qp eng grade 6 sa ii 2012 2013 set 1 comp

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT II [2012-2013]

SUBJECT: ENGLISHCLASS : VI

ROLLNO TIME ALLOWED : 3 Hrs MAX. MARKS: 90 Candidates MUST write their Roll Number on the space provided above

before opening the seal.

Please check that the question paper contains 24printed pages.

Candidate must write the Code No of the question paperon the answer

book.

Please write down the serial numberof the question before attempting it.

15 minutestime has been allotted to read this question paper, the students

will read the question paper only and will not write any answer on the

answer script during this period.

General Instructions:

1]. There are 10 Questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

2]. Marks for each question are indicated against the questions.

3]. Section Acontains 2questions.

4].Section Bcontains 3 questions.

5].Section Ccontains 1 question.

6].Section Dcontains 3 questions.

7].You need colour pencils and a ruler for Section B.

8].Do not copy the questions. Write your answers only.

9].Do not use whitener / white fluid.

1/2Code No.

GIIS-ACA-PM-05/SAII/QP1/ENG6/150313



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EXAMINATION INSTRUCTIONS

Write your Roll Number, Class, section, subject, and Code number of question paper

on the answer sheet, additional sheet, Graph and map even if the paper is not

attempted. Write only the roll number on the question paper.

Readquestion paper carefully and Check the paper title.

Use only blue / Black pento write the answers. Use colour pensonly if instructed. Do

not use correction pen / whitener.

Mention the question number/ Sectionscorrectly while answering each question. No

marks will be awardedif the question number changes with regard to question paper.

All the queries related to the question paper must be completed within 30 minutes

from the beginning of exam.

Revise your answer and submit the answer paper along with graph, maps....etc., as

instructed before you leave the exam room.

You are not allowed to change your seat during the exam for any reason without

permission from your invigilator.

D paperto anybody else.

Avoid give-takeof a pen, pencil, scale etc.

Dear Candidate,

Rememberthe following:

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D on a question paper [ except roll number] , writing pad, compass,

body etc

You must not communicate with each other in any way in the examination room,

whether the exam is in progress or not. If you wish to talk to an invigilator, raise your

hand. If you wish to query an examination question you should raise your hand,

explain, and then work on other questions. If a correction to an examination paper is

necessary, you will be advised.

Conclusion of the examinationCandidate must cease writing immediately when instructed to do so and must remain

seated and silentuntil all answer books have been collected and the instruction to leave the exam

room has been given.

The Candidate who is in possession of any kind of

unauthorised materials [Used Unused], improper use ofmaterials, unauthorised removal of materials from

examination rooms and bringing in any unauthorised

materials to the examination room or ignoring the

instructions given by supervisors will result in the students

being marked zero in the respective subjects or being

debarred from all other examinations.

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SECTION A READING [25marks]

I. Read the following passage and answer the questionsthat follow.

The Inner Solar SystemBy Leslie Cargile

The inner solar system is the name of the terrestrial planets

and asteroid belt. Terrestrial is just a fancy way of saying

rocky. Like the Earth, terrestrial planets have a core of ironand rock.

At the center of the solar system is the Sun. The Sun is a big

ball of hydrogen powered by nuclear reactions. Massive

explosions are going on all of the time inside the Sun. Its

what makes the light every day and keeps our planet warm.

Light zips from the Sun to us in about eight minutes. The Sun

is the most massive thing in our solar system. It is so big you

could fit about a million Earths inside of it!

Closest to the Sun is the planet Mercury. You could squeeze

about eighteen Mercurysinside of Earth. It is made of mostly

rock, but it has a huge iron core and it generates a big




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magnetic field. Speedy little Mercury sails around the sun in

only eighty-eight days. Mercury was the messenger of the

gods in Roman mythology, known for his speed.

Second in line comes Venus, which is sometimes called

Earth's twin. It's about the same size as Earth, but thats

where the similarities end. Venus is always covered in thick

clouds full of sulfuric acid. They whip around the planet at

more than two hundred twenty mph. Violent winds shoot

sand made of silicate around Venuss very dry, arid surface.

