P6 English SA2 2016 — Methodist Girls | Singapore Past Year Paper

Q: Parks these days are fitted with exercise equipment that provides everyone with opportunities ____ a good workout.

C. for. The noun 'opportunities' collocates with the preposition 'for' when introducing the thing the opportunity is about — 'opportunities for a good workout'.

Q: Mrs Tan hardly goes to the wet market, ____?

B. does she. 'Hardly' is a negative adverb, so the main clause is treated as negative and takes a positive tag in present simple — 'does she'.

Q: We ____ to deliver the parcel to John if we had known about his tight schedule.

D. would have helped. This is a third (past unreal) conditional: 'if we had known' pairs with 'would have helped'.

Q: Amanda was unwilling to go overseas to pursue her university education. She felt that four years ____ a long time to spend away from family and friends.

D. were. Per the official answer key the answer is 'were', agreeing with the plural 'four years' in a past-tense narrative ('She felt that...').

Q: Mr Wong heard a noise outside his house. He walked towards the door, ____ what made the noise.

D. wondering. A present participle ('wondering') forms a participle phrase describing the simultaneous action of walking.

Q: Nicholas found an old coin while he ____ for some pencils in his drawer.

C. was looking. The past continuous 'was looking' shows an ongoing action interrupted by the past simple event 'found'.

Q: The police searched the suspects for weapons but found ____.

B. none. As the object stands alone (no following noun) and is negative, the pronoun 'none' is required.

Q: Besides Abdul, his friends ____ to the library every Thursday.

A. go. The subject is plural 'his friends' and the habitual marker 'every Thursday' needs the present simple plural 'go'.

Q: ____ her busy schedule, Carin found time to take her Korean friends around Singapore.

B. Despite. 'Despite' is a preposition followed by a noun phrase ('her busy schedule') and signals contrast, unlike 'Although' which needs a clause.

Q: ____ one's emotions is something every child must learn to do as he grows.

D. Controlling. A gerund ('Controlling') functions as the singular subject of the sentence.

Q1 MCQ 1 mark

Parks these days are fitted with exercise equipment that provides everyone with opportunities ____ a good workout.

Q2 MCQ 1 mark

Mrs Tan hardly goes to the wet market, ____?

Q3 MCQ 1 mark

We ____ to deliver the parcel to John if we had known about his tight schedule.

Q4 MCQ 1 mark

Amanda was unwilling to go overseas to pursue her university education. She felt that four years ____ a long time to spend away from family and friends.

Q5 MCQ 1 mark

Mr Wong heard a noise outside his house. He walked towards the door, ____ what made the noise.

Q6 MCQ 1 mark

Nicholas found an old coin while he ____ for some pencils in his drawer.

Q7 MCQ 1 mark

The police searched the suspects for weapons but found ____.

Q8 MCQ 1 mark

Besides Abdul, his friends ____ to the library every Thursday.

Q9 MCQ 1 mark

____ her busy schedule, Carin found time to take her Korean friends around Singapore.

Q10 MCQ 1 mark

____ one's emotions is something every child must learn to do as he grows.

Q11 MCQ 1 mark

Mr Mathew was diagnosed with Beriberi which is a disease caused by a/an ____ of Vitamin B. The doctor advised him to start taking supplements.

Q12 MCQ 1 mark

My house is within close ____ to the supermarket. I can walk there in ten minutes.

Q13 MCQ 1 mark

Parents should not ____ their children by buying expensive gifts otherwise they will not appreciate the value of money.

Q14 MCQ 1 mark

Mr Ravi's business suffered a huge loss last year. Nonetheless, he continues to expand his business in the hope of ____ his losses.

Q15 MCQ 1 mark

Suling is grateful that her parents have ____ some money for her studies.

Q16 MCQ 1 mark

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word: 'James Horlicks studied pharmacy in England, where he developed a wheat and malt-based nutritional drink for infants.'

Q17 MCQ 1 mark

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word: 'Physicians endorsed it for infants and patients with digestive problems.'

Q18 MCQ 1 mark

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word: 'As a non-perishable and high-calorie food supplement, Horlicks was considered suitable for emergency packs.'

