1 霹雳怡保培南独立中学 SM POI LAM (SUWA) IPOH SECOND MONTHLY TEST EXAM 2023 UEC Junior 2 English Paper 1 DATE: TIME: 16 th August 2023 8.40 – 10.00 a.m. (1Hour 20 Minutes) NAME：______________________ REG NO: ________________ CLASS：J2ZH Instructions to candidates: 1. Please answer all questions unless instructed otherwise. 2. Use Blue and Black ball pen only. 3. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, and glue or correction fluid. 4. This paper consists of 2 sections: SECTION 1: SUMMARY (10%) SECTION 2: COMPOSITION (20%) SECTION 3: CLOZE TEXT (10%) The total mark for this paper is 40. This paper consists of 3 printed pages including this page. Prepared by ： ………………………… (Ms Selvamenaka ) Checked by： ……………………………… (Ms Sonisha) DO NOT TURN OVER THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO
2 SECTION 1: SUMMARY (10%) Based on the passage given, write a summary of not more than 60 words on effects of social media networks. Communication technology is changing our life more than ever before. Mobile phones, emails, social networks, and the internet are common. Social media sites can be so addictive that people, especially youngsters, do not want to spend time with anything else. They live their relationships in a virtual world. People often choose to talk to each other via mobile phones, Skype or communicate via Facebook because they may be afraid of getting to know each other, face to face. However, by doing this, they are missing out on partner’s facial expressions or the gestures that the other makes. Emotions are reduced to likes or dislikes, smiley faces, or other emoticons. Psychology experts have also noticed that more and more marriages are breaking up. One of the reasons may be because Facebook makes it possible to communicate with old friends from high school or former boy or girl friends that you have not had contact with in in ages. Couples are not communicating with each other as they should in real life. They share or argue about things publicly. Many things that should be private have become public. In the future, more social networks may pop up. More and more sites on the web are telling people to share. The more followers and friends we have, the more excited we get. Your summary must: * not be more than 60 words, including the 10 words given below * be in continuous writing (not note form) * be written in one paragraph Use your own words as far as possible without changing its original meaning. Begin your summary as follows: We should avoid social media networks because……. SECTION 2: COMPOSITION (20%) Write a composition of not less than 120 words on one of the following topics. 1. An embarrassing experience. 2. Benefits of watching television. 3. An unforgettable camping activity. 4. You witnessed a bullying incident near the school. Write about the incident. 5. Start your essay with “I saw him looking at me…..”.
3 SECTION 3: CLOZE TEXT (10%) Read the passage right through and then fill in each blank with an appropriate word from the box. I am a __________(1) and work for myself. This is great because I am in __________(2) of what I do and how I spend my time. At first, I was working from __________(3), but I found it hard to concentrate. There were just too many distractions around: housework that needed doing, another __________(4) of tea, my __________(5) members wanting my attention for various things. So, I started to go to a nearby café to work, but the __________(6) connection was not ideal and I found myself drinking too much__________(7). In the end, I decided to rent a desk in a co-working __________(8) with five other freelancers like myself. I liked getting dressed to go to work in the morning and being able to focus in an office__________(9). The other freelancers do similar kinds of web-based work to me and so it is nice to have __________(10) to bounce ideas off as well. ~THE END~ Wi-Fi family environment coffee workmates home space freelancer control cup