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GRAMMAR SECTION
10. A monster was chasing a princess when the prince arrived [arrived/was
arriving/were
arriving]
11. When the programme _was beginning_______ [was beginning/were
beginning/began/] , the chef wasn't cooking
WRITING SECTION
READING SECTION
IV. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. Refer
to the text to check your answers when appropriate. Mark the correct letter A,
B, C or D on your answer sheet (25 Marks)
Cinderella
Once upon a time, there (20) ______ a beautiful girl named Cinderella. Her
mother was dead and her father had (21) _______ a widow with two daughters,
who treated Cinderella very badly. She was only allowed to sit for a while by the
fire, near the cinders. That’s why everybody called her Cinderella.
One day, they were invited for a grand ball in the king’s palace. (22) _______
Cinderella’s stepmother (23) _______ not let her go. Cinderella was made to sew
new party gowns for her stepmother and stepsisters, and curl their hair. They then
(24) _________ to the ball, leaving Cinderella alone at home.
Cinderella felt very sad and began to cry. Suddenly, her fairy godmother appeared
and said:
- But I don’t have a gown to wear for the ball – cried Cinderella
The fairy godmother waved her magic wand and changed Cinderella’s old clothes
into a beautiful new dress. The fairy godmother (26) _______ touched Cinderella’s
feet with the magic wand. And she had beautiful glass (27) ________!
The fairy godmother found six mice playing near a pumpkin, in the kitchen. She
touched them with her magic wand and the mice became four shiny black horses
and two coachmen and the pumpkin turned into a golden coach. Cinderella was
overjoyed and set off for the ball in the coach drawn by the six black horses. Before
leaving. the fairy godmother warned her:
- Cinderella, this magic will only last until midnight! You (28) ________ reach home
by then! -
(29) _________ Cinderella entered the palace, everybody was struck by her
beauty. Nobody, not even Cinderella’s stepmother or stepsisters, knew who she
really was in her pretty clothes and shoes. The handsome prince also saw her and
fell in love with Cinderella. He went to her and asked her to dance with him.
The prince danced with her all night and nobody recognized the beautiful dancer.
Cinderella was so happy (30) ________ with the prince that she almost forgot what
the fairy godmother had said. At the last (31) _________, Cinderella remembered
her fairy godmother’s words and she rushed to go home.
- Oh! I must go! - she cried and ran out of the palace. One of her glass slippers
came off but Cinderella did not turn back for it.
She reached home just as the clock struck twelve. Her coach turned back into a
pumpkin, the horses into mice and her fine ball gown into rags. Her stepmother
and stepsisters reached home shortly after that. They were (32) _________ about
the beautiful lady who had been dancing with the prince.
The prince had fallen in love with Cinderella and wanted to find out who the
beautiful girl was, but he did not even know her name. He found the glass slipper
that had come off Cinderella’s foot as she ran home. The prince said,
- I will find her. The lady whose foot fits this slipper will be the one I marry! -
The (33) _________ day, the prince and his servants took the glass slipper and
went to all the houses in the kingdom. They wanted to find the lady whose feet
would fit in the slipper. All the women in the kingdom tried the slipper but it would
not fit any of them.
Cinderella’s (34) _________ also tried on the little glass slipper. They tried to
squeeze their feet and push hard into the slipper, but the servant was afraid the
slipper would break. Cinderella’s stepmother would not let her try the slipper on,
but the prince saw her and said:
The slipper fit her perfectly. The prince recognized her from the ball. He married
Cinderella and together they lived happily ever after.