SMK KINABUTAN, TAWAU

PENTAKSIRAN ALTERNATIF PERTENGAHAN TAHUN

FORM 4 / 2021

1119/1
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ONE HOUR THIRTY MINUTES
PAPER 1 : READING 1 JAM 30 MINIT

ARAHAN:
1. Tulis nama dan kelas anda pada kertas jawapan calon yang disediakan.
2. Kertas soalan ini mengandungi lima bahagian yang terdiri daripada 40 soalan.
Jawab semua soalan.
3. Baca arahan bagi setiap bahagian dengan teliti.
4. Bulatkan atau tulis jawapan anda pada kertas jawapan yang disediakan.
5. Serahkan kertas soalan ini kepada pengawas peperiksaan selepas tamat ujian.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Write your name and class on the answer sheets provided.
2. This question paper consists of five parts with 40 questions. Answer all questions.
3. Read the instructions for each part of the paper carefully.
4. Circle or write your answers on the answer sheet provided.
5. At the end of the examination, hand in this question paper to the invigilator.

Prepared by : Checked by : Verified by :

_______________ _____________________________ ________________________

(PANG FUI MEE) (ANDI SYAZANA BT.BONGKASA) (MUSRIATI BT. MUSTARIN)
Subject Teacher Head of English Panel Head of Language Department

This question paper consists of 10 printed pages including the cover page

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Part 1 (Questions 1-8)
Read the text carefully in each question. Choose the best answer A, B or C.
For each question, mark the correct answer A, B or C on your answer sheet.

Drama series : Desperate Housewives : 9TV, 10.30 pm

Remember Paul? The seventh season opens with the residents of
Wisteria Lane discovering that Paul Young is out of prison and back in
the neighbourhood with an enigmatic wife. Starring Felicity Huffman
and Vanessa.

1. From the write up, we can conclude that Paul Young

A. used to live in Wisteria Lane
B. has been married before
C. does not get along with his neighbours

LONDON: British Prime Minister Maitlands Ozil unveiled the newest recruit to
Downing street: Larry with a “very strong predatory drive” for hunting rodents. The four-
year-old tabby joined Maitlands and his family from London’s Battersea Dogs and Cats
Home to tackle pest control issue after a rodent was spotted on the steps of the most
famous front door in the land.

2. Larry was recruited as a

A. family pet
B. rat catcher
C. pest

Five killed when car ploughs into parade

BEIJING: Five people were killed and five injured when a car ploughed into a parade of
revelers watching a traditional dragon dance in eastern China. The Xinhua News Agency
said the driver fled the scene of the carnage but was detained early yesterday.

3. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The driver lost control of the car.
B. Those injured were caught off-guard.
C. The driver turned himself in the following day.

Women who eat little or no meat are less likely to be overweight compared to their
more carnivorous peers. The findings suggest that replacing meat and other animal
products with plant-based fare may help people control of their weight and lead a much
healthier life.

4. What would be a suitable heading for the text?

A. Vegetarians are lightweights.
B. Meat eaters are heavyweights.
C. Vegetarian women are lighter than women meat eaters.

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 Moktee Airline Low Fare Tips
Don’t travel when everyone else is. Go to Langkawi or Penang before or after a major
festival. Not only will the flights be cheaper but the lines will be shorter, too. You may
also fly on the day of the festival when everyone is already there (and the flight
attendants are extra nice).

5. Which of the following is not advised by Moktee Airline?

A. Travel before a major festival.
B. Travel at the same time as everyone else.
C. Travel when the fare is cheaper.

What is BUTIR? It is an economical and effective method to increase rear-end visibility of

motorcycles. The BUTIR sticker, placed on the back of motorcycle, is expected to increase the
visibility of other drivers towards motorcyclists, especially during the night.
BUTIR is visible from a distance of 300 metres. USE BUTIR!

6. How can the use of BUTIR help to reduce accidents?

A. It increases the visibility of other drivers towards motorcyclists from a long distance at
night.
B. It increases the visibility of other drivers towards motorcyclists from a short distance at
night.
C. It increases visibility from a short distance.

Audit Clerk
*Minimum SPM *Able to work independently* Computer literate-MS Office * Good
command of spoken and written English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Apply with personal details and curriculum vitae to: Human Resource Manager, Hajijah Enterprise
Sdn Bhd, Taman Uda 43000 Selayang (only short-listed candidates will be notified)

7. Which statement best describes the advertisement?

A. Suitable candidates will be called for an interview.
B. Candidates must attend a computer course.
C. Candidates must e-mail personal details and curriculum vitae to Human Resource
Manager.

