CGSS PRELIM 2022 EL Paper 1 Question Booklet_final

CEDAR GIRLS’ SECONDARY SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2022 Secondary Four © CEDAR 2022 1128/01/S4/PRELIM/22 CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1128/01 Paper 1 Writing Candidates answer in the Question Booklet. Additional Materials: Insert 25 August 2022 1 hour 50 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and index number on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer both Section A, Section B and one question from Section C. Write your answers in the spaces provided in the Question Booklet. The Insert contains the text for Section B. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the head of each section. For Examiner’s Use Section A /10 Section B Task: Lang: /10 /20 Section C /30 This document consists of 12 printed pages and 1 Insert. [Turn over

2 © CEDAR 2022 1128/01/S4/PRELIM/22 Section A [10 marks] Question 1 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about Japanese cherry blossoms. 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 springtime flowering of the cherry blossom trees is such a big deal in Japan that they are daily reports on them in the national news, and 1 ........................ festivals are held for their honour across the country. As soon as the 2 ........................ flowers bloomed on the trees, family and friends gather beneath them 3 ........................ for picnics, turning parks and gardens into sites of mass outdoors 4 ........................ celebrations. When do cherry blossoms bloom in Japan? Every year is 5 ........................ different and there are many variations. Although there are multiple 6 ........................ cherry blossom varieties, each coming into flower at a slight different 7 ........................ time and lasting for various periods of time. The earlier blooms 8 ........................ tend to appear in tropical Okinawa in January, and the last on the 9 ........................ northern island of Hokkaido in May. A national meteorological office 10