Spm Bi Trial 11 2

Portal Pendidikan Utusan 2006 © Hak Cipta Terpelihara Utusan Melayu (M) Berhad, Kuala Lumpur

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SPM ENGLISH

PAPER 2

Time: Two hours and fifteen minutes

Section A [15 marks]

Questions 1- 8 For each of the questions in this section, read the question and then study the information given to find the answer. Then write down the answer A ,B, C or D in the answer sheet provided.

Questions 1-2 Read the advertisement below and answer the following questions. UK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES EDUFARE ROADSHOWS

UK colleges and universities are inviting all students and school leavers to come together with their parents to look through the opportunities for further studies. There will be talks, seminars, exhibitions as well as one to one career and academic counseling.

For further details contact:

Alpha Institute of Higher Education,

604-605 Jalan Brickfields,

Kuala Lumpur.

OR call 03-56721134 ( Ms Lucy )

Date Venue Time 15/12/02

Penang City Council Hall

8.00 am – 4.00 pm

16/12/02 Tun Pepatih Hall, Ipoh

8.00 am – 4.00 pm

17/12/02 Tuanku Mahmud Hall, Malacca

8.00 am – 5.00 pm


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1. According to the advertisement, The Edufare Road shows offers

A. opportunities for further education at Alpha Institute of Higher Education. B. career guidance. C. counseling for parents and students. D. chances for further studies at UK colleges and universities.

2. If you live in Perlis, where is the best place for you to go for the road show ?

A. Tun Pepatih Hall, Ipoh B. Penang City Council Hall C. Tuanku Mahmud Hall, Malacca D. Omega Institute of Higher Education,604-605 Jalan Brickfields, K.Lumpur

Questions 3-4 Study the graph below and answer the following questions.

Bar Graph : How Students in SMK Taman Kiambang Indah Come to School every day

450

400

250 250

65

40

A : Bus B : Car C : Van

D : Bicycle E : Motorcycle F : Walking

A B C D E F


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3. From the bar graph above, we know that most students from SMK Taman Kiambang Indah come to school by

A. bus. B. bicycle. C. car. D. motorcycle.

4. All the statements are true about the graph except

A. the least number of students walk to school every day. B. more students come to school by bus compared to other means of

transport. C. there are equal number of students who come to school by car and

motorcycle. D. The bicycle is the most preferred form of transport.

Question 5 Study the advertisement below and answer the questions that follow.

Are you a dedicated person? Are you an energetic person? Do you have self-confidence?

If all the answers are “YES’ why don’t you join us as facilitators at:

Langkawi Summercamp

5. What is the post offered in the advertisement?

A. Personnel manager B. Trainer C. Facilitator D. Teacher


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Questions 6 and 7 Look at the brochure and answer the questions that follow.

Question 8 Study the chart below and anser the question that follows.

Saturday November 14 2006

Morning Bright but cool Afternoon Sunny and hot Evening Cloudy Night Rainy 8. What would be the best time for someone to go for a brisk walk? A. Morning B. Afternoon C. Evening D. Night

6 This celebration will take place in A Thailand B Malaysia C Cambodia D Myanmar

7 The word `manned’ means A made by B painted by C maintained by D operated by

Royal Barge Procession A grand and stately spectacle awaits on Bangkok's Chao Phraya River on June 12. That's when the Royal Barge

Procession will be gracefully gliding in formation along the river to the rhythmic beat of drummers, manned by more than 2,000

brilliantly clad oarsmen in ancient costumes.


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Questions 9 – 15 Read the following passage and choose the best answer. Then circle A, B, C or

D on the question paper.

The coconut is the fruit of the coconut palm. It is the …..9….. seed known in

the botanical kingdom. The variety that yields pandan-flavoured coconut water

…..10….. become a popular thirst quencher.

In Malaysia, coconut is a popular plant in the gardens of many houses. Fresh

coconut water, with its vitamin C, dietary fibres, potassium …..11….. sodium is

considered best for its cooling properties.

The water is …..12….. to children to ease high fever and to replenish water

loss due to diarrhoea.

The sugars and vitamin B that …..13….. energy make coconut water a stress

buster. Young coconut water …..14….. also taken as a remedy for flatulence,

vomiting and to improve digestion and absorbtion.

Besides taking it as a refeshing drink, coconut water has been used directly

on …..15….. face for skin dydration.

The Star, March 1, 2006

9. A. large B. largest C. larger D. - 10. A. having B. have C. has D. had 11. A. and B. but C. or D. besides


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12. A. gives B. give C. giving D. given 13. A. provide B. provides C. provided 14. A. are B. am C. is 15. A. the B. a C. an


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Section B [10 marks]

Questions 16-25 Read the advertisements below and answer the questions that follow.

