CANDIDATE CODE

Kiribati Senior Secondary Certificate

ENGLISH

2020
QUESTION and ANSWER BOOKLET
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Instructions
1. Write your Student Identification Number (Spin) on the top right hand corner of this
page, on page 24 and on any extra sheets of paper you write your answer on.

2. This Examination Paper consists of THREE Sections. ANSWER ALL SECTIONS.

SECTION MARKS TIME
Section 1: Reading Comprehension 40 Marks 60 minutes
Section 2: Formal Writing 20 Marks 40 minutes
Section 3: Responses to Texts 40 Marks 80 minutes
Total Marks 100 Marks 180 minutes

3. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this Booklet. If you need extra paper, ask
your supervisor.

4. Budget your time carefully.

Check that this booklet has pages 2- 24 in the correct order and that no page is blank

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 SECTION 1: READING COMPREHENSION (40 MARKS)
Read ALL PASSAGES and answer ALL the questions that follow each passage. You
should spend about 60 minutes on this section.

This passage is taken from SAT Reading Comprehension 10

1 It begins the moment you set foot ashore, the moment you step off the boat’s gangway. The heart
suddenly, yet vaguely, sinks. It is no lurch of fear. Quite the contrary. It is as if the life-urged
failed, and the heart dimly sank. You trail past the benevolent policeman and the inoffensive
passport officials, through the fussy and somehow foolish customs – we don’t really think it
5 matters if somebody smuggles in two pairs of false-silk stockings – and we get into the poky but
inoffensive train, with poky but utterly inoffensive people, and we have a cup of inoffensive tea
from a nice inoffensive boy, and we run through small, poky but nice and inoffensive country, till
we are landed in the big but unexciting station of Victoria, when an inoffensive porter puts us in an
inoffensive taxi and we are driven through the crowded yet strangely dull streets of London to the
10 yet strangely poky and dull place where we are going to stay.
And the first half-hour in London, after some years abroad, is really a plunge of misery. The
strange, the grey and uncanny, almost deathly sense of dullness is overwhelming. Of course, you
get over it after a while, and admit that you exaggerated. You get into the rhythm of London again,
and you tell yourself that it is not dull. And yet you are haunted, all the time, sleeping or waking,
15 with the uncanny feeling: It is dull! It is all dull1. This life is one vast complex of dullness! I am
dull! I am being dulled! My spirit is being dulled! My life is dulling down to London dullness. This
is the nightmare that haunts you the first weeks of London. No doubt if you stay longer you get
over it, and find London as thrilling as Paris or Rome or New York. But the climate is against me. I
cannot stay long enough. With pinched and wondering gaze, the morning of departure, I look out
20 of the taxi upon the strange dullness of London’s arousing; sort of death; and hear all the Good-
bye! Thank God to say Good-bye!

Adapted from: SAT Comprehension Test 10, by D.H.Lawrence, and English novelist.

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PASSAGE 1 (16 Marks)

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE (6 Marks)

Write the Letter of your best choice in the corresponding box to each question.
1. The Mood and Atmosphere of the story is best described as ……………..

A. Depression
B. Fear
C. Foreboding
D. Relief

2. The word ‘Vaguely ‘is closest in meaning to ________________

A. Dull
B. Closely
C. Just about
D. Urged

3. The author of this passage makes his point mainly by the use of which Language
Features?

A. Accumulation and details

B. Irony and Satire
C. Metaphor and Simile
D. Repetition and Exclamation
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4. The phrase ‘Plunge of misery’(Line 11) means _______________

A. Suddenly sinks
B. Faced with problems and unhappiness.
C. Overwhelmed with fear.
D. Feeling of uncertainty.

5. The extensive use of the Pronoun ‘YOU’in the passage indicates that the author
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A. Believes that his feelings will be shared by many others.

B. Is describing the experience of someone else.
C. Is speaking to one particular person.
D. Wishes to add variety to his style.

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 6. Identify the author’s Method of Narration in the reading Passage.

A. First Person Point of view.

B. Second Person Method of Narration.
C. Third Person Point of View.
D. Mixture of First and Second Person point of view.