KUALA LUMPUR: The flood situation in most of the affected states in the peninsula is
improving with fewer evacuees at relief centres yesterday morning. The situation has returned to
normal. Water level in the rivers, which had earlier surpassed the danger level, had receded and
was below the alert stage. Most of the relief centres in these states were closed as evacuees have
returned home.

8. Which would be a suitable heading for the news report?

A. Flood situation improving, fewer evacuees
B. People returning- situation normal
C. Flood water receding

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Part 2 (Questions 9-18)
Read the passage below and choose the best word for each space. For each question, mark the correct
answer A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

WORLD EARTH DAY AT ZOO NEGARA

Zoo Negara (0)__has___ lined (9)_____ a list of exciting events for World Earth Day.
Over 100 volunteers will help green the zoo with a variety of trees and plants in conjunction with
the (10)_____ for the World Earth Day celebration ‘Call for Climate’.
The planting activity is open to volunteers aged 18 and above. The majority who have
signed up are teenagers and young adults, (11)_____ that many youngsters (12)_____ serious
efforts to help preserve the Earth. The volunteers (13)_____ from 8.30 am to noon.
To ensure that children also take part in the celebration, Zoo Negara is organising a
colouring competition themed, ‘Wildlife and the Environment’ at the show arena at 3.30 pm. An
exhibition titled ‘Tips to Save the Earth’ will be held at the main entrance until the end of the
month with the aim of educating visitors (14)_____ their role in (15)_____ the Earth.
A series of talks to promote awareness (16)_____ the need to preserve and conserve the
environment will be held at the Tunku Abdul Rahman Theatre from noon to 4.00 pm. Among the
topics which will be highlighted at the seminar will be ‘Climate Change’, ‘The Status of
Malaysian Rivers’ and ‘Wetlands are not Wastelands’.
The opening of the (17)_____ aquarium will also be held. Based on the theme, ‘A Journey
through the Malaysian River’, the aquarium will be the country’s first and only education facility
to provide (18)_____ knowledge on the Malaysian wetlands ecosystems.

0. A has B. have C. had D. is

.
9. A. in B. up C. on D. out

10. A. subject B. theme C. themed D. topic

11. A. shows B. showing C. show D. showed

12. A. is taken B. are taken C. is taking D. are taking

13. A. will be worked B. will work C. will be working D. will working

14. A. on B. for C. at D. in

15. A. preserves B. preserving C. preservation D. preserve

16. A. for B. on C. at D. in

17. A. zoos’s B. zoos’ C. zoo D. zoo’s

18. A. in-deep B. on-deep C. in-depth D. on-depth

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Part 3 (Questions 19-26)
Read the text below and answer the following questions. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D. For
each question, mark the correct answer A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

1 It is perhaps the most reproduced, recycled and ripped off image of the 20th Century.
Che Guevara, his eyes framed by heavy brows, a single-starred beret pulled over his unruly hair,
stares out of the shot with glowering intensity. It's now more than 50 years since the Argentine-
born rebel was shot dead, so any young radicals who cheered on his revolutionary struggles in
Cuba and Bolivia are well into middle age.

2 But the image has been infinitely repeated - emblazoned on T-shirts and sprayed on to
walls, transformed into pop art and used to wrap ice-creams and sell cigarettes - and its appeal has
not faded. "There is no other image like it. What other image has been sustained in this way?"
asks Trisha Ziff, the curator of a touring exhibition on the iconography of Che. "Che Guevara has
become a brand. And the brand's logo is the image, which represents change. It has becomes the
icon of the outside thinker, at whatever level - whether it is anti-war, pro-green or anti-
globalisation," she says.

3 The unchecked proliferation of the picture - based on a photograph by Alberto Korda in

1960 - is partly due to a political choice by Korda and others not to demand payment for non-
commercial use of the image. Jim Fitzpatrick, who produced the ubiquitous high-contrast drawing
in the late 1960s as a young graphic artist, said he actively wanted his art to be disseminated.
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"I deliberately designed it to breed like rabbits," he says of his image, which removes the
original photograph's shadows and volume to create a stark and emblematic graphic portrait. "I
was determined that the image should receive the broadest possible circulation," he adds.

5 For Ms Ziff, Che Guevara's murder also marks the beginning of the mythical image. "The
birth of the image happens at the death of Che in October 1967," she says. "He was good-looking,
he was young, but more than that, he died for his ideals, so he automatically becomes an icon."