Read the advertisements, then answer the questions that follow.

Chinese Brush Painting For adults/children Mr Wang, world-renown calligrapher from China will give a demonstration. Classes will be held at BambooScript, 44-1, Jalan PJS 10/5B, P. J. For further enquiries, call Anne at 03- 7791 6012.

DANCE CLASSES We specialise in Salsa, Mambo. Also Ballet and ballroom dancing. Beginners Adult: RM500 per month Beginners Children: RM800 per month Classes held weekdays 8pm – 10 pm and weekends 9am – 11am. Visit us at The Steps in Damansara Call Edwina at 019-880 2267

Bakers Delight

Learn to bake and ice your cakes like a

professional.

Teacher: Martha Ling, author of 3 best sellers of

Floral Fair Amateurs welcome

Japanese and European techniques

Course duration: 9 months. Internationally recognised

certificate. Call Tan at 03-680 27645 for

details.

A Cut Above

Like to dress up? Can’t afford all those designer clothes? Don’t worry… we can help you. Simple steps to sewing your own clothes. Visit us at The Mall, Level 2 or e-mail us at [email protected]


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Questions 16- 25 For each of the descriptions below, select the most suitable place from the advertisements. No Description Place 16. I have absolutely no knowledge about flower

arrangement but I want to learn. Where should I go?

…………………………..

17. Old Mr Wee wants to continue learning brush painting. What is the name of the company that can help him?

…………………………..

18. Sally wants to wear beautiful clothes so she wants to learn how to sew. Where would she go?

…………………………..

19. Mr Xavier’s daughter wants to learn ballet. Where should he take her?

…………………………..

20. Shida wants to start a cake shop. Where should she go to get a certificate in cake baking?

…………………………..

Questions 21-25 Based on the descriptions, answer the following questions. 21. I want to take a course and then go overseas to start a business. Which course should I take? ………………………………………………………………………………………. 22. You are unable to go to A Cut Above but you need to contact them. What can you do? ………………………………………………………………………………………. 23. I am only free on weekends. What course can I take to keep myself fit? ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 24. Who should I call if I want to find out more about cake baking? …………………………………………………………………………………………. 25. I only know how to travel around Petaling Jaya. What course would be most suitable for me? …………………………………………………………………………………………….


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SECTION C (25 marks)

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

It started in the middle of 1943, as the Germans were being pushed back from Russia. With raw materials scarce, Tull said, both the German and the Soviet armies were scrounging for metal. Hoarding was punishable by a firing squad. Already a few churches in Hiiumaa had been relieved of their clocks, he said, and the small village of Emmaste was worried that theirs might be next. The pride of the village, it weighed about 180 kilos, solid bronze, and had been in the tower since 1925. I was puzzled by Tull’s words -I couldn’t imagine a bronze clock so large but I didn’t want to interrupt his story. Tull explained that, one night in June 1943, six village men secretly buried the clock in the forest near Emmaste. Their plan was to return it to the tower after the war. But it didn’t turn out that way. After the war one of the young men was sent to Siberia and died. The other five, among them Einar Tark, escaped to Sweden ahead of the advancing Soviet army. One of them, Theodore Pruul, was captured and returned to Hiiumaa after the war. When the Soviet re-established control over the island, he kept quiet, fearing repercussions. The buried bronze clock would have been hard to explain. Meanwhile, other locals searched without success. The villagers had eventually decided that Tark, who was still alive in Sweden, had sold it. This is what had brought Jetter Tull to Hiiumaa. His mission: to find the clock and clear his friend’s name before he went to his grave. Unfortunately, time had fogged Tark’s memory. He couldn’t remember the clock ‘s exact location, and neither could Pruul. When we arrived in Emmaste, Tull directed me to a spot near an old farm. Back and forth I went with the metal detector, the old man close behind. At every beep of the detector, he jumped ahead and started to dig. But, alas, our search was in vain. At dusk I decided to give up.


