SBLE1033 CONFIDENTIAL Universiti Utara Malaysia REPLACEMENT EXAMINATION DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMME JULAI SEMESTER 2013/2014 SESSION CODE ! COURSE : SBLE1033 / ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION | DATE 7 FEBRUARY 2014 (FRIDAY) TIME :3.00 PM — 5.30 PM (2 % HOURS) VENUES UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA (DEWAN TSO), UUM KL, UUM JOHOR BAHRU, UUM KUCHING, UUM KOTA KINABALU, UUM SIBU. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY SECTION ONE 150 2. Answer ALL questions. Seceeio e e ee SECTION THREE 720 [TOTAL ~~ 1400 INSTRUCTIONS: 1. This question booklet consists of THREE (3) sections in SEVENTEEN (17) printed pages, excluding the cover page. 3. All answers must be written in the question booklet. 4. Use PEN to write your answers. Name of Examiner: (please leave blank) MATRIC NO.: (in words ) “(in numbers ) IDENTIFICATION CARD NO. : INSTRUCTOR : GROUP : J DESK NO. : DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION BOOKLET UNTIL INSTRUCTED ARRAIFIPCAITIAL‘SBLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No. ‘SECTION ONE (50 MARKS) You are advised to spend about 60 minutes on this section. Read the following passage and answer all the questions in PARTS A, B, C, D, and E. A Hidden Minority: Left-handers | Malaysia has hundreds of minority groups. Some of them are defined by their ethnic composition. Others have distinctive cultures and languages. Since Independence, much progress has been made towards providing equal opportunities for everyone. However, one minority group continues to face this discrimination, This is the group of people who are left-handed. " Left-handers are not a small group. Nearly one person in ten is left- handed. This means that there are about 2 million left-handers in Malaysia and more than 600 million in the world. There are no laws that prevent left- handers from living, working eating or studying where they want to. They face a different type of discrimination from other minorities. They live in a world designed for the right-handed majority. Common items from can- openers to scissors, from goff clubs to controls on electrical appliances, pose problems for left-handers. They also have to make a special effort to learn how to do everyday things like writing or winding a watch. i Although a modern society does not look down on left-handers, in the past the situation may have been different. A study of language suggests that left-handedness was regarded as inferior or even evil. The word Jeft comes from an ancient English word /yff meaning weak or worthless. If something is ‘left-field’, it is slightly odd; a ‘left-handed compliment’ is an insult. Words for Jeft that have been borrowed from other languages also have negative meanings. ‘Sinister’, which means evil or harmful in English, is the Latin word for left. The French word for left, ‘gauche’, means awkward in English 10 15 20‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No. Vv In English, the word right always has positive meanings. It also means proper or correct. If you say things are ‘going right’, you mean they are working out well. A ‘right-hand man’ is a very helpful assistant. Words meaning right borrowed from other languages all have positive meanings too. ‘Dextrous’ from Latin and ‘adroit’ from French both mean skilful or clever. Even in Bahasa Malaysia, we have orang kanan {right-hand man). Why are most people right-handed? If being right-handed or left-handed were simply a matter of chance, we would expect that the proportion of left- handers and right-handers would be almost equal. Anthropologists have suggested that it may have something to do with the development of right- handed tools, causing right-handed people to become dominant. Scientists are investigating the effect of prenatal influences on babies’ brains that determine right- or left-handedness. However, no one has yet found an answer to the question ‘Adapted from: Ainul Rusmin Ghazal, C.K. Leong, C. PaulEvanson, K. Krishnakumari, Marina Ismail Masturah Alias, ..., Soraya Mohd Nashir. (2003). Focus on reading and writing (pp. 75 — 77), Kvala Lumpur: Me.Graw Hil 25 30 35SBLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No. PART A (15 marks) Answer the questions below based on the reading passage 1. List THREE (3) ways to define minor groups in Malaysia. a) c) 2. Give the number of left-handers in general (1 mark) 3. Give TWO (2) types of discrimination that left-handers face. a) b) (2 marks) 4. Why did people in the past look down on the left-handers? (3 marks) 5. Give TWO (2) negative words from languages other than English which carry the meaning left a) b) = (2 marks)SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No. 6. _List TWO (2) words meaning right from other languages a) b) @ marks) 7. Why do most people use their right hand rather than their left hand to perform a task? (@ marks) ( / 15 marks) PART B (5 marks) Read the statements below and circle if they are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F). 1. Right-handed groups continue to face discriminations. T F 2. Left-handers have no problem handling common items such T F as can-openers, scissors, and electrical appliances. 3. The ancient English word /yft meant worthless. T F 4. Proper or correct, working out well, and a very helpful T F assistant are the positive meanings of the word right. 