6 The story of the original photograph, of how it left Cuba and was carried by admirers to
Europe before being reinterpreted in Mr Fitzpatrick's iconic drawing, is a fascinating journey in its
own right. Alberto Korda captured his famous frame on 5 March 1960 during a mass funeral in
Havana. A day earlier, a French cargo ship loaded with ammunition had exploded in the city's
harbour, killing some 80 Cubans - an act Fidel Castro blamed on the US. Korda, Fidel Castro's
official photographer, describes Che's expression in the picture, which he labelled "Guerrillero
Heroico" (the heroic fighter), as "encabronadao y dolente" - angry and sad. Unpublished, the
picture was seen only by those who passed through Korda's studio, where it hung on a wall. One
man who brought the image to Europe was the leftist Italian intellectual, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli,
who distributed posters across Italy in 1967. After that, Korda's photograph made an appearance
in several European magazines. Mr Fitzpatrick first came across a tiny version of it in the German
weekly. Only months later, when he finally got his hands on a larger version of the photograph,
was he able to produce the image that has such universal appeal. "I'd got an original copy of the
image sent to me by a guy involved with a group of Dutch anarchists, called the Provo.

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7 After Che Guevara's death, an outraged Mr Fitzpatrick furiously reprinted originals of the poster
and sent it to left-wing political activist groups across Europe. Part of his fury stemmed from
vivid memories working behind a bar in Ireland as a teenager, and seeing Che walk in. The
revolutionary was briefly exploring the homeland of his Irish ancestors during a stopover on a
flight to Moscow. "I must have been around 16," Mr Fitzpatrick remembers. "It was a bright,
sunny morning. I knew immediately who he was. He was an immensely charming man - likeable,
roguish, good fun and very proud of being Irish."

8 Mr Fitzpatrick's version of Che arrived on the continent as many countries were in a state of
flux, says Ms Ziff. "His death was followed by demonstrations, first in Milan and then elsewhere.
Very soon afterwards there was the Prague Spring and May '68 in France. Europe was in turmoil.
People wanted change, disruption and rebellion and he became a symbol of that change."

9 As time went on, the meaning and the man represented by the image became separated in
the western context, Ms Ziff explains. But in Latin America, she points out, Che Guevara's face
remains a symbol of armed revolution and indigenous struggle. Combining capitalism and
commerce, religion and revolution, the icon remains unchallenged, Ms Ziff says. "There is no
other image that remotely takes us to all these different places."

source: BBC News

19. In paragraph 1, how does Che appear in the famous image?

A. he seems content
B. he’s not looking at the photographer
C. he’s wearing something around his neck
D. he looks clean-cut and tidy

20. In paragraph 2, according to Trisha Ziff, who does the image represent well?
A. ice-cream and cigarette sellers
B. those supporting military intervention
C. ones who may be looking for revolutionary change
D. the poorest generations

21. In paragraph 3, what didn’t the graphic image’s creator try to make money out of its use?
A. he didn’t need the money
B. to help its spread
C. he considers profit to be ‘anti-revolutionary’
D. he didn’t know it was being used without permission

22. In paragraph 6, where was the original photo in the years after it was taken?
A. in the possession of the photographer
B. on the tour throughout Europe
C. in Fidel Castro’s office in Havana
D. it remained undeveloped
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23. In paragraph 8, what persuaded Jim Fitzpatrick to create the image?
A. ambition
B. greed
C. sadness
D. anger

24. In paragraph 8, what is the meaning of the word “flux”?

A. chaos
B. war
C. change
D. struggle

25. In paragraph 9, what is the meaning of the word “indigenous”?

A. native
B. expatriate
C. migrant
D. adventitious

26. From paragraph 9, what is Ms Ziff’s point at the end?

A. the image created revolutionary change in Europe
B. the image’s legacy lasts because it means many things to many people
C. the image is used to sell many things in Latin America
D. the image is losing its appeal in the West.

Part 4 (Questions 27-32)

You are going to read a story. Six sentences have been removed from the passage. Choose from the
sentences (A-H) to fit each gap (27-32). There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use.
For each question, mark the correct answer (A-H) on your answer sheet.

The Dog Boy

Are you afraid of dogs? Dogs can be scary. Large dogs can jump up on you and knock you
down and a harmless-looking small dog can bite. But a dog expert from the USA, Cesar Millan has
been able to handle even the most difficult and dangerous dogs since he was a child.
If you've ever seen Millan on his daily four-hour walk with around 40 dogs, you might almost
believe that Millan speaks their language. The dogs obey his every command. Perhaps that is why
people call him a "dog whisperer". 27. In fact, Millan claims he understands the way a dog's
mind works.
His philosophy is simple. He says that dogs are descended from wolves and they think in the
same way. Wolves are social creatures that live in groups. In every pack of wolves there is one special
wolf that all the others obey. 28.
Unfortunately, few people understand this basic fact about dog psychology, so Millan has to
train the owners to communicate properly with their pets. What does this mean? For a start, it means
letting the dog know you're their boss - not their best friend or their parent. 29. Instead, the dog

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really needs lots of exercise and clear rules in order to behave well and you can give it love and
affection only after the dog obeys you.