Q19 MCQ 1 mark

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word: 'Therefore, scientists began taking it on expeditions to the Polar regions.'

Q20 MCQ 1 mark

Choose the word closest in meaning to the underlined word: 'Later, it was acquired by a company called the Beecham Group.'

Q21 MCQ 1 mark 🖼 Visual

The main purpose of this flyer is to ____.

Q22 MCQ 1 mark

According to the activity 'Librarian for the Day!', the phrase 'Step into the shoes of a librarian' means ____.

Q23 MCQ 1 mark

Registration for the Digital Literacy Workshop can be done at the ____.

Q24 MCQ 1 mark

Based on the flyer, which one of the following statements is not true? Participants ____.

Q25 MCQ 1 mark

Mr Hendri is a retiree. Which two activities would he be able to participate?

Q26 MCQ 1 mark

The word 'rekindle' in the activity, 'Old School Games', refers to participants ____ when they take part in the activity.

Q27 MCQ 1 mark

If you want to redeem a free book light and a bookmark, you must ____.

Q28 MCQ 1 mark

What would be the main reason for the words 'JIGGLE, READ AND RHYME' to be in capital letters?

Q29 Open-ended 1 mark

From the word bank (A) all, (B) among, (C) and, (D) are, (E) as, (F) both, (G) but, (H) by, (J) during, (K) for, (L) into, (M) is, (N) of, (P) where, (Q) which, choose the most suitable word for the blank. 'The islands are quite remote and isolated, lying about 1 000 km west ____ the South American continent.'

Q30 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'The Galapagos Islands consist of 13 main islands and 6 smaller ones ____ together embrace about 50 000 km² of ocean.'

Q31 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'The Galapagos Islands are world-renowned ____ their unique and fearless wildlife.'

Q32 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'These islands are therefore very popular with natural historians, ____ professional and amateur.'

Q33 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'Giant tortoises, penguins, marine iguanas ____ different bird species can all be seen and approached by visitors.'

Q34 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'The landscape of the islands ____ relatively barren and volcanic ...'

Q35 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: '... relatively barren and volcanic ____ beautiful.'

Q36 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'There are many mountains on the islands and the highest mountain ____ them is Volcan Wolf.'

Q37 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: 'The Galapagos Islands were claimed by Ecuador in 1832. ____ the 19th and early 20th centuries, the islands were inhabited ...'

Q38 Open-ended 1 mark

Choose the most suitable word for the blank: '... the islands were inhabited ____ very few settlers.'

Q39 Open-ended 1 mark

Each underlined word contains a spelling or grammatical error; write the correct word. 'Do you remember a time when school badges were shiny and made of metal? That days, however, badges are more likely to be made of fabric ...' (underlined: That)

Q40 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'Those metal badges have ended up at flea markets, ____ shops at China Square ...' (underlined misspelling: anteek)

Q41 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. '... and online ____ platforms such as Carousell and eBay.' (underlined: shop)

Q42 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'Joseph Tay, 53, started his hobby of ____ secondary school badges ten years ago.' (underlined: collection)

Q43 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'He was ____ by them.' (underlined: inspiring)

Q44 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. '... the graphic designer ____.' (underlined misspelling: chuhkled)

Q45 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'Tay ____ has 160 secondary school badges lovingly arranged ...' (underlined misspelling: kurently)

Q46 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. '... lovingly arranged and stored in a ____ plastic folder ...' (underlined misspelling: buhljing)

Q47 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. '... stored in a bulging plastic folder in ____ order.' (underlined: alphabetic)

Q48 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'He ____ there are still about twenty missing like the one from Toh Tuck Secondary School.' (underlined: thought)

Q49 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'Among the gems in his ____ are those from defunct schools such as Tiong Bahru Secondary School.' (underlined misspelling: posesion)

Q50 Open-ended 1 mark

Write the correct word. 'Tay is ____ to put a price to how much he has spent on his hobby.' (underlined misspelling: riluctent)

Q51 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'First, she slowly dug a pit with her strong ____ flippers and then she continued to dig with her rear flippers to create a little chamber.'

Q52 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'the females would usually lay a nest of 120 eggs, go away for a fortnight and then ____ to lay their eggs again.'

Q53 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'This cycle would be ____ for about five times each season.'