5. Scientists found that prenatal influences on babies’ brains 7 F determine right- or left-handedness / 5 marks)SBLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No, PART C (5 marks) Identify what are the following words refer to in the passage. They are boldfaced and underlined in the passage. 1. them (para I, line 1) _ 2. They (para Il, ine 9) 3. It (para IV, line 23) _ 4. you (para IV, line 24) 5. we (para V, line 30) J 5 marks)SBLE 1033 English for Communication | Matic No. PART D (10 marks) Match the following vocabulary items/expressions which are boldfaced in the passage in the column on the left with their meanings in the column on the right. An example has been provided below. Vocabulary items Meanings Eg. minority {para}, tine 4) a. cause 1. equal (paralline4) si. no value 2. prevent (paral, line8) se. inconvenient 3. pose (para ll, line 12) d._a.small group of people 4. winding (para Il, ine 14) €. Major 5. inferior (para lll, fine 17) Fair 6. worthless (paral, ine 18) __ 9. to look forward to 7. awkward (para lll, line 22) sh. to resolve or to decide 8. expect (para V, line 30) i. tuming a knob 9, dominant (para V, line 33) Sj, lowerinstatus 10. determine (para V, line 35) SK. prohiibit 440 marks)‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No. Read the following passage and answer all the questions in PART E. Philippine Launches Haiyan Rebuilding Plan December, 19. MANILA - The Philippine government launched a USS$8.17 billion plan to rebuild the lives of millions battered by Super Typhoon Haiyan. President Benigno Aquino appealed for international assistance and private sector pledges to help his government rehabilitate hundreds of devastated communities and increase their resilience to natural disasters as well as the adverse impacts of climate change. “The task immediately before us lies in ensuring that the communities that rise again do so stronger, better and more resilient than before," he told foreign diplomats and aid officials in a speech at the launch of the initiative. “Every dollar of funding assistance will be used in as efficient and as lasting a manner as possible,” he pledged. Haiyan left nearly 8,000 people dead or missing after it struck the central islands on November 8, disrupting communications within major cities in its path, wrecking more than a million houses with 315kph winds and giant tsunami-like waves created by storm surges. Aquino said the typhoon. one of the strongest to ever hit land and already the second-deadliest natural disaster in the history of the storm-prone Philippines, caused US$12.9 billion in damage and destruction The economic planning department said the government's rehabilitation plan called for spending 360.9 billion pesos over a four-year- period until 2017 and donors will be asked to put up some of the costs. However, no breakdown was given. In his speech, Aquino thanked the global community for the outpouring of support for the typhoon victims. But he stressed there was still much more work to do. 10 15 20SBLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No. vl “Your help is all the more necessary today, because in confronting 25 the escalating effects of climate change the resources of countries like the Philippines will be strained to the limit,” he said. "From now until December 2014 we wil! be preaccupied with critical immediate investments such as the rebuilding and repair of infrastructure and the construction of temporary houses," he said. “Large investments will be spread over multiple years and 30 will hopefully be completed by 2017 if not earlier.” In Japan, a Philippines beauty queen was crowned Miss International and pledged to use her title to help victims of the country's devastating typhoon. “This is my dream. Thank you Japan for giving it to me,” an ecstatic Bea Rose Santiago said at the event, held late on Tuesday in Tokyo. “Vm 35 going to use my crown and my title to help the victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which raked the Philippines last month, living nearly 8,000 people dead or missing. So this is actually for my province, and this js for the Philippines.” Santiago was selected from among 67 candidates representing countries and regions of the world 40 Adapted from: Phitippine launches Halyan rebuilding plan, (2013, December 19). The Star. Retrieved from http://waw. thestar.com, my/News/Regional/2013/12/18/Philippines-launches/.‘$BLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No, PART E (15 marks) ‘Answer the questions below based on the passage. 1. Give the initial cost of Philippine’s government rebuilding plan. (i marks) 2. List TWO (2) appeals of President Benigno Aquino for the Philippine government. a) b) (Zmarks) 3. What are the communities’ THREE (3) characteristics mentioned in President Benigno Aquinc's speech? a) b) °) @ marks) 4, List THREE (3) effects of Super Typhoon Haiyan to Philippine. a) b) c) marks) 5. What is the government's rehabilitation plan as mentioned by the economic planning department? (marks)‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No, 6. List TWO (2) areas which are considered by the Philippine as critical immediate investments. a) b) —— (2 marks) 7. When are the large investments expected to be completed? (4 mark) 8. How did the Philippines beauty queen planned to help? (1 mark) ( = 115 marks) Se = Total score for SECTION ONE: 150 marks 10‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No, SECTION TWO (30 MARKS) You are advised to spend about 40 minutes on this section PART A (10 marks) Complete