The temperature averages nine hundred degrees, and the

pressures ninety times that on Earth. It takes two hundred

and twenty four days to orbit the sun. Like Mercury, Venus

was also named after a Roman Goddess, the Goddess of

love.

You know what planet is next. You live on it! Yup, the Earth is

number three. We have a rocky iron core at the center of our

planet. We have liquid water, and our air is made of mostly

nitrogen and oxygen. It takes three hundred and sixty-fivedays for us to circle the sun. We only have one moon.

Next to us in is Mars. Mars also has a core of rock and iron. It

is a little more than half the size of Earth. The most distinct

feature about Mars is its red color. Dust rich in iron oxide

covers the planet. Its sort of like the planet is rusting.Whitecaps at the poles are water, forever frozen because of




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the colder temperatures further from the Sun. The only place

the temperature rises above freezing is at the equator, or the

middle of the planet. Mars has two moons, Deimos and

Phoebe but they are much smaller than our own moon. It

takes nearly twice as long for Mars to circle the sun at almost

684 days.

The last part of the inner solar system is called the Asteroid

Belt. Its the line between theinner rocky planets and the

outer gaseous planets. Unlike the rest of the Inner Solar

System, the Asteroid Belt isnt a planet at all. It is a bunchof

large rocky chunks, mostly meteoroids. There's also a dwarf

planet named Ceres in the asteroid belt. The rest arent very

large.

The Earth is the only planet that we know of with life on it, but

universe is a big place. Much of our solar system is still a

mystery, there is still plenty to explore.

1. Choose the correct option: [ 1 Mark ]

a.Mercury is 18 times the size of Earth

b.Mercury is 1/18 the size of Earth.

c.Earth is 1/18 the size of Mercury.

d.Earth is 18 times smaller than Mercury.




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2. Which statement about the inner planets' orbits is true?

[ 1 Mark ]

a.Venus orbits the sun more quickly than Mercury.

b.Mercury orbits the sun more slowly than Mars.

c.Earth orbits the sun more quickly than Venus.

d.Mars orbits the sun more slowly than Earth.

3. What two types of gas make up most of Earth's

atmosphere? [2 Marks ]

4. According to information in the article, where would you

find water on Mars? [2 Marks]

5. How long does it take light to travel from the sun to the

Earth? [1 Mark]

6. Which would be the most appropriate nickname for

Venus? [1 Mark ]

a.the cold desert planetb.the first inner planet

c.the windy planet

d.the triple mooned planet




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7. Fill in the missing letters to create a word from thearticle. [3 Marks ]

a.___ i ___ ___ ___ ___ r ___ ___ ___ e ___

clue: likenesses

b.___ ___ ___ a ___ ___ r

clue: an imaginary line around the center of a planet

c.___ a ___ e ___ u ___

clue: made of gas

d.___ r i ___

clue: lacking water or rainfall

e.___ e ___ ___ ___ s ___ ___ ___ a ___

clue: rocky

f.___ ___ ___ r ___ ___ e ___

clue: most abundant gas on Earth

II. Read the following passage and answer the questionsthat follow.

Can You Hear Me Now? A study Unit on Cell phonesIntroduction & History

Since the dawn of time, people have found

ways to communicate with one another.

Smoke signals and tribal drums were some of

the earliest forms of communication. Letters, carried by

birds or by humans on foot or on horseback, made it




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possible for people to communicate larger amounts of

information between two places. The telegraph and

telephone set the stage for more modern means of

communication. With the invention of the cellular phone,

communication itself has become mobile.

For you, a cell phone is probably just a device that you or

your friends use --to keep in touch with family and friends,

take pictures, play games, or send text messages. The

definition of a cell phone is more specific: it is a hand-held

wireless communication device that sends and receives

signals by way of small special areas called cells.

