1 霹雳怡保培南独立中学 SM POI LAM (SUWA) IPOH FINAL EXAMINATION 2021 English Language Paper 1 DATE : 15 NOVEMBER 2021 TIME : 0805 - 0945 ((1hour 40 minutes) NAME：______________________ REG NO: _________________ CLASS：S2REN / S2ZHO INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES This subject comprises of Paper 1 (50%) and Paper 2 (50%) Paper1 consists of 2 sections: Section A: Essay Writing (35%), Section B: Summary Writing (15%). Your composition will be assessed on content, grammar, organization, spelling and punctuation. Write the question number or the topic you have chosen at the top of your test pads. Do Not Turn This Page Until You Are Told To Do So __________________________________________________________________________________ This paper consists of 3 printed pages include cover page Prepared by: Checked by: Survinderjeet Annie Lim …………………………… ……………………………… Survinderjeet Kaur Annie Lim
2 Section A : Essay Writing (35%) Write a composition of not fewer than 350 words on ONE (1) of the following topics. 1. Why do you think most pop songs are about love? Discuss. 2. The importance of co-curricular activities in school. 3. Ways to improve English 4. The causes and effects of noise pollution. 5. Tradition can be both useful and harmful. Section B : Summary Writing (15%) Read the following passage carefully, and then summarize it in continuous writing (not in note form) in not more than 150 words. Write a summary on : ▪ How Glinski escaped from the labour camp ▪ How he managed to stay alive during his escape Seventeen-year-old Witold Glinski crouched silently in the prison train as it crawled through the endless pine forest towards the city of Irkutsk, in Siberia. The Polish prisoner, like all other prisoners on the train, was a victim of Russia’s pact with Hitler. When the train finally came to a stop, the men were unloaded, shackled to long chains on the back of trucks and forced to march for 1300 kilometres. Six weeks later, as Glinski approached the remote labour camp, surrounded by watchtowers, he saw barking dogs run between fences of barbed wire. But as he marched through the gates, he noticed a weak spot: a natural snow-filled trench giving just enough wriggle-room under the wires. “This is where I’ll escape,” he told himself. Over the following months, Glinski secretly made fish hooks, a hatchet and a knife from splinters of iron he stole from the workshop. Then, during a dawn parade in February 1941, the commandant asked if any of the prisoners could fix a radio. “I know a bit about them,” Glinski offered. He got the broken set working, but wanted to stretch the job out. “I need to give it a good clean and check the valves,” he told the commandant’s wife, Maria Uszakof, who was supervising him. She had also once lived in Poland and gave him tea with lots of sugar and slice of bread. She told him to come back the next day. During the next two days, she gave him a parcel of dried meat, new shoes and hand-knitted socks. The day after, it was more shoes and long underwear. “Bad weather is blowing in,” she warned. “But that’s good for some.” She had realized what he was planning to do.
3 That night, after midnight, Glinski crept out and headed for the trench he had spotted. The guards were drinking vodka and playing cards. He slithered under the fence, dragging his belongings wrapped in a blanket. But something made him look back – another man was following him. Glinski’s heart stopped. Was his escape all over? “Who are you?” he demanded. “Don’t worry, I’m your friend,” came the reply. Eventually, several figures were crouching silently around him. It was a varied cast: Smith, an American engineer; Zaro, red-haired, immensely strong but not very smart; Batko, a muscular six footer who had murdered someone, then fled to join the French Foreign Legion; three Polish infantry soldiers; and a sickly teenagers who soon disappeared. They’d all kept an eye on Glinski, realized he was planning to escape and decided to follow. Every day was a hunt for things to kill or pick: a hare dug of its hole with knives and sticks: marsh reeds tasting of bitter celery; salad of sorrel, angelica and clover; small plants with long roots eaten raw or boiled, or pounded into a dough, mixed with water and baked like chapattis. Then it was January 1942. The former prisoners of war had walked for 11 months, and covered about 6500 kilometres. Glinski was transferred to an army hospital outside Calcutta where he remained ill for weeks. He later joined the Polish army in Tehran, Iran and was sent to Egypt, then South Africa, then to fight in Europe.
