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Madhrasathul Ahmadhiyya First Term Test - 2008 Grade: 10 IGCSE English - Paper 2 Page 1 of 14

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MADHRASATHUL AHMADHIYYAFIRST TERM TEST – 2008

GRADE 10

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Paper 2 Reading and Writing

0510/02

2 hours

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.No Additional Materials are required.

Exercise: 1

Read the following leaflet on Moulex IRON and answer the questions that follow

A Filling the reservoir

Your iron is designed to function using tap water. However, it will last longer if you use distilled water.

Always unplug the iron before filling the

reservoir.

Always empty the reservoir after use.

B Temperature and steam control

Your Moulex iron has two buttons which control the

intensity of heat produced by the iron. You can,

therefore, adjust the temperature of the iron and the

amount of steam being given off depending upon the

type of fabric being ironed.

Tum the steam control to the desired intensity.

Tum the thermostat control to the desired temperature.

Important: if your iron produces droplets of water

instead of giving off steam, your temperature control is

set too low.

C Spray button

This button activates a jet of cold water which allows

you to iron out any unintentional creases. Press the

button for one second.

D Pressing button

This button activates a super shot of steam which

momentarily gives you an additional 40g of steam,

when needed.

Important: Do not use this more than five successive times.

E suits etc.

It is possible to use this iron in a vertical position so

that you can remove creases from clothes on

coathangers or from curtains. Turning the thermostat

control and the steam button to maximum, hold the

iron in a vertical position close to the fabric but without

touching it. Hold down the pressing button for a

maximum of one second. The steam produced is not

always visible but is still able to remove creases.

Important: Hold the iron at a sufficient distance from

silk and wool to avoid all risk of scorching. Do not

attempt to remove creases from an item of clothing

that is being worn, always use a coathanger.

F Auto-clean

In order that your iron does not become furred up,

Moulex have integrated an auto-clean system and we

advice you to use it very regulary (1-2 times per

month).

Tum the steam control to the off position.

Fill the reservoir and turn the thermostat

control to maximum. As soon as the indicator light goes out, unplug

the iron and, holding it over the sink, turn the

steam control to auto-clean. Any calcium

deposits will be washed out by the steam.

Continue the procedure until the reservoir is

empty.


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Exercise: 1

a. What sort of water are you advised to use in Moulex iron?

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b. What factor makes you decide on the quantity of steam to use?

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c. What should you do if your iron starts to drip water?

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d. How can you control temperature?

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e. Why is the spray button used?

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f. How exactly the unintentional creases can be cleared?

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g. What precaution you should take while ironing delicate clothes?

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h. What happens to your iron if you do not clean it?

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Exercise: 2

Read the following Article on “Migratory Beekeeping” and answer the questions that follow

Of the 2,000 commercial beekeepers in the United States about half migrate. This pays off in two ways. Moving north in the summer and south in the winter lets bees work a longer blooming season, making more honey – and money – for their keepers. Second, beekeepers can carry their hives to farmers who need bees to pollinate their crops. Every spring a migratory beekeeper in California may move up to 160 million bees to flowering fields in Minnesota and every winter his family may haul the hives back to California, where farmers will rent the bees to pollinate almond and cherry tree.

Migratory beekeeping is nothing new. The ancient Egyptians moved clay hives, probably on rafts, down the Nile to follow the bloom and nectar flow as it moved toward Cairo. In the 1880s North American beekeepers experimented with the same idea, moving bees on barges along the Mississippi and on waterways in Florida, but their lighter, wooden hives kept falling into the water. Other keepers tried the railroad and horse drawn wagons, but that didn’t prove practical. Not until the 1920s when cars and trucks become affordable and roads improved, did migratory beekeeping begin to catch on.

For the Californian beekeeper, the pollination season begins in February. At this time, the beehives are in particular demand by farmers who have almond groves; they need two hives an acre.

By early March it is time to move the bees. It can take up to seven nights to pack the 4,000 or so hives that a beekeeper may own. These are not moved in the middle of the day because too many of bees would end up homeless. But at night, the hives are stacked onto wooden pallets, back-to-back in sets of four, and lifted onto a truck. It is not necessary to wear gloves or a beekeeper’s veil because the hives are not being opened and the bees should remain relatively quiet. Just in case some are still lively, bees can be pacified with a few puffs of smoke blown into each hive’s narrow entrance.

To encourage the bees to produce as much honey as possible during this period, the beekeepers open the hives and stack extra boxes called super on top. These temporary hive extensions contain frames of empty comb for the bees to fill with honey. In the brood chamber below, the bees will stash honey to eat later. To prevent the queen from crawling up to the top and laying eggs, a screen can be inserted between the brood chamber and the supers. Three weeks later the honey can be gathered.

