Q1
MCQ
1 mark
Mee Fong graduated ____ Medicine from the National University of Singapore before practising at the Singapore General Hospital.
P6 English SA2 2015 — Henry Park
Source: Henry Park, 2015
This P6 English SA2 paper from Henry Park (2015) covers comprehension, visual text and situational writing, grammar, editing and spelling, vocabulary and cloze passage across 80 questions worth 95 marks. Practise English the way it's tested at P6 level in Singapore, with step-by-step answers on LearnBuddy.
Q2
MCQ
1 mark
Mrs. Hamilah asked the porter, "My luggage ____ heavy. Could you help me carry the suitcases from the coach to the check-in counter please?"
Q3
MCQ
1 mark
At Singapore's first National Day celebrations at the Padang, the heavens ____ so the spectators took shelter where they could from the rain.
Q4
MCQ
1 mark
Serjit must have trained very hard to ____ the record for the 200 metres so easily.
Q5
MCQ
1 mark
"Can you please pass me ____ bag of rice there in the corner of the kitchen?" asked Mrs. Lim.
Q6
MCQ
1 mark
Please ____ with the delay. The movie will start once the projector has been fixed.
Q7
MCQ
1 mark
"My mother ____ dinner at this moment," said Fanny.
Q8
MCQ
1 mark
Kenneth and Milly can't make it to the play, ____ they?
Q9
MCQ
1 mark
"You must wait for me by the school gate after school ____ I come to pick you up," Father told Timothy.
Q10
MCQ
1 mark
Mr and Mrs Tan ____ very happy if their son agrees to accept the scholarship.
Q11
MCQ
1 mark
If you have plans to visit the museum, be sure to ____ at least an hour and a half for a complete experience.
Q12
MCQ
1 mark
The ____ actress demanded a change of personal assistant when she felt her requests were not carried out quickly enough.
Q13
MCQ
1 mark
The Singapore rugby team is a strong ____ for the gold medal at the next South East Asia Games.
Q14
MCQ
1 mark
Educardo Saverin has ____ a large fortune from the setting up of the social networking website Facebook.
Q15
MCQ
1 mark
The usually well-behaved students of 6 Goodness ____ in class when their teacher called in sick last week.
Q16
MCQ
1 mark
For each question from 16 to 20, choose the word(s) closest in meaning to the underlined words. It either raises fond or (16) irate memories to the departing tourist.
Q17
MCQ
1 mark
The (17) connoisseur will be delighted at its Thai cuisine, whether in the form of humble hawker dishes dished out at roadside stalls or the hot and spicy à la carte dishes served in the numerous restaurants.
Q18
MCQ
1 mark
Thai food, with its (18) delectable and widely contrasting flavours of sweet and spicy blended together, is very popular.
Q19
MCQ
1 mark
However, to savour this cuisine or pay a visit to the temples and shops, one may have to endure (19) stifling long traffic jams in busy streets with polluted fumes from countless vehicles.
Q20
MCQ
1 mark
Tourists, on the day of departure, give themselves at least a two-hour head start to the airport as the traffic jams are (20) infamous.
Q21
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The main purpose of the advertisement is to ____.
Q22
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Based on the advertisement, which of the following is true of the 28th SEA Games?
Q23
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
According to the advertisement, what is the reason for which the SEA Games was conceived? Luang Sukhum Nayapradit ____.
Q24
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
"We Want You!" is in a different font and font size from the rest of the advertisement to ____.
Q25
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Mark will only be available for training from 1 to 16 June 2015 due to his busy travelling schedule. He can volunteer to help out as a ____.
Q26
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The Spectator Service Officer will ____.
Q27
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
The word "prerequisite" under 'Performers for Opening Ceremony' means ____.
Q28
MCQ
1 mark
🖼 Visual
Which of the following statements is false?
Q29
Open-ended
1 mark
From the list of words (A–Q), choose the most suitable word for the blank. As a boy growing ____ in Edinburgh, Scotland, he would spend hours gathering botanical specimens.
Q30
Open-ended
1 mark
He even collected the skulls ____ small animals for his 'museum'.
Q31
Open-ended
1 mark
He was the second of three sons born ____ a Scottish Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his wife, Eliza Grace.
Q32
Open-ended
1 mark
The family had to speak to Mrs Bell ____ her ear tube – a horn-like contraption that amplifies speech.
Q33
Open-ended
1 mark
Alexandra found his own way of reaching her, discovering that she could pick out low tones ____ he spoke very close to her forehead in such tones.
Q34
Open-ended
1 mark
That set off his interest ____ acoustics, that is the study of the physical properties of sound and the way people hear things.
Q35
Open-ended
1 mark
He even spent a year devouring his grandfather's entire library ____.
Q36
Open-ended
1 mark
When he was nineteen, he wrote ____ impressive report on the transmission of sound using tuning forks.
Q37
Open-ended
1 mark
He also turned to the study of electricity and sought to transmit sound ____ multiple messages using musical tones of several frequencies through repeated experiments.
Q38
Open-ended
1 mark
By 9 October 1876, Alexander and his assistant, Watson, were able to talk by telephone over a 3-km long wire and on 25 January 1915, they chatted over a 5500-km long wire ____ New York and San Francisco.
Q39
Open-ended
1 mark
Editing for Spelling and Grammar — write the correct word for the underlined error. After the talk, a mida-age man in the audience stood up during the 'Question and Answers' session...
