Friday, April 29, 2011

EL Practice Paper 5

  1. 1
  2. 4
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 1
  6. 2
  7. 1
  8. 1
  9. 4
  10. 2
  11. 3
  12. 2
  13. 2
  14. 2
  15. 3
  16. 2
  17. 3
  18. 2
  19. 2 / 1
  20. 1/ 4
  21. 1
  22. 3
  23. 4
  24. 1
  25. 3
  26. 4
  27. 3
  28. 4
  29. 3
  30. 3
  31. L
  32. C
  33. G
  34. N
  35. D
  36. H
  37. K
  38. B/J
  39. Q
  40. rehearsals
  41. were
  42. disguised
  43. their 
  44. frowned
  45. correct
  46. pivotal
  47. out
  48. an/ its
  49. rehabiliate
  50. than
  51. care, administration, management, handling, managing, overseeing, running
  52. studied, read
  53. of
  54. considered
  55. title
  56. place, absence
  57. prisoner, away, captive
  58. had
  59. nothing
  60. sink, capsize, perish
  61. however, fortunately, luckily, thankfully
  62. for, of
  63. doubt, ponder, wonder
  64. cause, reason, case
  65. No matter how hard Tim tried, he could not hit any pin with the bowling ball. 
  66. Mr Ong whose main door was vandalised made a police report last night. 
  67. The evening dress that Alice bought was neither cheap nor attractive. 
  68. Due to Mr Tan's inability to fix the burst pipe, the kitchen is flooded. 
  69. No sooner had the boy taken some money from the drawer than his mother walked in.
  70. He was illiterate.
  71. They were the punishment he received at school when he gave the wrong answer and the possibility that he had dyslexia. 
  72. It was getting his father to trace the letters of his name. 
  73. The phrase is "laboured over the words".
  74. Due to his father's illiteracy, he was cheated of the title deed of the house when he unwittingly signed it off. / As the writer's father was illiterate, he was tricked/ forced into selling his farm and thus had to move out. 
  75. The writer's father had lost weight. / The writer's father was ageing. / The writer's father was getting old. 
  76. He was keen and willing to work. The two qualities were his efficiency/ persistence/ perseverance/ determination. (Any two = 2m)
  77. He relied on the illustration which was not accurate. / He thought the picture on the can looked like pears so he bought it. 
  78. He felt embarrassed and frustrated as he had bought a can of potatoes thinking it contained pears as he could not read the label. As he result, he could not surprise the writer with the dessert. 
  79. The writer felt the warmth of his father's hand when his father touched the writer's shoulder on the evening walks and when he carried the writer on his lap.

    8 comments:

    1. Are thr answers given correctly? All the answers don't seem to match mine...

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    2. Sorry, there is a mistake here. Practice 5 is a prelim paper, not SA1 paper. Think the vendor made a mistake. The answers that I uploaded are SA1 answers. I will edit it tomorrow. Please check the answers again.

      Please

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    3. 50) shouldn't the answer be 'rehabiliTate'? There is no such word as 'rehabiliate'...

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    4. I checked my dictionary... (Merriam Webster) there's no such word. I tried 'googling' too, and I can't find the word.

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    5. I put rehabilitate too...

      My answers don't seem to be so much of a problem compared to the correct answers though...

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