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“Maybe somebody else dug it up and sold it,” I said. ”At any rate, it’s not here”. We drove back to my flat, where he shook my hand, but I could see that his mind was elsewhere. However, I was glad to be through with the whole affair. One day in December I was sitting in the information center, watching rain and sleet fall outside. There were no tourists, so I was a little surprised to hear the outside door open and someone stamping their feet on the mat. A head poked round the corner, and a hand pulled off a wool cap to reveal the unmistakable bushy eyebrows and white hair. “I’ve got new information!” Tull said. He’d visited Tark in Sweden, who told him we had been looking in the wrong place. I glanced at the sleet outside, a sinking feeling coming over me.”Could you come back?” I asked.”The weather’s kind of bad, I don’t think the clock is going anywhere.” Tull would have none of it. ”A man’s honour is at stake!” he said. We rode in silence as the windshield wipers beat out a steady rhythm. Though it was only about one in the afternoon, the light was beginning to fade. We stopped on a gravel road about one kilometre south of where we’d searched the previous spring. There was a grove of trees, an abandoned car wash and what looked to be a grain-drying facility. It seemed a pretty unlikely spot but Tull grabbed a shovel from the boot and let me to the car wash. This is ridiculous, I thought as the light slowly faded and the wetness seeped through my clothes.The old man watched me silently. I think he read my thoughts .He pointed at a small cluster of trees barely four metres from where the car wash had been built. ”Please, just try that one last place,” he said. I crawled out of the ditch and mumbled out loud to myself, ”If this is really some sort of church icon and if God wants us to find it, we will. It is in His hand, not mine. I’m going to go home and forget about the whole thing!”. Not 30 seconds later the metal detector gave a loud chirp. There was something really large buried between the small trees.


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Tull swept the leaves away and rammed the shovel into the ground .The blade hit something solid before it was even 15 centimetres down. He dropped to his knees, digging with his bare hands and throwing muddy dirt from between his legs like a crazed fox terrier. I watched in amazement as he uncovered a ring nearly a metre across, certainly nothing that resembles a clock. “Ah, that ain’t it, ”I said, and started to turn away. “What are you talking about?” Tull said. ”We’ve found it ! Get back here and help me! “ I did and as we dug down I saw a huge church bell. Suddenly I recalled that the Estonian word for clock was the same as that for bell.The former usage was so common that I had completely misunderstood the man from the start. “We need help, and we need to tell the old pastor of the church,” Tull said. ”He was in Emmaste when the bell was buried 5 years ago.” When we slid to a halt on the muddy road near the car wash, Pastor Reinvalla was the first one out of the car. He held on to Tull’s arm as they made their way to where the bell lay half-uncovered. He fell to his knees in tears. A couple of old women rode by on their bicycles and stopped to see why Pastor Reinvalla was kneeling. They walked up, took one look at the bell and were off like a shot. Soon villagers from Emmaste began to arrive. Four or five of us tried to pull the bell out. It wouldn’t budge. Finally someone brought a front-end loader. The bell was lifted up and carried about half a kilometre, where it was placed on the floor of the church. The pastor held a short service to bless and welcome it back to his home.

Adapted from “The Bell Of Emmaste” Readers Digest December 2001.


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Questions 26 - 30 Answer all questions. You are advised to answer them in the order set. 26. From paragraph 1, according to the writer,

(a) Why was hoarding metal a punishable act? …………………………………………………………………………….. (1 mark) (b) Why did Pruul keep quiet about the buried bronze clock? …………………………………………………………………………….. (1 mark)

27. Give two reasons why Jetter Tull came to Hiiumma?

(i) …………………………………………………………………………….. (ii) …………………………………………………………………………….. (2 marks)

28. From the evidence in paragraph 21, what did Tull do when the metal

detector gave a loud chirp? …………………………………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………….. (2 marks)

29. Why didn’t the writer think that they have found what they were looking for?

…………………………………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………….. (2 marks)

30. The pastor held a short service after the bell was lifted and taken to the

church.Why? …………………………………………………………………………….. …………………………………………………………………………….. (2 marks)


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Question 31 The passage talks about how the writer managed to find the bell of Emmaste and

return it to the village. Write a summary of how the writer managed to find the bell/clock and return it to the village of Emmaste. Your summary must

• be in continuous writing (not in note form) • not be longer than 130 words, including the 10 words given below • use materials from paragraph 8 to 28

Credit will be given for use of own wrds but care must be taken not to change the original meaning. Begin your summary as follows: “When we arrived in Emmaste, Tull directed me to a spot …”

(15 marks)


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SECTION D [25 marks]

Question 32 Read the lines of the poem ‘si tenggang’s homecoming’ and answer the

questions that follow.

the physical journey that i traverse

is a journey of the soul.

transport of the self from a fatherland

to a country collected by sight and mind.

the knowledge that sweats from it

is a stranger’s knowledge.

from one who has learnt to see, think

and choose between

the changing realities

it’s true i have growled at my mother and grandmother

but only after having told of my predicament

that they have never brought to reason.

the wife that I began to love in my loneliness,

in the country that alienated me

they took to their perdecisions.

i have not entirely returned, I know

having been changed by time and place,

coarsened by problems estranged by absence.

