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Page 1 of 2 SECONDARY 4 COMMON TEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Insert 1128/01 27 April 2022 (Wednesday) 1 hour 50 minutes CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Do not turn over the page until you are told to do so. Write your name, class, and index number in the spaces provided above. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction tape. This Insert contains Section A. Write your answers in the spaces provided. . This document consists of 2 printed pages including the cover page. Section B Section C Total 70 For Examiner’s Use Section A [Turn over

Page 2 of 2 at ✔ Section A [10 marks] Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about the interesting facts about a banana. The first and the 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 my destination at 2 pm. ……………….. My mother always wears sensible clothes. ……………….. The humble banana almost seems like a miracle of nature. Colourful, nutritious, and much cherish by children, monkeys and clowns, it has a favoured position in the 1 …...……… planet’s fruit bowls. A banana is vitally important in many regions of the tropics, 2 ….……….. where different parts of the plant is used for clothing, paper and tableware. The fruit 3 …………… itself is a dietary staple; people across the globe appreciate the soft, nourishing flesh, 4 ….............. the snack-sized portions, or the easy-peel covering that conveniently changes colour 5 .................. to indicate ripe. Although bananas grow together in a cluster, the individual fruit sits 6 .................. comfortably in the human hand, readily detached from their companions. Indeed, 7 .................. it seems almost purposely designed for human consumption. The banana, although, 8 .................. is a freakish and fragile genetic mutant; one that has survived between the centuries 9 .................. due to the sustained application of selective breeding by diligent humans. Its cheerful 10 ................ appearance hides a fatal flaw that threatens its glory: it cannot reproduce by itself. Copyright Acknowledgements: Section A © Adapted from ‘Life of the Banana’, http://www.bharatexpedition.com/2010/05/life-of-banana.html to

Page 1 of 4 SECONDARY 4 COMMON TEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Writing 1128/01 27 April 2022 (Wednesday) 1 hour 50 minutes CANDIDATE NAME CLASS IND