Foul smelling chemicals are often used to irritate the bees and drive them down into the hive’s bottom boxes, leaving the honey-filled supers more or less bee tree. These can then be pulled off the hive. They are heavy with honey and may weigh up to 90 pounds each. The supers are taken to a warehouse. In the extracting room, the frames are lifted out and lowered into an ‘uncapped’ where rotating blades shave away the wax that covers each cell. The uncapped frames are put in a carousel that sits on the bottom of a large stainless steel drum. The carousel is filled to capacity with 72 frames. A switch is flipped and the frames begin to whirl at 300 revolutions per minute; centrifugal force throws the honey out of the combs. Finally the honey is poured into barrels for shipment.

Adapted from ‘America’s Beekeepers: Hives for Hire’ by Alan Mairson, National Geographic.


Exercise: 2

1. Commercial beekeeping in United states is profitable in both ways. Give two evidences.

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2. Why North American beekeepers were not as successful as Egyptians in migrating hives?

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3. When did the migratory beekeeping began to become popular and how?

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4. What creates the demand for beehives?

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5. Why do the beekeepers migrate the beehives at night? Give two reasons.

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6. How do the beekeepers make the bees produce maximum honey?

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7. According to the map, between which two states the majority of the beekeepers migrate?

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8. List four important stages involved in the honey making process from beehives to the shipment.

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Exercise: 3

Read the following information about a couple Mr.Thomas Vaughan Miller and Mrs.

Ada Lovelace Miller who are eager to apply for a job which has been advertised. After finishing her

‘O’ levels in 2004, Ada completed a one year Diploma Course in Food Specialty institute, in Sri

Lanka where she currently resides with her husband in Colombo, at 29 Labeview building, Park

lane. Their telephone number is 0112198594. Her personal number is 777416415. Recently she

created her e-mail address as [email protected] . she would turn 28 next month on 16 th.

The ISD number of Sri Lankais 00941.

Ada left Excelsior English School, Namibia, after passing IGCSE examinations

achieving 5 passes including Home Science. Whole she was at school; she was a Girl Guide and

the captain of Eurald House.

Her husband has interest in reading English books but she shows more interest in

cooking. Having been taught a lot by her grand mother, she enjoys trying out new dishes. Bothe

couple listing to music apart from Mr.Thomas past time of painting. She also watches cookery

demonstration in the television.

If she gets the job it will be her first and she intends to fly as quickly as possible to

Namibia, and be with her parents in Mariental at 148.F Block, courtauld Averue before the training

begins on the 21st of April.

Ada has seen the following notice, and has got down an application Form.

Paradise Hotel (privet) LimitedRequires as soon as possible

Junior Chef

To undertake general duties in the kitchen

No prior experience required Age between 18-30 years Must be willing to work long hours Salary negotiable The right candidate would receive a month’s training from 21st April 20th May Interested

personal apply to:

The Human Resource ManagerParadise Hotels (Private) Limited

Boulevard RoadNamibia

(CLOLSING DATE: 30TH MARCH 2007)

Imagine you are Ada, and complete the application form on the opposite page.


mailto:[email protected]

Exercise: 3

Application FormParadise Hotel (private) Limited

Boulevard, Namibia

Post Applied for ……………....................................................

Section: A

Fill name and address in block letters

Surname:………………….................................................... Initial(s) ………………………………

Spouse name:…………………………………………………………………………………………….....

DOB:………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Present Address:………………………………………………………

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Permanent Address:…………………………………………………..

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Contact Number:……………...................... E-mail Address………..………………………………..

Section B

Education Qualifications: …………………………………………………………………………………..

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Positions of Responsibility at school: …………………….……………………………………………..

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Hobbies and Interest: Art Reading Music Watching sports on TV

If appointed, could you start work immediately? YES /NO (Delete as appropriate)

Pay Expected: .. ……………………………………………………………………………………………..

Section C

In the space below write one sentence of between 12-20 words explaining how you gained your culinary skills and any other qualification you have obtained.

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Exercise: 4Read the article on ‘paper recycling’

A Paper is different from other waste produce

because it comes from a sustainable resource: trees.

Unlike the minerals and oil used to make plastics and

metals, trees are replaceable. Paper is also

biodegradable, so it does not pose as much threat to

the environment when it is discarded. Governments

have encourage waste paper collection and sorting

schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has

responded by developing new recycling technologies

that have paved the way for even greater utilization of

used fibre. As a result, industry’s use of recycled

fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin

fibre over the coming year.

B To achieve the benefits of recycling, the

community must also contribute. We need to accept a

change in the quality of paper products; for example

stationery may be less white and of a rougher texture.

There also needs to be support from the community

for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we

need to make the paper available to collectors but it

also needs to be separated into different types and

sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips,

string and other miscellaneous items.

C There are technical limitations to the amount of

paper which can be recycled and some paper

products cannot be collected for re-use. These include

paper in the form of form of books and permanent

records, photographic paper and paper which is badly

contaminated. the paper manufacturer pays a price for

the paper and may also incur the collection cost.

