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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
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Answer all questions in the spaces provided on the question paper.

You should pay attention to punctuation, spelling and handwriting. 7

The number of marks is given in brackets at the end of each question 8

or part question. The total number of marks for this paper is 50.
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Suggestions for how long to spend on each section are given in the booklet.
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Section A: Reading For

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Spend 20 minutes on this section.

Read the text and then answer the questions.

1 Wh
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The Cloth of Emperors silk
Kings and princes have used it to make their clothes and decorate their houses ma
for hundreds of years. And it is made by a tiny caterpillar. What is it? It is silk, deb
an ancient material which came from China and has been woven into rugs, y?
clothes, tapestries and decorations of all kinds for close to 4 000 years. It is a [
rich, soft, shining cloth, lovely to wear and beautifultosee. 5 1
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Silk is a natural material made from tiny threads that are squeezed out as a
liquid from the body of the silkworm. The silkworm is not really a worm at all T
but a caterpillar (a larva of the silkmoth). The liquid silk comes out of its body S
at about 30 centimetres a minute and it hardens when it touches the air. It is
what the caterpillar uses to formacocoon. 10

The Chinese knew how to feed the silkworms on the leaves of the mulberry
tree. They knew how to pluck, chop and prepare the mulberry leaves so the
greedy silkworms would eat them. They knew what things to do so that the
worms would spin threads of the finest silk.

The Chinese guarded the secret of how to raise the silkworm for alongtime. 15
By law of the emperor, anyone who disclosed the secret would be tortured to
death.

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Silk is made from mulberry leaves. Silk

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Silkworms squeeze a liquid out of their bodies. first
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Silkworms eat the tiny threads of silk.
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Silkworms are not worms.
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3 Paragraphs are used in the text, The Cloth ofEmperors.
Draw lines to link each paragraph with its main topic described in the boxes. e

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1paragraph looking after silkworms
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2paragraph how silk is made n

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3paragraph what silk is used for
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4 For a long time, the Chinese guarded the secret of how to raise
silkworms. Suggest a reason forthis. m
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5 Tick (✓) the best description of the whole text, The Cloth For
ofEmperors. Teach t
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It gives information about silk. i

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It explains how silk clothes are made.
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It persuades us to like silk.

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6 Read and compare thesetexts. n

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both texts is the same but the way it is written is different. Tick

(✓) the text you prefer to read.

Text1
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Text2 Wh
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Explain why you chose that text. a
batt
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7 In the text, The Cloth of Emperors, paragraphs areused. d
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A paragraph has been missed out between the 3rd and 4th (final) Teache wit
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paragraphs. h
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Tick (✓) one box to suggest the most likely topic for this missing stic
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paragraph. other kinds of cloth used by kings and emperors n?
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how the silk threads are collected from the cocoons

mulberry trees (
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number of leaves that are chopped up W
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Read the text and then answer the For re
questions. Tea
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How a Battery Works c
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It is possible to discover a lot about electricity using small batteries and bulbs. d
Batteries are useful because they are small enough to be carried from place to s
place. The first battery was made by an Italian scientist, Alessandro Volta. He al
discovered that some metals and a liquid could work together to produce t
electricity. He used salt water in his battery. w
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These days, the case of a battery can be made of zinc metal. This is often er
covered with plastic or tin to prevent the battery from leaking. There is a in
carbon rod (like a thick pencil lead) in the middle of the battery. The battery b
case is not filled with salt water because this would leak out. Instead, there is a at
chemical paste between the carbon and the zinccase. te
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The chemicals in the battery make electricity. As the electricity is taken from e
the battery, the chemicals are slowly used up. Eventually, the battery cannot s
make electricity
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9 Tick (✓) two boxes to show which statements about batteries

arefalse.

Batteries are always too heavy to carry.

Battery cases can be made of zinc metal.

Car batteries can be recharged.

In batteries, electricity is made by chemicals.

Salt water is used in all modern batteries.

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10 Batteries do not make electricity forever. Whynot? For
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11 The text How a Battery Works is an explanation text.

Tick (✓) one box to show which statement is true about

explanation texts. The paragraphs can be read in anyorder.

The text includes opinions.

The text is impersonal.

The text is personal.

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Spend 25 minutes on this section.

12 Using four (4) paragraphs,write a descriptive text.

 Use adjectives to describe nouns in your text.

 Include a title for your story.

 Keep your work as tidy as possible.

 Include features of style e.g similes,metaphors,etc to make your work

interesting.

PLANNING
Spend up to 5 minutes making notes in the box to plan your text.

Purpose and Audience [6] Punctuation [2]

TextStructure [5] Spelling [2]

SentenceStructure [5]
Write your explanation text here.
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Spend 15 minutes on this section.

13 Join the underlined word in each of these sentences to match the correct word
class.

Silk is a beautifulmaterial. preposition

Batteriesare very useful. noun

There are chemicals inthe battery. adjective

The Chinese guarded theirsecret. pronoun

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14 (a) Underline the main clause in this sentence.

Silk can cost a lot of money, which many peopledon’thave. [1]

(b) Underline the connectives in each of these sentences.

Silkworms are very useful because they make silkfibres.

If the chemicals are used up in a battery, electricity will notbe made. [2]

(c) Add commas to thissentence.

The silkworm which feeds on mulberry leaves is really a

caterpillar.
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15 Identify and correct the errors in each of these sentences. Make sure they
are still in the past tense. The first one is done foryou.

ate
The silkworm eatedthe leaves.

They was living on mulberry trees.

Silk material costed a lot of money.

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16 Replace the underlined words withpronouns.
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The Chinese emperor wanted to keep the secret about silk.
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The Chinese emperor(1) knew that silk(2) was worth a lot of
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money. The Chinese emperor(3) said the secret was important

to all of the Chinese people(4).

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17 Join these simple sentences into one complex sentence. r

You must not use the word‘and’.
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is not filled with salt water.

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18 Add two apostrophes to thissentence.

A b a t t e r ys p o we r i sn t s t r on g w he n i ts

c h e m i c als a re used u p. [1]

19 Rewrite this conversation with correctpunctuation. For
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Hari said let’s make an electric toy I don’t know what to do his
friendreplied.

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20 Are these examples direct or reported speech?

Write direct or reported in eachbox.

“My project is nearly finished,” said the student. …………………………

He said that he needed four batteries. …………………………

The teacher replied that she only had three left. …………………………

“That’s no good then,” grumbled the student. …………………………

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Page6 © How a Battery Works Terry Cash and Steve Parker from More Fun With Science (Kingfisher books1990)

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