Walkie-talkies, telephones, and cell phones are duplex

communication devices: they make it possible for twopeople to talk to each other. Cell phones and walkie- talkies

are different from regular phones, because they can be

used in many different locations. A walkie-talkie is

sometimes called a half-duplex communication device,

because only one person can talk at a time. A cell phone is

a full-duplex device because it uses both frequencies at the

same time. A walkie-talkie has only one channel. A cell

phone has more than a thousand channels. A walkie-talkie

can transmit and receive signals across a distance of about

a mile. A cell phone can transmit and receive signals over

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In 1973, an electronic company called Motorola hired Martin

Cooper to work on wireless communication. Motorola and

Bell Laboratories (now AT&T) were in a race to invent the

first portable communication device. Martin Cooper won the

race and became the inventor of the cell phone. On April 3,

1973, Cooper made the first cell phone call to his opponent

at AT&T while walking down the streets of New York City.

People on the sidewalks gazed at Cooper in amazement as

he walked down the street talking on his cellular phone.

Coopers phone was called a Motorola Dyna-Tac. It

weighed a whopping 2 pounds (as compared to todays

cell phones that weigh as little as 3 or 4 ounces).

After the invention of his cell phone, Cooper began

thinking of ways to make the cell phone available to the

general public. After ten years, Motorola introduced the first

cell phones for commercial use. The early cell phone and its

service were both very expensive. The cell phone itself cost

about $3,500.

In 1977, AT&T constructed a cell phone system and tried it

out in Chicago with over 2,000 customers. In 1981, a

second cellular phone system was started in the

Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. It took nearly 37

years for cell phones to become available for general

public use. Today there are more than sixty million cell




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phone customers with cell phones producing over thirty

billion dollars per year.

Parts of a Cell

Phone

A cell phone is not as complicated as you might think. Most

cell phones have only seven major parts: a circuit board, an

antenna, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a keypad, a

microphone, a speaker, and a battery.

Thirty years ago, these parts would have filled the entire

floor of an office building. Today they fit into a package

small enough to rest in the palm of your hand.

The circuit board is the most important part of a cell phone

because it contains the computer chip. One section of the

chip performs high-speed calculations. Another section of

the chip has a microprocessor that handles the commands

that you give the cell phone when you press keys on the

keypad.

Cell phones have tiny speakers and microphones that arevery powerful. As the size of the cell phone decreased, so

did the size of the cell phone battery.




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How Cell Phones

Work

When you speak into a cell phone, it picks up your voice

and changes the sound waves in your voice into radio

waves. The radio waves then travel through the air to a

receiver at a station or tower. The tower sends your call

through a series of networks or cells until it reaches the

person that you are calling,When you receive a call on your

cell phone, the message travels through a cellular network

until it reaches a tower or base station near your cell phone.

The base station then sends out radio waves that are picked

up by a receiver in your cell phone. The radio waves are

then changed back to the sound of a voice. A cell phone

can transmit and send signals over hundreds of miles. A cell

phone operates within cells, so that as you move from one

place to another, the signal is passed from one cell to

another. This is how someone using a cell phone can drive

hundreds of miles and hold a conversation during the entiretrip.

1. What does the microprocessor portion of the computer

chip do? [ 2 Marks ]




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2.How did people react to Martin Cooper as he talked on

his cell phone while walking down the streets of New

York City? [ 2 Marks ]

3.How does the size of the first cell phone compare with

the size of cell phones today? [ 2 Marks ]

4. How many major parts do most cell phones have?

[ 2 Marks ]

5. Why is the circuit board an important part of a cell

phone? [ 2 Marks ]

6.What happens when you speak into a cell phone?

[ 2 Marks ]

7. What are the two differences between walkie-talkies and

cell phones? [2 Marks ]

SECTION B WRITING [20 marks]

III.You are the Secretary of the Technology Society of your

school. You have been asked to inform students of class 5

to 8 about an Educational visit to a Computer-producing

Factory. Draft a notice to be put up on the School Notice




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Board, with all the necessary details. Let your notice look

attractive. [ 6 Marks ]

or

A lady decides to shop for a sari in a shop. The salesman

asks for her choice and shows her many saris. Write a

dialogue of six exchanges between the two.