the text below with the correct Simple Present or Simple Past form of the verbs in the brackets. An example has been provided below. Horses In prehistoric times, men e.g. hunted (hunt) wild horses solely for food. Later, they hunted these animals to tame or domesticate them so that they would be useful. These domestic horses ploughed fields, (1)_ (carry) goods, (______ (round) up cattle and (3)____—___ (transport) people from place to place. Horses were used in wartime too to carry soldiers into battle. Horses (4) (be) wonderful animals. They (5)__ (serve) their masters well. There are some interesting horses in history that were well-loved and (6) (honour) by their owners. Alexander the Great's favourite horse (7) (be) named Bucephalus. He had tamed the horse himself when he was a boy. The horse (8) (go) everywhere with him on his campaigns until it died after a battle in 326 BC. Another horse, Copenhagen, was ‘owned by the Duke of Wellington. When it (9), __ (die), he had it buried with military honours. Sometimes, however, horse owners can overdo their fondness for their horses. The Roman Emperor Caligula, for instance, (10) (make) his horse, Incitatus, a senator! ( __10 marks) "1SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No, PART B (10 marks) Complete the text below with the correct Simple Present, Present Progressive or Simple Past form of the verbs in brackets, An example has been done for you Langkawi Island Off the coast of Kedah e.g. is (be) a cluster of 99 islands offering the best of many worlds like the beautiful beaches, world ~ class infrastructure, mangroves rich in flora and fauna, ultra-cheap duty-free shopping and fascinating legends. The history of Langkawi is woven with a lingering legend. Ask anyone on the island about the tragic story of a beautiful young lady (1) (name) Mahsuri, and you will hear a tale of love, jealousy and a curse that was placed upon the island by her for seven generations. Today, people of Langkawi still (2) (believe) that the prosperity and blessings that the islands (3)____—=___(enjoy) today and the passing of the curse of Langkawi's inhabitants has long come and gone is no mere coincidence. The mysticism of this legend can be felt in many parts of this island, especially at Makam Mahsuri (Mahsuti's Mausoleum), where Mahsuri (4) __ __ (be) said to be buried. Despite what looks like a slant towards tourism, many of the islanders (6). (be) actually farmers, fishermen and entrepreneurs. Experience the beautitul countryside and peaceful landscape of paddy fields by renting a car and taking a leisurely drive around the island. Some of Langkawi's most rustic and memorable views are along the road that (6) (circle) the island 2‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No, You will pass small villages with wooden houses framed by palm trees, and children pedalling their. old bicycles. © on_— errands. While you 7) ___(experience) the local lifestyle, do not miss the thrilling new cable car to the summit of Mount Mat Cincang - Langkawi's second highest mountain - for an unrivalled view of the entire main island and beyond Other popular destinations (8) __ (be) the Field of Burnt Rice, Hot Springs, Telaga Tujuh (The Seven Wells) and the Beach of Black Sand. Boat tours are organised to Tasik Dayang Bunting (Lake of the Pregnant Maiden), Gua Cerita (Cave of Stories) and Gua Langsir (Curtain Cave). For a more intimate time with nature, go trekking through the pristine rainforest that ()__ (cover) most of Langkawi, or go on a boat tour of the mangroves. There are also opportunities to go for a dive, or play a round of golf at some of the 5-star resorts. Langkawi also has Underwater World, with an underground tunnel that (10) (run) through a giant aquarium, that has received rave reviews, c 110 marks) 13‘SBLE 1033 English for Communication } Matric No PART C (10 marks) Each sentence below contains one mistake. Underline the mistake and correct it. An example has been provided below. (left) eg. Alice leaves New Castle yesterday. He need the loan to further his studies. N Last night, Sasha forget to take the cakes out of the fridge. 3. The advertisement show men cycling, canoeing, and skiing 4. The beauty queen, Michelle Teoh, visits the Trinity Medical Centre's pediatric ward in Penang yesterday. 5. Atthis time yesterday, a group of young men practised the kompang, 6. At present, a marine biologist are investigating ways to save the coral reefs around Pulau Tioman, 7. The postman drops the letters into the mailbox at 10 o'clock this morning, 8. My friend and | walks to the campus every day. © The chairman usually announced the date of the following meeting. 10. When Keyo was a young man, he laves to eat gizza for dinner. 110 marks) Total score for SECTION TWO: 30 marks 14‘SBLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No, SECTION THREE (20 MARKS) You are advised to spend about 40 minutes on this section. Choose ONE (1) of the three topics below. Write a FIVE (5) paragraphs essay between 180 - 200 words. 1. Describe the characteristics of a good employee. OR 2. Describe the negative effects of working overtime on workers Use this page to write your draft. 6%SBLE1033 English for Communication 1 Matric No. Write your essay here. 18$BLE1033 English for Communication | Matric No. [ Content = 15 marks Rhetorical structure 15 marks Language : 10 marks | Total : J20 marks i — —— Total score for SECTION THREE: J 20 marks END OF QUESTION BOOKLET 7