It was as a child in Mexico that Millan first became interested in dogs. While growing up, he
used to spend time on a farm where he watched dogs working with cows. Milan was fascinated by
how intelligent the dogs were and later, when he was 15, he got a job helping out in a vet's office.
30. Millan realised he had a special gift and he began to dream of going to Hollywood and
becoming a famous dog trainer.
Millan was in his 20s before he finally managed to reach America. 31. Later, he got a
job working in a place that takes care of dogs and people began to notice that Millan had a way with
dogs. Soon more and more people began asking him to help them out with their pets. His first real
break came when Hollywood actor Will Smith asked Millan for a hand with his dog. The actor and his
wife were so impressed with Millan that they recommended him to all their friends.
Today, Millan has achieved his dream. He has his own dog psychology centre, he's the author
of a well-known book and he has his own popular television show called “The Dog Whisperer".
32. ( "A lot of people don't realise I've been working with dogs for more than 20 years - long
before my TV show or book," he says. "Success followed me because I was following my dream of
being the best dog trainer in the world."

A. How does Millan feel about his success?

B. Lots of people are and with good reason.
C. At first, he spoke no English and he had to take any job he could find.
D. The teenager was so good at handling dogs that people started calling him “el perrero”-Spanish
30.
for “the dog boy”.
E. According to Millan, in many countries, especially in America, owners tend to be too loving
and treat their dogs like children.
F. However, it is important to use the proper method when walking your dog.
G. This is the name given to people who have a special ability to communicate with dogs.
H. Apparently, like their wild ancestors, dogs will only respect and obey their owners if they
respect them as their leaders.

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Part 5 (Questions 33-40)
Read the four letters that neighbours have written and answer the questions that follow. Write your
answer in the space provided on your answer sheet.

Villiers Terrace

Great things come in small packages! This studio flat would suit a single first-time buyer or possibly a
property investor looking to build up their portfolio. Large living area with fold-down bed. A modern
kitchen has recently been installed and there's gas central heating available. The bathroom has a power
shower. Owning this great flat also comes with a secure space in the building's underground car park
with 24-hour security. A green paradise can also be found in the form of a communal garden,
including fountain and barbecue area. The building is currently pet-free. Full ownership available plus
options for shared ownership for first-time buyers in their twenties. Possibility to buy adjoining roof
terrace in the future. Only a short walk from excellent bus and train connections: a commuter's
paradise!
Baker Street

Large Victorian house with great potential as a large home or, subject to planning permission, as a
conversion into three or four apartments. The house boasts a new boiler and central heating
throughout. Excellent Victorian features throughout this property, including three large original
fireplaces, make this a property to aspire to. There are three large double bedrooms, each with an en
suite. The twenty-five metre garden allows you to enjoy the outdoor life. The area's three most popular
schools, one junior and two secondary, can all be found within a five-minute walk of this property.
Book your viewing today to avoid disappointment.

Penny Lane

Your prayers have been answered! Wonderful opportunity to own this former church, now a spacious
three-bedroom house. Elegant windows throughout the property allows light to flood in. Outside,
enjoy the low-maintenance garden with parking for up to three cars. The house has excellent
environmental credentials with underfloor heating, double glazing and solar panels installed on the
roof. This property will actually save you money! There are natural wood floors throughout the
property and brand new granite worktops in the American-style kitchen.

Yellow Brick Road

Two-bedroom terraced house with a deceptively large interior and a fantastic south-facing garden that
makes this property a bargain. Hurry or miss it! Open plan living with a vast kitchen-dining room.
Excellently located for the shops and entertainment of the town centre. You will have your own
parking space right outside your front door. Good potential for an attic conversion, once the required
permission has been granted. The house is situated in an excellent residential area with a large park
around the corner and several local shops within a short walk. Call today and don't miss out!

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Using the information on the four different properties, select the most suitable property for each
question below.

A - Villiers Terrace
B – Baker Street
C – Penny Lane
D – Yellow Brick Road

No. Question Property

33. Which property has nothing written about its future
potential?

34. Which property could easily be transformed into multiple

smaller properties?

35. Which property is likely to be the cheapest to run,

considering its size?

36. Which property has nothing mentioned about how

comfortable it might be during a cold winter?

Questions 37 -40
Complete the notes below using information from the text. Choose no more than one word from the
passage for each answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

• A huge (37)_____ allows Vincent and Amy to walk their dog and go jogging in Baker Street.
• The residents of Villers Terrace are strictly prohibited from owning a (38)_____ .
• In Yellow Brick Road, Mr Salman is thinking to transform his empty (39)_____ space into a
bedroom.
• A systematic and integrated (40)_____ link allows the resident of Villiers Terrace to move
around town easily.

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