Q54 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'Turtles have a high hatch rate on Heron Island ____ there are no predators like pigs or dogs to dig out the ____.'

Q55 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'there are no predators like pigs or dogs to dig out the ____. However, there are crabs which will puncture the eggs to suck out the yolk.'

Q56 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'Behind us, we ____ a soft cackling as the hatchlings broke out of their shells and dashed to the water.'

Q57 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'They were baby turtles - exact copies of their giant parents but much ____.'

Q58 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'We had to squint in the ____ to follow their progress to the sea and their new life.'

Q59 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'We were not allowed to ____ our torches when watching the hatchlings.'

Q60 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'The turtles have an amazing photographic memory which captures an ____ of the beach where they were born.'

Q61 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'Eventually, they will use that information to return to the ____ spot to lay their own eggs.'

Q62 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'We ____ the next afternoon swimming with the mother turtles in the shallow ____.'

Q63 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'We spent the next afternoon swimming with the mother turtles in the shallow ____.'

Q64 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'The guide's briefing was very clear - let nature take its ____.'

Q65 Open-ended 1 mark

Fill in the blank with a suitable word: 'we could tolerate only so much torment watching the delicate, beautiful creatures being eaten ____.'

Q66 Open-ended 2 marks

Rewrite the sentence using the word provided, keeping the same meaning. 'Mrs Ravi enjoys gardening but Mother does not.' Begin: Unlike ____

Q67 Open-ended 2 marks

Rewrite the sentence using the word provided, keeping the same meaning. 'All outdoor activities were cancelled because of the thunderstorm.' Use: resulted in

Q68 Open-ended 2 marks

Rewrite as direct speech, keeping the same meaning. 'Ali asked me what I had been doing since the previous day.' Begin: Ali asked me, " ____ ?"

Q69 Open-ended 2 marks

Rewrite the sentences as one, keeping the same meaning. 'The shadow had appeared suddenly. Tammy was frightened.' Begin: What frightened Tammy ____

Q70 Open-ended 2 marks

Rewrite the sentence using the word provided, keeping the same meaning. 'Every pupil has received his gift except Sean.' Begin: With the ____

Q71 Structured 1 mark

Based on paragraph 1, how do we know that Madam Wong was well-to-do? [1m]

Q72 Structured 2 marks

Fill in the table with the cause and effect of the following events in the story. The first one has been done as an example. [2m] (i) Cause: 'Some British official leaked out information that Singapore was the next target for the Japanese.' Effect: ____ . (ii) Cause: ____ . Effect: 'Madam Wong decided to get her groceries at another market.'

Q73 Structured 3 marks

Choose words from lines 14-22 which have similar meanings to the words below. [3m] (i) encouraged (ii) prevention (iii) unavoidable

Q74 Structured 1 mark

Which two-word phrase from lines 16-22 is used to describe the Japanese? [1m]

Q75 Structured 2 marks

What can you conclude about how the people were feeling about the possible Japanese invasion? Support your answer based on evidence found in paragraph 6. [2m]

Q76 Structured 2 marks

Why did Madam Wong cover her mouth with her handkerchief? [2m]

Q77 Structured 1 mark

What does 'the particular object' in line 27 refer to? [1m]

Q78 Structured 2 marks

Do you think the rickshaw man had a change in his attitude about taking Madam Wong to her destination? How do you know? [2m]

Q79 Structured 3 marks

Based on information found from lines 35-41, fill in the blanks in the following table. [3m] (i) Character: Master Wong — How the character felt at that point: ____ ; What made the character feel that way: ____ ; What the character did as a result: 'He scolded the servant for not buying groceries to cook a meal for him.' (ii) Character: Madam Wong — How the character felt: guilty; What made the character feel that way: 'Master Wong gave the servant a verbal lashing for not buying the groceries.'; What the character did as a result: ____ .

Q80 Structured 3 marks

Based on the story, state whether each statement in the table below is true or false, then give one reason why you think so. [3m] (i) The rickshaw man had reached Madam Wong's destination when she told him to stop. (ii) Master Wong was embarrassed that he had wrongly accused the servant. (iii) Madam Wong was guarded when she spoke to her husband about what she had seen earlier that day.

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