Q40
Open-ended
1 mark
You and I are about the same age and we write about the same teems.
Q41
Open-ended
1 mark
...have yet to publish any of my works. This is heartbreak to me.
Q42
Open-ended
1 mark
My spirit has been crushed by all the rejection and diseppoinmen.
Q43
Open-ended
1 mark
Richard Ford said in reply, "Sir, I feel so sorry to you."
Q44
Open-ended
1 mark
The audience froze. What kind of enkouragment was that?
Q45
Open-ended
1 mark
"I say this to you only because clearly writing was bringing you no satisfaction."
Q46
Open-ended
1 mark
...clearly writing was bringing you no satifraction.
Q47
Open-ended
1 mark
Leave this dream behind and go find something else to do with your life, something you love that will brought you reward and peace.
Q48
Open-ended
1 mark
There was a long silens.
Q49
Open-ended
1 mark
"However, if you should happen to discover, before a few years away from writing, that there is nothing you have found in the world that takes the place of writing in your life..."
Q50
Open-ended
1 mark
...nothing that inspire or moves you to the same degree that writing did.
Q51
Open-ended
1 mark
Comprehension cloze — fill in each blank with a suitable word. They had planned to ____ the day canoeing through the huge swamp.
Q52
Open-ended
1 mark
It was their first time venturing into the muddy waters where alligators ____ famed to roam.
Q53
Open-ended
1 mark
Joe had researched on what to do if they ____ with one — bang a paddle against the boat to scare it off, he had read.
Q54
Open-ended
1 mark
Just as Joe was standing in line to rent a canoe, he heard a splash, ____ by a loud scream.
Q55
Open-ended
1 mark
When Joe turned around to see what all the commotion was about, the ____ that greeted him was nothing short of terrifying!
Q56
Open-ended
1 mark
His son's right arm was in the jaws of an alligator which he ____ to be at least 2.4-metres long!
Q57
Open-ended
1 mark
Time seemed to stand ____ as Joe ran towards his son.
Q58
Open-ended
1 mark
As Alex thrashed about ____ screamed, Joe managed to wrap his arms around Alex's chest and began pulling him back towards the bank.
Q59
Open-ended
1 mark
With his right hand, Joe struck the snout of the alligator ____ hard as he could, but the alligator did not flinch one bit.
Q60
Open-ended
1 mark
However, Joe feared what ____ happen if he pulled Alex's arm too hard.
Q61
Open-ended
1 mark
He did not want to get into a tug-of-war ____ the alligator.
Q62
Open-ended
1 mark
Instead, he guided Alex up the embankment, pulling the alligator ____ with him.
Q63
Open-ended
1 mark
The young man ran forward and gave the alligator several hard kicks before it released its ____ on Alex and slithered back into the water.
Q64
Open-ended
1 mark
It was a miracle that despite the ordeal, Alex escaped with only a few cuts and scrapes ____ his wrist.
Q65
Open-ended
1 mark
Joe thought this incident would cause his son to be fearful ____ alligators yet Alex has shown quite the opposite reaction.
Q66
Open-ended
2 marks
Rewrite the sentence using the word(s) provided, keeping the same meaning. The weather was so hot that the flowers withered. (begin: The flowers withered ... as a result of)
Q67
Open-ended
2 marks
Mrs Tan asked Ali if he had handed in the form the previous day. (Convert to direct speech: "...?" Mrs Tan asked Ali.)
Q68
Open-ended
2 marks
She attended the ceremony. She was reluctant to do so. (begin: It was with)
Q69
Open-ended
2 marks
The doorman collects the ticket as Mr Lim enters the exhibition hall. (begin: The ticket)
Q70
Open-ended
2 marks
The scouts were tenacious. They succeeded in the challenge. (begin: Had it not been)
Q71
Open-ended
1 mark
In line 5, what does the word "magic" refer to? (1m)
Q72
Open-ended
1 mark
What was the "idea" that the narrator had in line 15? (1m)
Q73
Open-ended
2 marks
Why did the narrator start crying into the phone? (2m)
Q74
Open-ended
2 marks
Based on Paragraph 3, explain fully how the narrator managed to unhook the receiver. (2m)
Q75
Structured
2 marks
Give two incidents from lines 23-29 which made the narrator realise that he could count on his magical friend. (2m)
Q76
Structured
3 marks
Choose words from lines 29 to 34 which have similar meanings to the words below. (3m) — (a) shrill scream (b) shocked (c) recognisable
Q77
Structured
3 marks
Based on the passage, state whether each statement in the table below is true or false, then give one reason why you think so. (3m) — (a) The narrator's sister scared him often. (b) Pete rushed to the house upon hearing the children's cries. (c) "Information Please" was worried about the narrator.
Q78
Structured
1 mark
Write 1, 2 and 3 in the blanks below to indicate the order in which the events occurred in the passage. (1m) — ___ The narrator felt that the telephone was a magical device. ___ "Information Please" became a dependable friend. ___ The narrator thought that a person lived inside the telephone.
Q79
Structured
2 marks
Why was "Information Please" a unique and caring friend? (2m) — Quality: Unique / Caring; give a Reason for each.
Q80
Open-ended
3 marks
How did the narrator feel after the scare that his sister had given him? Support your answer with evidence from the passage. (3m)