2022 3EL Monfort

Name: ______________________________ ( ) Class: _______ SECONDARY 3 EXPRESS ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1184/01 Paper 1 Writing [Section A] 28 September 2022 (Wednesday) 1 hour 50 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Answer Section A in the spaces provided. At the end of the examination, fasten your work securely together and submit the Section A, Section B and Section C separately. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the head of each section. The total mark for this section is 10. The total mark for this paper is 70. FOR EXAMINERS’ USE ONLY SECTION A 10 This document consists of 2 printed pages. Setter: Mr Casimir Kang MONTFORT SECONDARY SCHOOL END-OF-YEAR EXAMINATION 2022

2 Section A [10 marks] Question 1 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about the prehistoric fish, the coelacanth . The first and last lines are correct. For eight of the lines, there is one grammatical error in each line. There are two more lines with no errors. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick (✓) in the space provided. If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. Examples: I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. at My mother always wears sensible clothes. ✓ The primitive -looking coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years later. But its discovery in 1938 by a South 1 …………..……… African museum curator on the local fishing trawler fascinated the world 2 …………………... and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe -finned fish fit into the 3 ………………….. evolution of land animals. There are only two known species of the fish: 4 ………………...... one that liv es near the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa, and 5 ………………….. one found in the waters o ff Sulawesi, Indonesia. Many scientists belief 6 ………………….. that the unique characteristics of the coelacanth represented an early step 7 ………………….. in the evolution of fish to terrestrial four -legged animals like amphibian . 8 ………………….. Coelacanths are elusive, deep-sea creatures, living on depths up to 2,300 9 ………………….. feet below the surface. They can be huge, reach es 6.5 feet or more and weighing 198 pounds. Scientists estimate they can live for over 60 years. 10…………………. Adapted from: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/coelacanths

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