D Once collected, the paper has to be sorted by

hand by people trained to recognize various types of

paper. This is necessary because some types of

paper can only be made from particular kind of

recycled fibre The sorted paper then has to be

repulped or mixed with water and broken down into its

individual fibres. This mixture is called stock and may

contain a wide variety of contaminating materials,

particularly if it is made from mixed waste paper which

has had little sorting. Various machineries used to

remove other materials from the stock. After passing

through the repulping process, the fibers from printed

waste paper are gray in colour because the printing

ink has soaked into the individual fibers. This recycled

material can only be used in products where the grey

colour does not matter, such as cardboard boxes but

if the grey colour is not acceptable, the fibres must be

de-inked. Before the recycled fibres can be made into

paper they must be refined or treated in such a way

that they bond together.

E Most paper products must contain some virgin

fibre as well as recycled fibres an unlike glass, paper

cannot be recycled indefinitely. Most paper is down-

cycled which means that a product made from

recycled paper is of an inferior quality to the original

paper. Recycling paper is beneficial in that it saves

some of the energy, labour and capital that goes into

producing virgin pulp. However, recycling requires the

use of fossil fuel, a non-renewable energy source, to

collect the waste paper from the community and to

process it to produce new paper.


Exercise: 4

You are going to deliver a speech in your school assembly on ‘paper recycling’. Prepare some notes to use on the basis of your speech - make your points on each heading.


Reasons for declining virgin fibre usage.

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Public’s responsibility in paper recycling

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Technical limitation in recycling process

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Exercise: 5

Read the following article about ‘fact and Reading fiction’

Then write a summary of the suggested explanations as to why students find reading difficult.

Your summary should be about 100 words. You should use your own words as far as possible. You will be given up to 6 marks for the content of your summary and up to 4 marks for the style and accuracy of your language.

The notion that reading is one of the most important key to educational success is agreed by all:

newspaper critics, devoted teachers and parents. But what is happening to standards?

Employers are critical: “It is a great surprise and disappointment to us to find that our young employees are

so hopelessly deficient in their command of English”

The latest panic was prompted by a very limited study by a group of educational psychologists using a

dubious test. No wonder it was castigated for intellectual sloppiness. Yet there are many detailed research studies

that illuminate reading problems. In May it was shown that the more lead, aluminum or zinc in a child’s body as

tested by hair or saliva tests, the lower the reading scores. Did that get widely reported?

Other research focused on left- and right-handedness. Fascinatingly, the researchers found that there is a

connection between reading skills and skill with the use of the left or right hands: children with either a very strong

right- or a very strong left-hand skill are likely to have poorer reading skills. Did that get widely reported?

There are serious doubts about whether the present curriculum is helping effective reading, but it is not

contrary to much printed panic, because of too little teaching of phonics. It is because we stop developing reading

skills except in the teaching of literature. We are extraordinarily good at teaching fiction. Reading for learning is

something different but equally important.

Fiction, marvelous as it is as and art form is a poor training for the reading of non-narrative. The story

carries the reader along and stimulates the understanding of the text without too much conscious effort. When

those pupil-readers hit a text explaining facts or arguments, they expect the same thing to work and are

disappointed and baffled when it does not.

This is partly due to sentence length and structure: the average sentence in fiction (according to one US

computer analysis) is as low as 11 words, whereas in learned and scientific writing sentences average 21 words.

They are often of a different structure to those in stories, with far more subordinate clauses. The paragraphs are

also different: fiction keeps rolling. Non-fiction writing has ideas followed by arguments, followed by examples,

before returning to a second argument. Seeing the structure of a non-narrative paragraph is to see the pattern of

the argument and reading fiction will not help a pupil develop this skill.

What is certain is that our pupils will not have access to higher education without specific reading tuition is

non-narrative. From primary to secondary, all our curriculum plans require a clear thread of reading tuition.

Most reading for learning is non-fiction; our best higher reading teaching is through literature. It is this,

mismatch between need and offer that is at the heart of the difficulties of learning to read and reading to learn.

The reading aspect of the curriculum starts will but needs development and broadening during a pupil’s education.


Summary Writing

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Exercise: 6

Write an article for a teenage magazine persuading young people to take care of their environment and offering ideas and advice on how to do this.

The comments below may give you some idea, but you are free to use any ideas of your own.

Your article should be about 200 words long.

8 marks

18 marks


We need play ground, so we cut the trees

I have no time to recycle.

It is much quicker just to throw everything

away.

Bicycle could be used for short distance travel

Reduce the amount of litter, recycle

waste.

Article Writing

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Exercise: 7

‘Is participating in community development programmes’ necessary for students?People have mixed opinion about this issue. Write a letter to the school magazine to put forward your views on this issue.Here are some comments from your friends.

‘I felt happy and proud to clean the litter on beach. It’s beautiful now’. ‘we do not get time to complete our project work and assignments’ ‘I am enriched with the practical experience’ ‘Expectations and dreams have to be fulfilled, my exams are fast approaching’. Why should we bother? Elders are there to take care of society.

Your letter should be about 150-200 words long

The comments above may give you some ideas, but you are free to use any ideas of your own. You will receive up to 9 marks for the content of your letter and up to 9 marks for the style and accuracy of your language.

Letter Writing

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