IV. You have secured the first place in an essay writing

competition. The prize was a trip to Africa where you

took part in a safari and saw the wildlife there. Write an

emailto your friend sharing your experience. Write

about 150 words. [ 6 Marks ]

V. You and your parents visited Malacca last week. Write a

letterto your brother in Australia telling him about the

place and what you and your parents saw and did there.Write about 150 words. [ 8 Marks ]




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SECTION C GRAMMAR [20 marks]

VI. Do as directed:

A) Write the other degrees of comparisons for the

words given in the box. [ 5 Marks]

Positive Degree Comparative Superlative

(1) nice

(2) black

(3) dirty

(4) sad

(5) terrible

B) Read the sentence and write which word class each

underlined word belongs to. (PARTS OF SPEECH)

[ 5 Marks ]

1. You have to believe in yourself if you ever expect to be

successful at something.

2. We left for the mountain just before six in the morning.

3. We first went to the store to buy a few things.

4. We had a breakfast at a caf near the rail station.

5. My friend wasn't strong enough to lifthis heavy rucksack.




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6. I helped him carry it.

7. The weather was very cold.

8. My friend said, "Oh! What a cold weather!"

9. We didn't spend the night there.

10. We got back home late at night but we didn't go to

sleep immediately. We were very hungry.

C) Choose the best phrasal verbs from the given box

and fill in the blanks. [ 5 Marks ]

Passed away, do without, made up, break out, keep

up, carried away, run out, look forward to, called off,

put up with

1. Don't smoke in the forest. Fires______easily at this

time of the year.

2. I_____seeing my friends again.

3. I'm afraid; we have______of apple juice. Will an orange

juice do?

4. Your website has helped me a lot to____the good work.

5. A friend of mine has__________her wedding.

6. His mother can't_______his terrible behavior anymore.

7. As an excuse for being late, she_______a whole story.

8. I got___________ by his enthusiasm.




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9. I just cannot___________my mobile. I always keep it

with me.

10. She was very sad because her father______last week.

D) Rewrite the passage and fill in the blanks with the

most suitable word. [ 5 Marks ]

Clouds and Rain

The heat from the Sun warms the Earths (a) ______.This causes the warm air near the ground to (b)________. As

the air rises, it cools and the moisture(c) ________ into

clouds of water droplets. The highest clouds are the cirrus

and they may reach a (d)_______of 12,000 meters.

The tiny water droplets in a cloud (e)____ to become

larger droplets and these(f) _______ back to the Earth as

rain. Rain (g)_______ water for animals and plants. When

the water droplets are (h) ______ agitated electric current

may be created and this (i) ______ in lightning.

A rainbow is (j) ______ when sunlight is refracted

several times over by the tiny raindrops.




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SECTION D LITERATURE [25 marks]

By Daniel Nguyen

Born 1999, M, from Wichita, KS, UnitedStates

VII

The Origin of The Resistance

Tyranny, dictation. The world of mankind ended, and a new era

begun. During the apocalypse many have died, and few have

survived and most who have survived have become deformed

and mutated. I am one of the last of mankind. A few years

afterwards, aliens and machines traveled to Earth in search of

the famous Intergalactic form of matter, Oxygen. We have

become endangered; our civilization destroyed, and now

humans are just refugees, and others, unfortunately, slaves.

We struggled to survive, and finally decided to revolt. We

crafted weapons out of old machine parts, and we trained

intensely. The day finally came, the Civil War! We hid in the

forest as the Machine and Alien Empires marched to fight

against one another. Once the battle began we struck! But, we

did not succeed. Many lives have been lost, but we all fought

our best. I alone as the last survivor retreated and was haunted

by being a coward. So I plotted to conquer territories and

assassinate rulers. My first target, X-02, a business tycoon

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Corps, X-02's business building, I stumbled upon a robot still in

good shape, I turned him on. It turns out he was a Soldier Bot,

but unlike the others, he was friendly so I recruited him in the

resistance and together we were an army of two!