32 (a) What does the persona equate his physical journey with?

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(b) Which line reveals that the persona admits to being rude to his family?

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[ 2 marks]

(c) State two changes that have taken place in the persona.

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[ 2 marks]

Question 33 Read the extract from the short story ‘“The Necklace’ below and answer the questions that follow, based on the knowledge of the whole story.

``Do you remember that diamond necklace you lent me to wear at the

ministerial ball?’’

``Yes. Well?’’

``Well, I lost it.’’

``What do you mean? You brought it back.’’

``I brought you back another exactly like it. And it has taken us ten years

to pay for it. You can understand that it was not easy for us, for us who had

nothing. At last it is ended and I am very glad.’’

Madame Forestier had stopped.

``You say that bought a necklace of diamonds to replace mine?’’

``Yes. You never noticed it, then! They were very similar.’’

And she smiled with a joy that was at once proud and ingenuous.

Modame Forestier, deeply moved, took her hands.

``Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste! It was worth at

most only five hundred francs!’’


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33. (a) Why did Mathilde decide to talk to Madame Forestier?

……………………………………………………………………… (1 mark)

(b) How did Mathilde feel upon her confession?

………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………….(2 marks)

(c) Do you think Madame Forestier was a true friend? Why?

………………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………….. (2 marks)

Question 34 Answer only one question. The following are the novels studied in the literature component in English Language: Jungle of Hope - Keris Mas The Pearl - John Steinbeck The Return - K.S. Maniam Choose any one of the novels above. Use the information from the novel to support your answer. 34. Which character are you most impressed with? Why? Use information from

to novel to support your answer.

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Answer 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. D 8. A 9. B 10. C 11. A 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. A 16. Floral Fair 17. Bamboo Script 18. A Cut Above 19. The Steps 20. Baker’s Delight 21. flower arrangement 22. I can e-mail them. 23. Dancing 24. Suzanne 25. Chinese brush painting 26. (a) Because metal was scarce.

(b) Because it would have been very difficult to explain to the Soviet why the clock was buried. 27. (i) to find the clock

(ii) to clear his friends’ name before he dies. 28. (i) He swept the leaves away.

(ii) He rammed the shovel into the ground. 29. (i) What had uncovered did not resemble a clock.

(ii) He had expected to see a clock not a bell. 30. (i) to bless it.

(ii) to welcome it back to its home.

Question 31 When we arrived in Emmaste, Tull directed me to a spot near an old farm. We went over the whole area with a metal detector but we found nothing. One day, Tull came to see me see with new information. I did not want to venture out in the bad weather but Tull insisted. We finally stopped at a gravel road about one kilometre south of where we’d searched the previous spring. I moved the metal defector around. Soon, the metal detector gave a loud chirp.Tull started digging and uncovered a huge church bell. The bell was lifted up and carried about half a kilometre, where it was placed on the floor of the church. The pastor held a short service to bless and welcome it back to his home.

(130 words)


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Question 32 (a) A journey of the soul (b) it’s true I have growled at my mother and grandmother (c) (i) he has gained knowledge of different cultures (ii) he cannot completely fit into his fatherland anymore. Question 33 33. (a) She wanted to ease her conscience.

(b) (i) She felt relieved.

(ii) She felt a sense of pride

(c) No. A true friend would have told the truth that the necklace was a

fake and not worth much.

Question 34 Based on the novel `The Peal’ by John Steinback, I find one particular character who I am impressed by. The character of Juana impresses me a lot. Juana is het wife of Kino and the mother to Coyotito. She is a strong, Mexican Indian woman who is a great source of strength to Kino. Juanaj is a loving mother. She loves and cares for Coyotito well. She often sings to Coyotito to calm him down or to put him to sleep. Juana is also a very protective mother. When Coyotito get strung by a scorpion, she immediately tries to suck out the poison from her baby’sy to save him. Juana is a strong and level-headed woman. Juana shows her strength when she tries to get rid of the pearl which she decides is the root of all their problems. However, Kino hits her for grying to throw the pearl back into the sea. Eventhough Kino hits her, she feels no anger towards him. Juana is also supportive of Kino. When Kino decides to leave the village to sell his pearl in the city for a high price, she takes Coyotito and follows him to the city. Eventhough, she wants Kino to get rid of the peark, she follows him to sell the pearl. Juana’s strength and resilience is put to the ultimate test when thet trackers kill her baby, Coyotito. She is unable to hold back her grief. She cries the cry of death. Juana is a perfect wife, mother and protector. She is Kino’s pillar of strength.

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