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B. SHORT ANSWERS (10 Marks)

Answer the following questions using information from Passage 1.

7. What is the primary purpose of this passage according to the Author? Explain your
answer.

Purpose: __________________________________________________________________

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Explanation: _______________________________________________________________

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(2 Marks)

8. The passage shows clearly the Atmosphere of London. List down Two words or
statements that clearly describes the Atmosphere of the place.

i) ________________________________________________________________

ii) ________________________________________________________________
(2 marks)

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 9. Explain in your own words what it means by the phrase “But the climate is against
me.” (Line 18-19).

Explanation: _______________________________________________________________

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(2 marks)

10. The Passage describes the person’s feeling about London. State TWO possible
reasons why the persona feels that way.

i) _________________________________________________________________

ii) __________________________________________________________________

(2 marks)

11. Describe the author’s first impression as stated in the paragraph one of the passage
and Quote a statement which clearly shows that impression.

Impression: _________________________________________________________________

Quotation: _________________________________________________________________

(2 marks)

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 PASSAGE 2 (6 MARKS)

I have previously defined a sanctuary as a place where man is passive and the rest of Nature
active. But this general definition is too absolute for any special case. The mere fact that
man has to protect a sanctuary does away with his purely passive attitude. Then, he can
beneficially active by destroying pests and parasites, like bot-flies or mosquitoes, and by
finding antidotes for diseases like the epidemic which periodically kills off the rabbits and
thus starves many of the carnivore to death. But, except in cases where experiment has
proved his intervention to be beneficial, the less the upsets the balance of Nature the better,
even when he tries to be an earthly providence.
Adapted from: Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador, W Wood (1911).

A) Clearly explain the author’s main concern as stated in the passage?

Concern: ___________________________________________________________________
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B) List down TWO ways that destroys Nature according to the reading.
A: ________________________________________________________________________
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B: ________________________________________________________________________
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C) What is the tone of the passage? Give evidence to support your answer.
Tone: ______________________________________________________________________
Evidence: __________________________________________________________________
(2 Marks)

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PASSAGE 3 (6 MARKS)

Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

5 Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
10 Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou – 1928 – 2014.

15. Identify one of the Language features used in stanza 1 and explain what it is inferring.
Technique: _________________________________________________________________
Explanation: ________________________________________________________________
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(2 Marks)

16. Explain in your own words what does the title of this poem means in the context of the
poem.
Explanation: ________________________________________________________________
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17. What is the main lesson conveyed in this poem? Quote from the poem to support your
answer.
Lesson: ____________________________________________________________________
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Quotation:
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PASSAGE 4 (6 MARKS)

18. Describe the target audience of the advertisement. Support your answer with evidence
from the advertisement.
Audience: __________________________________________________________________
Evidence: __________________________________________________________________
(2 Marks)
19. What is offered in the advertisement that motivates you to apply? How effective is it?
Motivating factor: ____________________________________________________________
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Effect: _____________________________________________________________________
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20. What particular aspect is used to attract reader’s attention? Explain how that feature
attract reader’s attention to support your answer.

Aspect: ____________________________________________________________________
Explanation: ________________________________________________________________
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(2 marks)

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PASSAGE 5 (6 MARKS)

1 That large animals require a luxuriant vegetation, has been a general assumption
which has passed from one work to another; but I do not hesitate to say that it is
completely false, and that it has vitiated the reasoning of geologists on some points of
great interest in the ancient history of the world. The prejudice has probably been derived
from India, and the Indian Islands, where troops of elephants, noble forests, and
impenetrable jungles, are associated together in every one’s mind. If, however, we refer
to any work of travels through the southern parts of Africa, we shall find allusions in
almost every page either to the desert character of the country, or to the numbers of large
animals inhabiting it. The same thing is rendered evident by the many engravings which
9 have been published of various parts of the interior.
Adapted from: Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin (1890).

