Section D

[15 marks]
Question 32 is based on the following passage. Choose the best answer to fill in each blank.
Tanjong Rhu is a simple (i)______ profound story about the relationship between Mr. T.W. Li, a rich
(ii)_________ in the shipping business and his mother (Ah Ma). Mr Li has his office at Shenton Way
and is modern in his ways and ideas. His mother is traditional with strong religious (iii)_______ and
practices ancestor worship religiously. They have a close relationship although Mr Li does not seem
to realize it. The day (iv)_________ Ah Mas funeral, Mr Li recalls the day he (v)_______ his mother
about using binoculars or see-far glasses. While he wants her to have (vi)________ vision with the
binoculars, she however, (vii)_________ to see her husbands shipyard in Tanjung Rhu with the
binoculars. She uses them but does not see anything. (viii)_________, she tells Mr. Li she sees his
childhood days when they enjoyed (ix)________ on Tanjung Rhu beach in her minds eyes. Mr. Li
cannot (x)_________ all these details and wants to ask Ah Ma further. But , she (xi)________ very
sick and is unable to talk much. She manages to (xii)________ the urgency of a hidden key to the
altar (xiii)______ she draws her last (xiv)__________. He promises to (xv)__________ this last wish
of hers. But, he is unable to find the key.
i.

A. but
B. and
C. yet
D. or

vii.

A. hoping
B. hope
C. is hoping
D. hopes

ii.

A. businessman
B. fisherman
C. apprentice
D. owner

viii.

A. How ever
B. Instead
C. Therefore
D. Thus

iii.

A. believe
B. beliefs
C. believing
D. belief

ix.

A. walking
B. walked
C. walks
D. have walked

iv.

A. before
B. during
C. while
D. after

x.

A. remembered
B. remembers
C. remembering
D. remember

v.

A. tell
B. told
C. has told
D. was telling

xi.

A. becoming
B. becomes
C. has became
D. became

vi.

A. better
B. good

xii.

A. convey
B. conveyed

C. best
D. bad

C. is conveying
D. conveys

xiii. A. before
B. after
C. during
D. when
xiv. A. wish
B. view
C. breath
D. death
xv.

A. convey
B. deliver
C. guide
D. fulfill

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