ENGLISH EXAMINATION OF NORMAL LEVEL

ENGLISH EXAMINATION OF NORMAL LEVELbased on all NORMAL LEVEL ENGLISH LOCAL EXAMINATIONS General Test of Education Normal Level Paper 1 – GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY For Examination from 2008 No

ENGLISH EXAMINATION OF NORMAL LEVEL

based on all NORMAL LEVEL ENGLISH LOCAL EXAMINATIONS

General Test of Education Normal Level

Paper 1 – GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY For Examination from 2008

No Additional Materials are required

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your Centre number, index number and name on all the work you

hand in

Write in dark blue or black pen

You may use a soft pencil for any rough working

Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid

Answers all questions.

You may not use dictionaries nor English books.

Each part will include its instruction

The number of marks is given in the brackets [ ] at the end of each

question or part question

For Examiner’s Use

Turn over

Part 1

- This part is compulsory You must answer all questions printed below.

- In each question, there is one space provided Choose the word or phrase which

best completes the space.

- Write the number of your chosen answers in the spaces (………) provided.

1 One of the of a good teacher is patience with her students

[ 1 ]

(1) factors (2) characteristics (3) characters (4) attitudes

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2 The doctor’s hard work in the discovery of a cure for the fatal illness

[ 1 ]

(1) concluded (2) heightened (3) climaxed (4) culminated

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3 Kitty is very with the Japanese language

[ 1 ]

(1) knowledgeable (2) accustomed (3) intimate (4) familiar

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4 I was at the sight of the huge amount of gold and jewellery I discovered in

(1) shocked (2) stupefied (3) surprised (4) petrified

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5 Many teenagers nowadays are rather obsessed with keeping up with in

6 You are to send a passport-sized photograph along with this form

[ 1 ]

7 My grandmother has a large collection of porcelain dolls

[ 1 ]

8 He searched everywhere for his missing daughters but his efforts were

[ 1 ]

9 The policemen had a hard time trying to order during the riot

[ 1 ]

11 It is against my to cheat other people’s money for self gain

[ 1 ]

(1) principals (2) principles (3) habits (4) beliefs ………

12 The list of books for the students this year has just been

[ 1 ]

(1) reviewed (2) renewed (3) revised (4) changed

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13 Despite his , he still managed to be a medallist swimmer

[ 1 ]

(1) nobleness (2) disability (3) ablation (4) inception

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(1) finished (2) abated (3) exhausted (4) delayed

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15 The police caught the thief and his

[ 1 ]

(1) comrades (2) contacts (3) associates (4) consorts

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Part 2.

- This part is compulsory You must answer all questions printed below.

- In each question there is a mistake of grammar, spelling, etc.

- Find the mistakes by underlining them.

- Correct the mistake in the space provided.

1 For my opinion, I will take these three ideas So far there are no better ideas

[ 2 ]

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2 I am looking forward to go to Australia this Christmas [ 2 ]

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3 The cave, obviously, enlarged the sound of the teacher [ 2 ]

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4 Cotton is one of the most common fibre to be used to make clothes

[ 2 ]

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5 Nitrogen and oxygen are too important that most living organisms cannot survive

without these elements [ 2 ]

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6 Jim Thorpe, a football, track, and baseball stars from Pennsylvania, is considered

by many to be the greatest all-around athlete of modern times

[ 2 ]

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7 For centuries waterwheels were the only sources of power aside from human and

animal strong [ 2 ]

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8 Proteins form the most of the structure of the body and also act as enzymes

[ 2 ]

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10 Many of the science fiction publications by Ray Bradbury display a desire to

rebel against society’s depend on machines

[ 2 ]

………

11 The age of a geological sample can be estimated from the ratio of radioactive to

non-radioactive carbon present in the object is examined

[ 2 ]

………

12 Dams vary in size from small rock barriers to concrete structures many feet

height [ 2 ]

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13 I like pure milk which milks from cattle grown by my father on the field

[ 2 ]

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14 ‘Where is the bus stop?’ – ‘I think it locates somewhere nearby that store.’

[ 2 ]

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15 I felt myself great after having a bath for 20 minutes [ 2 ]

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Part 3.

- This part is compulsory You must answer all questions printed below.

- There will be one sentence which includes an underlined part for each question

Your aim is to choose the most suitable word to replace the part and to write its number

in the space (………) provided.

1 Her drug therapy was terminated due to her experience of seeing something that

was not there

(1) mirage (2) imagination (3) hallucination (4) vision ………

2 Peter’s wife was very shocked and upset by the news of his assassination

(1) devastated (2) despaired (3) depressed (4) destroyed

………

3 The city population has become larger as more people move in from the rural

areas

(1) boomed (2) augmented (3) expanded (4) increased

………

4 He was punished by being ordered to pay a sum of money for drunk driving

(1) fined (2) arrested (3) bailed (4) sentenced

………

5 The speech which he delivered before the dinner was not planned

(1) improper (2) impromptu (3) impressive (4) accidental

………

6 He made a very sudden and quick move when his name was mentioned

(1) jumped (2) jerked (3) twitched (4) shivered

………

7 The First Lady possesses qualities of kindness and dignity

(1) attributes (2) tributes (3) features (4) contributes

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8 President Lincoln decided to put an end to slavery

9 The information given by our client is supposed to be kept as a secret

(1) confident (2) mysterious (3) confidential (4) concealed

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10 The river near the industrial area has been made dirty

(1) trashed (2) stained (3) contaminated (4) corrupted

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