21. Explain the meaning of the phrase “Luxuriant vegetation” (line 1) according to its usage
in the passage.
Explanation: ________________________________________________________________
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(2 Marks)
22. What does the passage imply? Give a reason for your answer.
Implication: ________________________________________________________________
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Reason: ____________________________________________________________________
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23. State what the author is primarily concerned with and quote a phrase which support the
author’s concern.
Concern: ___________________________________________________________________
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Quotation: __________________________________________________________________
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(2 Marks)

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SECTION II: FORMAL WRITING (20 MARKS)
Question 24
 Write an essay of about 200-300 words on ONE of the following
topics.
 Present your ideas in a clear, well developed and convincing manner.
 You should allow time for planning, drafting and editing.
 The blank page is for your planning and will not be assessed.

1. Population growth in Kiribati has become the greatest fear.

2. It is vital to consider the rights of young people.
3. “Ladies and gentlemen, it is very important to value our elderly people more highly.”
4. “You need to work hard in order to be successful,” one of my teachers said.
5. Violence amongst our youth in Kiribati has become an issue.
6. My heart sank when I saw trees lying on the beach with their roots above the sand.

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USE THIS PAGE FOR PLANNING AND DRAFTING
[Work on this page will NOT be assessed]

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Q24.

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SECTION III: RESPONSE TO TEXTS (40 Marks)

This Section contains SIX questions, each of which offers TWO options.
 Answer TWO questions from this section.
 For each question you choose answer EITHER A OR B.
 Write an essay of about 200-300 words on each of your options.
 State the title and the author of the works you have chosen to answer the
questions.
 Use examples from your chosen works in your answers.
 DO NOT use the same work or author in your two essays.
 Spend about 40 minutes on each section.

QUESTION 25: NOVEL (20 Marks)

EITHER

A. With reference to a novel you have studied, discuss how a significant setting in the
novel you have studied helped you understand one or more key ideas.

OR

B. Describe at least ONE character or individual who changed in the novel you have
studied AND explain how the change helped you understand the character or
individual better.

QUESTION 26: SHORT STORIES (20 Marks)

EITHER

A. Describe an important event in TWO short stories you have studied AND explain why
the event had a positive or negative effect on one of the characters.
(20 marks)
OR

B. With reference to TWO short stories you have studied, discuss how a change in a
character in each story helped you understand one key idea.
(20 marks)

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QUESTION 27: DRAMA (20 MARKS)

EITHER

A. Describe ONE main idea that is relevant to people in today’s society in a play you
have studied and explain why it is relevant to people in today’s society.
OR

B. Describe an important decision that a character had to make in one of the plays you
have studied. Explain how the decision affected the character throughout the play.

QUESTION 28: POETRY (20 Marks)

EITHER

A. Discuss the importance of figurative language techniques in TWO OR MORE poems

you have studied.

(20 marks)
OR

B. For each of the TWO poems you have studied, discuss how a significant detail helped
you understand EACH poem.

(20 marks)

QUESTION 29: NON-FICTION (20Marks)

EITHER
A. A. Discuss how the writer uses a character for a symbolic purpose in a non-fiction
you have studied.
OR
B. B. Describe a difficult situation presented in a non-fiction work you have studied
AND explain why this situation interests you.

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QUESTION 30: FILM (20 marks)

EITHER
A. Describe ONE method the director used to engage the audience in a film you have
studied. Explain how this method engaged the audience, supporting your points with visual
and / or oral language features used in that film.

OR

B. Describe ONE important conflict in a film you have studied AND explain how this
conflict helped you understand a character or individual in that films. Support your points
with visual and or oral language features used in that film.

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SECTION III: First Answer Question 25,26,27,28,29,30 Option: A or B

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SECTION III: Second Question 25,26,27,28,29,30 Option: A or B
Answer
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Second Question Answered 20

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 CANDIDATE CODE

ENGLISH
2020
(For Marker’s Use Only)
Section Check
Marker Marker
(Question)

I (1-6)
6

I (7-11)
10
I (12-14)

6
I (15-17)

6
I (18-20)

6
I (21-23)

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II (24)

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Write the NUMBERS and LETTERS of the
Literature question you answered in the circles
below.

III
20

III
20

TOTAL 100

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