4Exp Prelims EL P1 2021 Answer Key

EXP/ N(A) PUNGGOL SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY 4/5 EXPRESS/NORMAL ACADEMIC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION ANSWER KEY NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER English Language Paper 1 Writing 1128/01 19 August 2021 1 hour 50 minutes This paper consists of 2 printed pages and 0 blank page. Section A [10 marks]

2 Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines, about space travel by commercial companies. 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 2pm. at My mother always wears sensible clothes. ✔ Historically, space has been a domain that solely belonged to the military or to governments and our respective space agencies, like NASA and 1 the Russia’s Roscosmos. In recent years, there has been a paradigmatic 2 paradigm shift, with more and more private companies made a name for themselves 3 making by putting a spacecraft in space. Instead of building all the hardware 4 ✔ itself, NASA has turn to the private sector to help reduce costs and 5 turned spur innovative. The United States space agency is reaping the fruits of 6 innovation that labour now with commercial crews and cargo programme. Although 7 programmes billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson are 8 and current capturing headlines, it was other billionaire named Peter 9 another Diamandis who took the first significant step towards opening up space 10 ✔ to commercial players in the late 1990s. (Passage adapted from https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7/13/billionaires-and-their-spaceships-what-next-for-space-tourism) ---------- End of Answer Key ----------