with an iron wrench. Again and again he hit it. The tiger dropped to the ground; the vehicle carried on speeding backwards down the path, with Sanjay clawing madly at the windscreen in his attempt to hang on. The vehicle slowed down and came to a halt, safe on the open road. Sanjay sat up and stared dumbly at the tall forest grass. There was no sign of the tiger. Then he looked at his driver and saw a grin slowly spreading across his face. The buffalo lives another day, he said (a) From paragraph 1, why was the buffalo tied to the tree? [1 mark]

14 (b) From paragraph 2, how did the woman know that it was a tiger that had taken her husband away? [1 mark] 27 From paragraph 4 (a) Although the tiger was very near, why could Sanjay not see it? [1 mark] (b) Which sentence shows that Sanjay was convinced that the tiger was near? [1 mark] 28 (a) From paragraph 6, What was peculiar about the tiger s behaviour? [1 mark] (b) From paragraph 7, which word means quick, lightning movement? [1 mark]

15 29 (a) From paragraph 8, can you explain what was the effect of Sanjay s grunting order on the tiger? [1 mark] (b) From paragraph 11, Sanjay stared dumbly at the tall forest grass once he had escaped from the tigers. State the feelings. [1 mark] 30 The buffalo lives another day. State the fate of the buffalo as suggested by the above sentence. Give reason for your answer. Fate: [1 mark] Reason: [1 mark]

16 31. Sanjay found himself threatened by the man-eating tiger. Write a summary on how he tried to deal with it and what eventually saved him. Credit will be given for the use of own words but care must be taken not to change the original meaning. Your summary must: Be in continuous writing ( not in note form) Use materials from line Not be longer than 130 words, including the 10 words given below Begin your summary as follows: Sanjay was in great danger when he saw the tiger [15 marks]

17 Section D [20 marks] [Time suggested : 35 minutes] 32 Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. A Poison Tree I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree. William Blake (a) In stanza 1, who is the persona angry with? [ 1 mark ] (b) Which word in stanza 1 shows the persona is similar to an apple tree? [ 1 mark ] (c) In stanza 2, what does the word it refer to? [ 1 mark ]

18 (d) How would you feel if you had a misunderstanding with your friend? Explain. (i) Feelings : [ 1 mark ] (ii) Explanation : [ 1 mark ] 33 The following are the novels studied in the literature component in English Language. Dear Mr Kilmer - Anne Shraff Captain Nobody - Dean Pitchford Sing to the dawn - Minfong Ho This novel teaches us many lessons about life Based on the novel that you have read, discuss the lessons you have learnt based on one incident. Support your answer with close reference to the text. [ 15 marks ]

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