ection! __ Reading Comprehension (30% 15 20 25 World our views about museums | Over the mination: Write ¥ iy ind? Dull, boring, monotonous, ten, Museums All iting exal 11] Imagine this as a question in a writing &% 200 words. What adjectives have popped up in your ™ + Educational, info ~ Pethapg Jet fil in those 200 words because yy, rmative, overly academic, . time-wasting... perhaps a bit too negative’ not be ab! you will have nothing to talk about and will : ere, Following change 8 in society, misery, is seldom go to these places, let alone like going th 1 exhibitions for one to vj ‘cool’ ex! vi nowadays have also become different with a wider range of *¢00 Stang learn more. ' ople as they are b [2] Museums all over the world are becoming more attractive 10 PeOP Fe ong avineing evidence that exhibitions coy, more interesting. This statement can be supported by co! ard of the Bread SO many unusual topics just waiting for you to discover. Have you hei Museu in Germany? How about the Lunchbox Museum in the U.S.” The weirdest example would bg the Toilet Museum in India. These exhibitions provide their visitors with wider choices in thing, to see and lear, For example, by understanding the history of instant noodles in a Japanese museum, visitors may have a better understanding of Japanese popular culture. Hence, they are more open-minded to new cultures because of this deepened and widened understanding. [3] Despite the new yet “bizarre” exhibition topics, modern museums are still sacred places for visitors to acquire knowledge in different aspects. They retain the function of showcasing collections of different kinds of objects in daily life. As research efforts are made, these are also the places where serious academic debates can be sparked off and where children can satisfy their curiosity in knowing how ancient people made their ends meet, where they lived and how they solved problems in everyday life. Museums showing specific topics like bread, wine or others can then provide another perspective for visitors to think, to analyze and to perceive things, Museums are still “treasure boxes” waiting for people to open them. [4] However, there is still an unresolved question — why do many people still choose to goto museums instead of doing other things? The change in demand, or in other words, the change in30 35 40 Part A mindset is important in accounting for such a change. Nowadays many artefacts can be seen online. By clicking on photos and videos of artefacts, people do not really have the need to get inside exhibitions and to appreciate the real ones, With respect to this, a survey shows that better-educated people are also more frequent museum-goers. Their roles have also changed. They no longer are passive information receivers, but active explorers of knowledge. They want {0 be exposed more to real historical remnants, and discover innovative ideas and thoughts about a certain research topic all by themselves. Electronic entertainment may be funny, but the life-like dummies are more intriguing for the children who crave going to the museums. Overall, interaction between people and history (or the past culture, or anything shown) is growing stronger. (5] Next time when you tell your parents that you are interested in a particular exhibition in the Science Museum or the Space Museum, they will be pretty much astonished but impressed. This is actually a good start! Put down your phones and other electronic gadgets, discover anything that you find interesting and observe more in different museums in Hong Kong and all over the world! Long Questions (6%) Read the above passage and answer the questions in complete sentences. Why does the writer think that some people may not be able to answer the writing examination question in paragraph 1? (1 mark) What can people leam in the museum introducing instant noodles in Japan? (1 mark) ‘What is the function of modern museums? (1 mark) According to paragraph 4, how can people appreciate artefacts nowadays? Suggest two ways. (2 marks) According to paragraph 4, what is the role of the frequent museum-goers? (1 mark)(6%, 1 m; Part B Pronoun Referencing “® Find what the following phrases refer to in the passage. 1 they (line 8) 2. they (line 14) 3. these (line 18) 4. their (line 20) 5. ones (line 28) 6 Their (line 29) 9 Part C Find the Word (6% 1 mary Find word(s) in the passage with similar meanings to the following. Meaning Paragraph 1. Not ordinary 2. Quick 2 3. Activated (two words) 2 4. The desire to know something : 5. Not answered - Part D True or False Questions 3%, 1 mark@) Look at the following statements. Write T for true and F for false. 