KERTAS PERCUBAAN PMR

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ENGLISH (SET 2)
PAPER 2
TIME : 1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

Section A

You are advised to spend 40 minutes on this question.

Wednesday - rain -nightfall -electricity – thunderstorm - sat - living - candles

Ali and I – walk – rain - Mother – unhappy - allowed - We promised - careful -

avoid - open fields

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walking – streets - silhouette - distance - suspiciously - Mr. Simon’s house -
break in

who - man - really dark - Ali - home - dad – incident - came back - watched -
dad - apprehend the thief.

dad - caught - figure, - electricity - restored. - ‘thief’ - Mr. Simon - laughed –

misplaced - keys - thanked - concern - house.

When writing your composition:

* use all the notes given.

* elaborate on the given notes to make it more interesting
* make sure it is not less than 120 words.

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 Section B
You are advised to speand about 30 minutes on this question.
Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

Thunder is the sound that lightning makes. This sounds simple but we
need to know why does lightning make a sound. Any sound you hear is made
up of vibrations, and the vibrations travel through the air as waves until they
reach your ear. This means lightning must cause some vibrations.

Lightning is a huge discharge of electricity. When lightning strikes

huge amounts of electricity shoot through the air, thus causing two things to
happen. The electricity hits the air and starts it vibrating, and as you know,
anything vibrating creates a sound. The lightning is also very hot and heats up
the air around it causing it to expand. As lightning is very hot the air expands
very quickly and pushes against the air particles starting another vibration.

These vibrations are what you are hearing when you hear thunder.
The rumbling of thunder is caused by the vibration or sound bouncing off the
ground and the clouds.

We see lightning before we hear thunder because light travels faster

than sound. The light from the lightning travels to our eyes much quicker than
the sound from the lightning so we hear it later than we see it.

Adapted: www.SimpleSciences.com

Write a summary on how thunder is formed.

Your summary must

* not be more than 60 words, including the 10 words given below.
* be in continuous writing (not in note form)
* be written in ONE paragraph.

Use your own words as far as possible without changing the original meaning.

Begin your summary as follows:

Thunder is a sound that accompanies lightning, and it is.....

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 Section C

You are advised to spend about 20 minutes on this question.

Novels
1 Potato People - Angela Wright
2 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
3 The Phanton of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
5 The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope Hawkins

Based on one of the novels above, write a synopsis of the story.

Give evidence from the novel to support your answer.

Your response should be:

- in not less than 50 words

- in continuous writing (not note form)

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 ANSWERS

Section A
Last Wednesday it rained really heavily. By nightfall the electricity had
gone of due to the thunderstorm. We sat in our living room with candles as
our only source of light.
Ali and I decided to take a walk despite the rain. In fact, we loved
playing in the rain. Mother was not happy, but she allowed us to go. We
promised her that we would be careful and avoid the open fields. We ran out
of the house with joy.
As we were walking through the streets, I spotted the silhouette of a
man a short distance from us. He was acting suspiciously in front of Mr.
Simon’s house. The man was trying to break into the house!
We still couldn’t make out who the man was as it was really dark. Ali
ran home and told dad about the incident. Both came back and Ali and I
watched as dad moved in to apprehend the thief.
Just as dad caught hold of the figure, the electricity was restored. To
our shock, the ‘thief’ was Mr. Simon himself. We all laughed as Mr. Simon told
us that he had misplaced his keys on his way home. But he thanked all of us
for our concern with regards to his house.

Section B
Thunder is a sound that accompanies lightning, and it is made
up of vibrations that travel through the air as waves. When lightning strikes
huge amounts of electricity shoot through the air hitting the air and it vibrates.
It also heats up the air around it causing it to expand, pushing the air particles
that starts another vibration, creating thunder.
60 WORDS

Section C
The novel that i have chosen to write about is The Phantom of The
Opera by Gaston Leoux. The story takes place in the year 1880 at the Paris
Opera house in France. The central character in this novel is the disfigured
Erik, also known as the Phantom of the opera.
Erik, due to his looks is discarded by his parents. To make matters
worse, society shuns him as well. This leads him to move and he becomes a
famous builder. He has a gift in that he is an excellent illusionist.
Unknown to anybody, Erik builds a secret house at the lake underneath
the opera house. Under the cloak of the Phantom, he terrorizes the people
above him.
One of those people is Christine, the beautiful opera singer who Erik
falls in love with. Erik makes contact with Christine and teaches her to sing.
Eventually obsession overwhelms Erik, and he kidnaps Christine.
Raoul is the young gentleman who is in love with Christine as well, and
she loves him too. Raoul goes to rescue Christine but falls for the trap set by
Erik.
Christine agrees to marry Erik in return for Raoul’s safety. She kisses
Erik on the lips, and this moves him to the point that he lets them both go. He
then disappears. It is said that Erik died of a broken heart.
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