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    ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL & COLLEGE - FAISAL

    General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level


    Final Examination 2021

    STUDENT Roll
    NAME Number
    _______________________________________________________________________

    Subject: English
    Class: O-I
    Date: __________
    Max Marks: /50

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL & COLLEGE – FAISAL


    O-LEVEL SECTION
    Turn over
    Question 1
    Read the Passage, Hortense, in the Insert and answer all the questions below.

    From paragraph 1

    1 (a) As a child, what did the writer want to do when he became an adult? [1]

    (b) Why did the writer think he was ‘an exceptionally lucky person’ (line 2)? [1]

    From paragraph 2

    2 (a) The writer brought into the house ‘every conceivable type of creature’ (line 6).

    Give the phrase used later in the paragraph which conveys the same meaning. [1]

    (b) The family comforted each other with the thought that the writer’s hobby ‘was just

    a phase I was passing through and that I would soon grow out of it’ (lines 7–8).

    Explain in your own words what the family felt about his hobby. [1]

    From paragraph 3

    3 (a) Why could the writer’s school friend no longer look after Hortense? [1]

    (b) What two signs were there of the school friend’s ‘desperation’ (line 17) to be rid of

    Hortense? [2]

    From paragraph 4

    4 (a) In what two ways was the writer’s decision to take Hortense not wise? [2]

    (b) In what way can we tell that the writer wasn’t sure his mother would allow him to

    take Hortense? [1]

    From paragraph 5

    5 (a) Hortense had ‘a pair of horns with a forest of lethal-looking spikes, and he was

    about four feet high’ (lines 27–28). Give one word from the paragraph which shows a

    surprising contrast between his appearance and his behaviour. [1]

    (b) Why do you think the writer was in a hurry to thank the boy and his father? [1]

    (c) What do you think the writer’s brother feels about animals? [1]
    From paragraph 7

    6 Explain in your own words what the writer means when he describes Hortense

    as ‘astonished by the havoc he had created’ (line 44). [2]

    From paragraph 2 - 7

    7 For each of the words below, write the letter (A, B, C or D) which has the same

    meaning that the word has in the passage.

    Total Marks for this part : 20

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