1, The writer thinks that people in Hong Kong generally have negative feelings for museums, 2. Museums with bizarre exhibitions introducing bread and toilets are meaningless. 3. Better educated people go to museums less often.Part E Multiple Choice Questions (3%, 1 mark@) ver the follow : Answer the following questions by filling in the character which represents the BES’ T answer, 1. Inparagraph 1, what does the writer want to suggest? A. Museums are boring and tedious, B. People now: i ple nowadays think that going to museums does not suit their interests. c There is too much information in museums. D. People only go to museums when they have no other things to do. 2, If museums are “treasure boxes”, what does it have? A. Artefacts B. Thoughts C. Money and jewellery D. Knowledge 3. What is the tone of the final paragraph? A. Encouraging B. Commanding C. Reporting D. Thoughtful Part F Summary Cloze (7%, 1 mark @) Below is the summary table for the whole passage. Fill in the blanks with suitable words and make sure that the answers form grammatical sentences. Survey report: Why people are attracted to museums Reasons Explanations / Evidence There are many topics that you will not Museums 1. people. = = find. Mi I fe Children can 4. Stead at coe debates after watching exhibits ina 3, knowledge. eerie museum. — Instead of receiving 6, : ns they want to bee more 7, in 5 discovering knowledge.‘vie Edlab Publishing Section lIl__Usage (70%; Part A. (15%, 1 mark@) Tenses Change the form of verbs in the brackets > How does the Singaporean Government attract visitors? showing that the Lion City Many of my friends 1. (visit) Singapore, ‘ sitors to stay there. Sparked by —_______ (be) very successful these days in attracting vl their joyful experience, 13, (decide) to visit it on my own during the last Lunar New Year holiday and I must say I was pretty much impressed by their promotional strategies during my stay, To start with, It’s talk about my first impressions about Singapore. The size of the city i ng, Another common feature that I 5. "—____(seem) more or less the same with Hong Kor (be) the high density. However, I Jy different way since they -_____ (observe) is that there 6. think the two cities 7,____ (develop) in a complete! . (become) de-colonised. Singapore provides all that a family needs ~ safety, hygienic conditions and convenient transportation, making it more competitive than Hong Kong. Regarding all these advantages, I think that the tourism board 9. (mustplan) for so long and 10. (make) lots of efforts to boost the development of industries, Both the software, like services and people, and hardware, like theme parks, 11. (coordinate) so well in order to give visitors memorable experiences. However, the wild park and other attractions that I 12. _ (visit) 13 (be) not very interesting but very suitable for families. Back in Hong Kong, our government 14. (consider) how to introduceGerund, To- art infinitive ang Bare i p Infinitive (15%, 1 mark@) pill in the blanks with the most “PPropriate form of the words given in the brackets eg. Afer jogging for halfan hour, she sat down 1p cake (take) a rest American ¢ ‘ustomers’ payments by credit card The use of credit carc ‘ds has been common among customers in Hong Kong, ranging buy) j i from 1. __ (buy) just a carton of milk in the supermarket to 2. (pay) tuitic it ca a huge sum for tuition fees. Credit card services have also become so diverse that they are an ive way 3. alternative way —— (ele) transactions by cash. Recently, a survey in the U.S.A. Ameri i revealed how Americans decided 4, (use) credit cards rather than cash. Americans are used to 5. (deal) with different transactions. The use of credit cards seem 6, (be) acceptable everywhere in America. For example, tat- too shops in the U.S. are like local grocery stores in Hong Kong where the accepted payment methods are notes and coins. Instead of 7, (check) the bills in cash, Americans use credit cards for these kinds of local services, like & (tattoo). However, a credit card offer comparer, Ellen Canon, warns us 9. (clear) debts owed to credit card companies immediately. She says that many Americans are tempted 10. (purchase) big-ticket items, like cars. “11. (do) the math and 2. (see) whether you will have enough money at the end of the month for payment, Otherwise, you will end up 13. (get) penalized with high interest rates. Ifyoudonothope 14. _(risk) additional charges, 15__ (deposit) money to credit card accounts can also be a solution.”