DEPARTMENT FOR CURRICULUM,

LIFELONG LEARNING AND EMPLOYABILITY

Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes Track 3
Educational Assessment Unit
Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2021

YEAR 9 ENGLISH TIME: 2 hours

Name: ___________________________ Class: _____________

Marks
Oral Assessment Listening Comprehension Written Paper Total

SECTION A: LANGUAGE 15 marks

A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets. The first
one (0) has been done for you. (5 marks)

It (0) wasn’t (be not) my usual holiday experience: (1) _______________

(stand) on the beach and getting ready (2) _______________ (release) a baby
sea turtle no bigger than my hand. Before booking my holiday, I (3)
_______________ (see) many online videos of tourists freeing turtles in the sea
and that was exactly how I (4) _________________ (decide) to spend my last
night once I was in Mexico. The event (5) ____________________ (organised)
by Oscar who (6) _________________________ (work) as a zoologist up till a
year ago. Since then, he (7) _______________________ (save) sea turtles that
are under threat from poachers who want their meat and eggs. At a signal from
Oscar, we gently placed them on the sand, stepped back, watched as they crawled
slowly into the sea and vanished beneath the waves. Back home, I still think of
the tiny baby turtle and wonder where it is now. (8) _______________ it
_______________ (make) it to the open sea? Oscar has dedicated his life to
saving sea turtles while I (9) ____________________ (only give) a few minutes
of my time but they (10) _______________ (stay) with me for a lifetime.

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B. Fill in the blanks with correct word formed from the word in brackets.
The first one (0) has been done for you. (5 marks)

Convincing someone to change their mind is really the process of convincing them
to change their tribe. If they abandon their (0) beliefs (believe), they run the
risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect someone to change their mind if you
take away their community too. Nobody wants their worldview torn apart if (1)
_______________ (alone) is the outcome. The way to change people’s minds is
to become friends with them, to integrate them into your tribe, to bring them into
your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being (2)
_______________ (social) abandoned. The British (3) _______________
(philosophy) Alain de Botton suggests that we should even share meals with those
who (4) _______________ (agree) with us: “Sitting down at a table with a group
of strangers has the incomparable and odd benefit of making it a little more
difficult to dislike them. For all the large-scale (5) _______________ (politics)
solutions which have been proposed to solve ethnic conflict, there are few more
(6) _______________ (effect) ways to promote tolerance between (7)
_______________ (suspicion) neighbours than to force them to eat supper
together.” Perhaps it is not difference, but distance that breeds (8)
_______________ (hostile). As people come closer together, so does (9)
_______________ (understand). I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln's quote, “I
don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” Facts don't change our minds,
(10) _______________ (friend) does.

C. Fill in the blanks with one appropriate word. The first one (0) has been
done for you. (5 marks)

Amazon, which is considered (0) one of the Big Four tech companies in the world,
is working (1) _______________ rules about technology that can recognise a (2)
_______________ ’s face. Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, says that his company is
working on these rules that he (3) _______________ to present to Congress.
Bezos believes that facial (4) _______________ has many advantages, but there
is also danger that it can be (5) _______________. Critics worry that this
technology could lead to discrimination and violation (6) _______________
human rights. Last February, Amazon released rules for the new technology, (7)
_______________ could become a part of federal legislation. The technology
must protect civil (8) _______________ and all activities must be transparent.
This is (9) _______________ as transparency builds trust and makes employees
feel that they are working for a company with (10) _______________ ethical
standards.

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