Answer the following questions:

1.What happened to the world of mankind? [1Mark]

2.What were the aliens searching for? [1Mark]

3.Describe the revolt? [1Mark]

4.Why was the survivor haunted? What did he do? [1Mark]

5.How did he gather his army? [1Mark]

VIII. Read the poem and answer the questions:

Bird of Dreams

At night in dream I travel from my bed.

On wing of light I soar across vast skies

Where colors swirl and dance, and mingle and soar,To far beyond the veil, where Phoenix flies.

The Phoenix is a wondrous bird of dreams.

Each five hundred years she builds a nest,

Piling feathers, branches, twigs, and leavesNow will she lay her eggs and sit to rest?




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But no! The Phoenix strikes a

blazing spark

And sets her cozy nesting

place afire!

She dives in flight into the

dancing flames!

Why does she go into the flaming pyre?

There is no need to weep, for all is well.

For her the pyres fiery heat and flame

Burn away the years. She is reborn!

Her radiant, shining youth she doth reclaim.

The pyre burns down to ash, and all is still.

And from the ashen pile, her eyes alight,

The Phoenix rises up into the sky,

Renewed, with feathers luminous and bright!

And so this night, perchance my dreams will go

With wondrous Phoenix rising in the sky,

To soar among the planets and the stars,

Deep in the night to fly and fly and fly!




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1. Which words from the first and last stanzas tell the reader

that these stanzas are written in the first person? [1Mark]

A. Phoenix, sky

B. night, dreams

C. beyond, across

D. I, my

2. In this poem, what is both destructive and creative?

[1Mark]

A. fire

B. ash

C. light

D. air

3. The Phoenix could best represent a person who:

[1 Mark]

A. makes a promise and then breaks it.B. loses everything and starts over.

C. wants only to be carefree and have fun.

D. lives a life of habit and routine.




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4. Which words from the poem are intended to provide a

sense that the poem was written long ago?

[1 Mark ]

A. soar, fly

B. branches, twigs

C. flame, burn

D. doth, perchance

MOON GAME

I am the moon and I play a game

I don't always look the same.

Sometimes I'm round, a silver sphere.

Sometimes just half of me seems to be here.

Sometimes I'm a crescent, shaped like a smile.

Sometimes I surprise you and hide for awhile!

Look up in the sky for my friendly light --

What shape will I be when you see me tonight?

IX Answer the following:

1.What is the rhyme scheme? [ 1 Mark ]

2.What is the reason for the game? [ 3 Marks ]

3.Why does the moon want us to look up? [ 2 Marks ]




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X: Read the selection, and then answer the question that

follow.

(1)It's quiet on the prairie. The only thing Lone

Shadow can hear is the beating of his heart. A few

butterflies silently swoop down to rest on tall

grasses that spread out as far as the eye can see.

Above, a few fluffy white clouds float in an endlessblue sky. A gentle breeze drifts past Lone Shadow's

ear. Suddenly, there's movement in the grass

ahead!

(2)A frightened deer leaps past Lone Shadow's

shoulder and races off toward a small clump of

trees. Then he hears it . . . a rhythmic sound like his

heartbeat, only louder! The ground begins to

tremble. He looks toward the horizon and sees a

swirling cloud of dust heading his way! Quickly he

turns and runs. The noise gets louder and the dust

thicker, so thick he can taste it! Just as he jumps

into a deep ditch, a thundering herd of buffalo

rushes past.

(3)Once the herd has moved on, Lone Shadow walks

to the place where he had been standing. There's a




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musty smell in the air above the grass, which is now

flat. "That could have been me!" he says. Quickly

he runs back to camp to tell the tribal leaders about

the buffalo. . . . There will be a hunt tonight!

A How did the author use sensory words to help

readers visualize the character, setting, and events?

Give at least one example from the text for each

sense. [10 marks]

a. Sight

b. hearing

c. touch

d. smell

e. taste

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