PRIMARY TEACHERS’ HUB https: //www.facebook.com/TeachersHubb Quality Education & Regular Testing Q 3 POAGTGS2ZOD Paper 1 Answer both Part One and Part Two. Part One Write a composition on one of the following topics. You are advised to spend about 60 minutes on this part of the paper and to write between 350 and 600 words. Total marks for this part: 40. 1 Laughter is the best medicine. 2. Write a story based on one of the followin Either (a) Begin your story with this lin Or —(b) Home alone. ‘Please don’t leave me!”” 3° Write about an incident when you found yourself lost during a tour. 4 ‘Money talks.” Discuss this statement. 5 How has the government of your country helped in ensuring that women are given equal opportunities as men? What more can be done? Part Two Begin your answer on a fresh page. You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on this part of the paper, using 200 - 300 words. Total marks for this part: 20. ‘You are dissatisfied with the service in a restaurant. Write a letter of complaint to the manager. You should cover all the points below in detail. * the name of the restaurant the date and time of the event who you were with what led to your dissatisfaction how you expect to be compensatedPRIMARY TEACHERS’ HUB https: //www.facebook.com/TeachersHubb E-4 Quality ESueation & ResuisrTestns QO 3 POAGTGSZ2ZO Paper 2 Read the following passage carefully before you attempt any questions. Answer all the ques- tions. You are recommended to answer them in the order set. Mistakes in punctuation, spelling and grammar may be penalised in any part of the paper. 1 It was my first week at my new school, a prestigious educational institution set in Boston. That day, Mr Mckim, the headmaster of the school, called an assembly to greet all the new students. As Mr Mckim began to quote proverbs, I quietly slipped a novel from the pile of books in my bag. Mr Mckim’s words droned on and I slowly opened the book to the page that I had been reading. Surreptitiously, 1 5 bowed my head and began to read. The novel was Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and soon I was completely lost in the mesmerising world of Literature. I was at one of the most interesting parts of the novel and did not look up until I had read several pages. When I did finally come up for air, however, I saw the fiercest look- ing teacher glaring at me. He beckoned me to come to him. 10 2 Standing in the headmaster’s office, I wondered if my first week at school would also be my last. The school was a coveted one and had a reputation for getting rid of potentially difficult students. Visions of various punishment methods passed through my mind as I waited for Mr Mckim to see me. I remember thinking that any punishment would do as long as I was not thrown out of the school. My 15 parents had always regarded education as the key to fulfilling all our dreams and here I was, threatening that dream. With a heavy heart, I followed the teacher into the office. 3. “What's your name, young man?” asked Mr Mckim. “Breslow, sir,” I replied. He repeated the name. slowly and stared hard at my face as if he needed to firmly 20 imprint it in his mind. “Let's see what was more interesting than assembly,” he said and held out his hand. Squirming in my seat, I handed him the novel. He turned it over and over in the palm of his hand and then came to the quick con- clusion that I was behind in my English class and had been trying to catch up during assembly. I assured him that we were doing Oliver Twist in English class 25 and became the recipient of his unnerving stare yet again. “You mean you've been reading this on your own?” he asked incredulously. I nodded and after a few minutes of silence, he said, “We wouldn’t want to lose you, Breslow.” 4 Ihad emerged relatively unscathed from the encounter with Mr Mckim but it was unfortunately not my last encounter with the man. In my next year at school, I 30 came across Dr Gruening, a highly educated, refined gentleman who had come from Germany just before World War II. To a bunch of fourteen-year-old students, however, he was a weak and ineffectual man who could be taken full advantage of. His classes were always an opportunity for us to fool around and have fun at his expense. I myself was an active participant in this mockery although I did not 35 dislike Dr Gruening. On his part, Dr Gruening magnanimously ignored most of our pranks until one day when he lost his temper and sent me to Mr Mckim.PRIMARY TEACHERS’ HUB https: /Iwww.facebook.com/TeachersHubb quailty Etvewades To? OSZOAGTSES29 5 Dr Gruening’s note led me once again to the chair in Mr Mckim’s office. Recognition dawned on his face when he saw me and I began to pray hopefully. Consulting my record, he was puzzled that I had maintained such good grades but 40 had so many discipline marks against me. After much thought, he said, “Ask your father to come and see me.”’I felt ill. The next day, I was again at the office, this time with my father. Seeing that my father was determined to keep me in the school, Mr Mckim gave me a fairly reasonable sentence. I was to report to him forty-five minutes before school every morning for the next month and read Great 45 Expectations. My detention was a great joke to all the other students who had heard the news but I myself enjoyed the book very much. 6 About a week later, Dr Gruening brought a stack of papers into the classroom. The class proceeded as usual but at the end of the lesson, everyone started crowding around Dr Gruening, asking questions. I had no idea what was going on until later 50 when someone came up to me and whispered, “We snuck a copy of Gruening’s exam, We're working on the answers but make sure you get enough wrong.” The next day, the papers were discreetly passed to me. After much deliberation, I put the copy in my drawer without looking at it and continued to study my German. 7 The day of the exam came and went. I did fairly well while those who had parti- 55 cipated in the unfair and unjust fight against Dr Gruening did excellently. After class, Dr Gruening asked me to see him. To my surprise, he told me that he was disappointed in me since it was an easy exam and it was obvious that I had not studied, Frustrated, I blurted that I had studied very hard and that it had not been an easy exam. Realising that I might have said too much, I mumbled an apology 60 and waited for him to dismiss me. He pondered for a long time and then said, “No, it was not an easy exam. You studied hard, I know. You did what you should have done.” 8 The next day, Dr Gruening came up with his own method of retaliation and announced that there would be another exam in two days. The results this time 65 round were more realistic. I did about the same while the others did considerably worse. And from that day on, everyone paid full attention in Dr Gruening’s class. From paragraph 1: 1 Why did Breslow decide to read during assembly? 2) From paragraph 2: 2. Why did he welcome any punishment? 2PRIMARY TEACHERS’ HUB https: //www.facebook.com/TeachersHubb Quality Education # Regular Testing Q 3 POAGTGS2ZOD From paragraph 3: 3 (a) How did the headmaster come to the ‘quick conclusion’ (lines 23 — 24)? (2) (b) Why did he not want to lose Breslow? (2) From paragraph 4: 4 Why did the students take advantage of Dr. Gruening? re 5 Why do you think Breslow participated in the mockery despite the fact that he did not dislike Gruening? 2] From paragraph 5: 6 (a) What was Breslow praying for? a (b) Why do you think he ‘felt ill’ (line 42) ? 2) From paragraph 6: 7 Why was Breslow told to get enough answers wrong? mM 8 Provide two reasons to explain why Breslow did not look at the answers. [2] From paragraph 7: 9 What led to Breslow’s frustration? (2)PRIMARY TEACHERS’ HUB https: //www.facebook.com/TeachersHubb Quality Education & Regular Testing Q 3 POAGTGS2ZOD From paragraph 8: 10 Why was the second results considered ‘more realistic’ (line 66)? O) From the whole passage: 11 Choose five of the following words. For each of these, give one word or short phrase (of not more than seven words) which has the same meaning as the word has in the passage. (5) 1. surreptitiously (line 5) . coveted (line 12) . incredulously (line 27) . ineffectual (line 33) magnanimously (line 36) . discreetly (line 53) . deliberation (line 53) . retaliation (line 64) eI ANWRBWHN 12 Write a summary describing Breslow’s years at school and the lessons that he learnt there. USE THE MATERIAL FROM PARAGRAPH 1 TO PARAGRAPH 8. Your summary which should be in continuous writing (not note form), must not be longer than 160 words. [25]