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Kertas 2

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2000

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PEPERIKSAAN AKHIR TAHUN

TINGKATAN 4

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SEKOLAH MENENGAH TEKNIK ALOR SETAR

BAHASA INGGERIS

KERTAS 2

Dua jam lima belas minit

JANGAN BUKA KERTAS SOALAN INI SEHINGGA DIBERITAHU

Arahan

1. Kertas soalan ini mengandungi tiga bahagian.

2. Jawab semua bahagian.

3. Anda dinasihati supaya mengambil 30 minit untuk menjawab Bahagian A, 45 minit untuk menjawab soalan Bahagian B dan satu jam untuk soalan dalam Bahagian C.

Instructions

1. This question paper consists of three sections.

2. Answer all sections.

3. You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on Section A, 45 minutes on Section B and one hour on Section C.

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There are three sections in this paper. Answer all three sections. You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on Section A, 45 minutes on Section B and one hour on Section C.

SECTION A: DIRECTED WRITING.

QUESTION 1.

You are the president of the ‘Caring Society’ club in your school. The society has planned a special project for the end of the school year.

Project : ‘Rumah Kenangan’.

Objective : To bring cheer to inmates of old folks home.

Date : 10^th. November 2000 (Friday).

Activities : - to collect food parcels.

- planting of palm trees.

- serve lunch to inmates.

- paint a mural.

- spruce up a fishpond.

- shower inmates with love and attention.

Based on the information given, give a talk to your members. It should inform your members about the special project and persuade them to sign up as participants.

You must:

Include the following points in your talk; the club objectives and activities for the project.

Add details of your own to make the talk interesting.

Your talk must be between 150 – 200 words.

[30 marks]

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SECTION B: SUMMARY

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

The river was becoming narrower; it had shrunk to half its former width and was now one hundred and seventy yards wide at most.

Elisio began sharpening a huge knife. This was his usual practice before cooking. He fetched the bag of salt meat, which you could always smell no matter where it was stowed, and carved of a few pieces to cook with a mess of beans. But however long he cooked the meat, it remained leathery.

On the fourth day out, we were horrified to see a large number of white maggots crawling on the meat, which Elisio tried very hard to conceal from us. Whenever he thought we were not looking, he would start shaking the meat violently while beating it with his knife. But it was all to no avail: the maggots refused to move. Washing the meat did not help either – all we could do was pick the little horrors off one by one with our fingers.

As a matter of fact, the presence of maggots was not at all surprising. This is salted meat dried in the sun. in the process hundreds of flies, in spite of thick coating of salt, deposit their eggs on it. Though the meat is given a good shaking before it is packed, many of the eggs manage to stay in the folds of the meat and hatched out in due course.

Elisio now put on the beans. Experience had shown us that he wouldn’t start tasting them for another four hours, and that our lunch would not be ready for at least five. Even so, we were grateful for our slow Primus stove: without it we should have had to make for the bank and build a fire and make ourselves a drink.

The weather did not clear up that morning: on the contrary the cloud became thicker.

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Question 2

The writer narrated his experience whilst sailing up a tropical river.

Summarise what happened to the writer and his group before the storm hit them.

What did the writer and Father Antonio do when the storm hit the boat?

What happened after the storm has subsided.

USE ONLY MATERIAL FROM LINES 22 TO 60.

Your summary, which must be in continuous writing (not note form), must not be longer than 140 words including the 6 words given below. You are encouraged to use your own words where possible but keep the original beginning.

Begin your summary as follows:

The weather did not clear up…

[30 marks]

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SECTION C: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Choose and answer any 4 questions from the following. These questions are based on the excerpts of the short stories and poems you have read.

Question 3: The Drover’s Wife.

“Bush all round – bush with no horizon, for the country is flat. No ranges in the distance. The bush consists of stunted, rotten, native apple trees. No undergrowth. Nothing to relieve the eye save the darker green of a few sheoaks which are sighing above the narrow, waterless, creek. Nineteen miles to the nearest house”.

i) Based on the above excerpt, describe the location of the Drover’s house.

[2 marks]

“Four ragged, dried-up looking children are playing about the house. Suddenly, one of them yells, ‘Snake! Mother, here’s a snake!’

ii) What do you think is happening here?

[2 marks]

“She is not a coward, but recent events have shattered her nerves.”

iii) Does the Drover’s wife afraid, and why does she feels that way?

[2 marks]

“He was a drover, and started squatting here when they were married. The drought ruined him. He had to sacrifice the remnant of his flock and go droving again.”

iv) Why does the drover have to go droving again?

[2 marks]

“Thud, thud, comes the woman’s club on the ground. Alligator pull again. Thud, thud. Alligator pulls some more. He has the snake now – a black brute, five feet long.”

v) What is the Drover’s wife doing? Where does the snake hiding?

[2 marks]

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Question 4: The Necklace.

Read through the following passages carefully and then answer questions that follow.

“She was one of those pretty and charming young girls who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, and wedded by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.

She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station; since with women there is neither caste nor rank, for beauty, grace and charm take the place of birth and breeding. Natural ingenuity….”

i) What is the character of Mathilde at the beginning of the story?

[3 marks]

“She came to know what heavy housework meant the odious cares of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, using her dainty fingers and rosy nails on greasy pots and pans. She washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon the line; she took the slops down to the street every morning and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing. And dressed like the woman of the people, she went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher a basket on her arm, bargaining, meeting with impertinence, defending her miserable money, sou by sou.”

ii) What has Mathilde turn into at the end of the story?

[3 marks]

“How stupid you are!” her husband cried. “Go and look up your friend, Madam Forestier, and ask her to lend you some jewels. You’re intimate enough with her to do that.”

iii) Why does her husband say this?

