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[20 marks]
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Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text. The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines; there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

There once live a poor country mouse and a rich town mouse. The rich mouse e.g lived
was a good friend of the country mouse.
The poor country mouse invited he friend, the town mouse, to his home 1.his
for dinner. The town mouse arrive all dressed up. As he looked around the 2.arrived
countryside, he muttered to himself, "What a different place this is! There is neither 3.are
carriages nor stores. I saw nothing but old-looking houses and fields." 4.see
He was then led into an hut. Sweet corn, peas, barley and small pieces of 5.a
cheese was placed in front of the guest who was grumbling with disgust.

6.were

"Please help yourself, though it's not many of a meal," said the country mouse.

7.much

Taking a bit of barley, the town mouse said to the host mouse, "How can you 8.bite
stand living on such poor food? Why don't you visit I in my town house. I will treat 9.me
10.to

you for a big feast."

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

e.g sat
One delightful summer's day, a duck sit on her nest waiting for her eggs to
hatch. A shell cracked. Than one after another, the sweet creatures hatched. When

1.Then

the largest egg do not break, the mother duck became worried.

2.did

A nosy old duck paid her a visit or said, "This one must be a turkey's egg.

3.and
4.it

Just leave them."

At last, the larger egg cracked and out jumped a large duckling.

5.largest

"How ugly ! No doubt this is a turkey's children. If you put it in the water it

6.child

will never learn to swim," the old duck say.

As it was such a sunny day, the mother duck decided to take she family for a

7.said
8.her

swim. She jump into the water and the little ducklings followed her, splashing about.

9.jumped

The ugly duckling also jumped in and paddled along happily from his family.

10.with

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[20 marks]
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Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

Suthasinee Noi-in is better known by she nickname Mae Tiew (Mother Tiew) e.g her
among the AIDS/HIV orphans live in Home Hug Orphanage. Though she established 1.living
it on 1987, it took her more than ten years to turn what was once a makeshift shelter

2.in

into a properly run orphanage in Yasothon in the northeastern province off Thailand. 3.of
Suthasinees devotion to her cause come under the national limelight in 2007 when 4.came
her story were turned into a TV commercial for a life insurance company. The 5.was
popular ad show the 54-year-old dedicating herself to maintaining and supporting 6.showed
these children despite suffering by cancer herself. But fragile is not a word you

7.from

would use to describe that average-sized, dark-skinned woman who seems to glow 8.this
even without some make-up. If she were, hundreds of children might not be alive 9.any
today. Her desire to helping others started over 25 years ago at university when she
joined a volunteer camp to help poor farmers in the province.

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Section A
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Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

After the morning hustle and bustle, the atmosphere on Tai-tung countys Central e.g at
Market quietens as every stall shuts for the day and their owners return to the comfort
of their homes. A lone lamp shines on a vegetable stall. With head bowed, Chen ShuChu silently sorts out the vegetable leaves as she waits for the occasional afternoon
customer.
Decades of hard working have caused the fingers on the right hand to curl and 1.work
joints to swell; her feet have deformed slightly. Chen lead her life with a daily 2.leads
routine waking on at three in the morning, she makes her way to the vegetable 3.up
wholesaler and sets up her stall, whom she tends till seven or eight in the evening.

4.which

Being the first to arrive and last to leave, the other stall owners has fondly given her 5.have
the title of market manager. In the dark and damp market, Chen, nearing hers 6.her
sixties, holds the stall her father left her dearly. Yuan-Jin Vegetables is her 7.are
everything. With her vegetables sells at a bundle for 30 dollars, three bundles for 8.selling
50, Chen earns only marginal profits. Yet, her frugality has allow her to donate 9.allowed
about NT$10 million ($321,550) towards various charitable cause, including helping 10.causes
schools, orphanages and poor children.

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[20 marks]
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Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

In 2001, Fernandes was the vice president for ASEAN in Warner Music South e.g at
East Asia. One night, he saw a Easy Jet television ad and got interested in the 1.an
concept off low-cost carriers.

2.of

He realised that was what he wanted to do. He called his wife and told her of his 3.this
plan, and she couldnt stop laughing.Fernandes mortgage his house and then rallied 4.mortgaged
a couple of he buddies in the music industry to set up Tune Air Sdn. Bhd. The 5.his
Malaysian government, however, turned up the license application. Fernandes 6.down
quickly arranged a meet with then Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad. Dr 7.meeting
Mahathir suggested that, instead of getting an license, Fernandes should buy the 8.a
fledgling AirAsia, a heavy indebted subsidiary of a government-owned 9.heavily
conglomerate.With youthful audacity he announced, I will buys AirAsia for one 10.buy
Malaysian ringgit! He got this reply: Yes, you can buy it tomorrow.

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[20 marks]
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Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
Underline the error and write the correct word in the space provided. An example has been
given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

A flood is a overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry.

e.g an

Floods can happen in flat or low-lying areas when the ground is saturated and water 1.on
either cannot run of or cannot run off quickly enough to stop accumulating. This may

2.off

be followed by a river flood as water moves away from the floodplain onto local 3.into
rivers and stream.

4.streams

Floods will also occur if water falls on an impermeable surface, such

5.can

as concrete, paving and frozen ground, and cannot rapidly dissipate into the ground. 6.or
Localised heavy rain from a series of storms moving beneath the same area can 7.over
cause areal flash flood when the rate of rainfall exceeds the drainage capacity of the 8.flooding
area. When these occurs on tilled fields, it can result in a muddy flood where 9.this
sediments are picked up by run off and carry as suspended matter or bed load.

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Section A
[20 marks]
[Time suggested : 15 minutes]
Questions 1 - 10 are based on the text . The first and the last lines are correct .For the
remaining lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.
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given. The correct word must not change the meaning of the sentence. There are no spelling
errors in this text.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious diseases of humans and other e.g disease

animals cause by parasitic protozoans (a type of unicellular microorganism) of the 1.caused
genus Plasmodium. Commonly, the disease is transmitted by a biting from an 2.bite
infected female Anopheles mosquito, who introduces the organisms from its saliva

3.which

into a person's circulatory system. In the blood, the parasites travel from the liver to 4.to
mature

or

reproduce.

Malaria

causes

symptoms

that

typically 5.and

include fever and headache, which in severe cases will progress to coma or death.

6.can

Disease transmission can be reduced by preventing mosqiuto bites by using 7.mosquito

mosquito nets and insect repellents, or with mosquito-control measure such as 8.measures
spraying insecticides and draining stand water. The disease is widespread 9.standing
in tropical and subtropical regions at a broad band around the equator, including 10.in
much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

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