[2 marks]

“She removed her wrap before the mirror so as to see herself once more in all her glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry.”

iv) What happen to Mathilde?

[2 marks]

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Question 5: The Lotus Eater.

i) Name the characters in The Lotus Eater.

[2 marks]

“That’s Thomas Wilson,” my friend said. “He’s going to die when he’s sixty.”

ii) What is the literary device used in the statement underlined?

[2 marks]

“This is the most beautiful place in the world,” Said Wilson. “I fell in love with this island the first moment I saw it. That was sixteen years ago. …. It was a full moon that night.”

iii) Name the place Wilson refers as - “This”.

[2 marks]

iv) Who is Wilson talking to?

[2 marks]

v) What is the climax of the story?

[2 marks]

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Question 6: The Sound Machine.

i) Name the characters in the short story.

[2 marks]

ii) What is the setting of the story?

[2 marks]

“..and on it, among the littering of wires and batteries and small sharp tools, there stood a black box about three feet long, the shape of a child’s coffin.”

iii) What does the above description refers to?

[2 marks]

iv) The element of foreshadowing is prevailed in the above excerpt; it indicates the death or doom of something. Identify the word.

[2 marks]

v) Do you, as the reader, think the main character of the short story mad?

[1 mark]

vi) In the end, what happened to the ‘black box’?

[1 mark]

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Question 7: Looking for A Rain God.

“It is lonely in the lands where the people go to plough. These lands are vast clearings in the bush, and the wild bush is lonely too.”

i) Why does the word lonely appear twice in the paragraph?

[2 marks]

ii) Where does the story take place?

[2 marks]

iii) Name the characters in the short story.

[2 marks]

“ The family sat down in despair, waiting and waiting. Their hopes had run so high: the goat had started producing milk, which they had eagerly poured on their porridge, now they ate plain porridge with no milk.”

iv) Do you agree that there was hope initially?

[1 mark]

v) What caused the family in the state of despair?

[1 mark]

“..but all the people who lived of crops knew in their hearts that only a hair’s breadth had saved them from having a fate similar..”

iv) What can you say about the writer’s sentiment from the phrase above?

[2 marks]

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Question 8: Si Tenggang’s Homecoming.

“the physical journey that I traverse

is a journey of the soul,”

i) What are the journeys that the speaker of the poem meant?

[2 mark]

“transport of the self from fatherland

to a country selected by sight and mind,”

ii) Name the destination and the origin of the journey.

[2 marks]

“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.”

iii) What does the speaker of the poem trying to convey in these lines?

[2 marks]

“ seasoned by confidence,

broadened by land and languages,

i am no longer afraid of the oceans

or the differences between people,

nor easily fooled

by words or ideas.”

iv) What have the speaker of the poem acquired?

[2 marks]

v) What do the last two lines explain?

[2 marks]

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Question 9: There’s Been a Death in the Opposite House.

“There’s been a death in the opposite house

As early as today.”

i) When did the death take place?

[2 marks]

“The neighbors rustle in and out,

The doctor drives away,

A window opens like a pod,

Abrupt, mechanically;”

ii) Who are the people who visited the house?

[2 marks]

“Somebody flings a mattress out, -

The children hurry by;

They wonder if it died on that, -

I used to when a boy.”

iii) Why do the children hurry by?

[1 mark]

iv) What does it refers to?

[1 mark]

“There’ll be that dark parade

Of tassels and of coaches soon;

It’s easy as a sign, -

The intuition of the news

In just a country town.”

v) Did anyone tell the speaker of the poem that someone had died in the opposite house?

[1 mark]

vi) How did the speaker of the poem know the news?

[3 marks]

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Question 10: Monsoon History.

“The air is wet, soaks

Into mattresses, and curls

In apparitions of smoke.

Like fat white slugs furled

Among the timber,

Or silver fish tunneling

The damp linen covers

Of schoolbooks, or walking

Quietly like centipedes,

The air walking everywhere

On its hundred feet

Is filled with the glare

Of tropical water.”

i) What season is being mentioned in the poem (complete verse)?

[1 mark]

ii) Name four elements of personification in the above lines.

[3 marks]

“Drinking milo,

Nyonya and baba sit at home.

This was forty years ago.

Sarong-wrapped they counted

Silver paper for the dead.

Portraits of grandfathers

Hung always in the parlour.”

iii) What did the nyonya and baba do at home?

[2 marks]

iv) What does the word sarong-wrapped refers to.

[2 marks]

“The air is still, silent

Like sleepers rocked in the pantun,”

v) The poet is comparing between the past and the present, do you think there is any similarity between the two?

[2 marks]

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Question 11: If.

“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting,

Or being lied about don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;”

i) What are the qualities prevail in the above lines?

[2 marks]

“If you can meet the Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;”

ii) Why should you treat triumph and disaster the same?

[2 marks]

iii) What would knave do?

[2 marks]

“If you can you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings- nor lose the common touch;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,”

iv) What do you think the above lines suggest?

[2 marks]

“Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!”

v) What is the significant of the above lines?

[2 marks]

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Question 12: Sonnet 18.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eyes of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;

And every fair from fair sometimes declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

i) The persona is comparing ‘thee’ to what?

[1 mark]

ii) Why does the persona feel that ‘Thou’ is better?

[1 mark]

iii) What does the ‘eye of heaven’ refers to?

[1 mark]

iv) How does the persona describe the ‘eye of heaven’?

[2 marks]

“And every fair from fair sometimes declines,”

v) What does this line mean?

[2 marks]

“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

vi) What does the couplet above mean?

[3 marks]

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