Cambridge International

Examinations
Cambridge International General Certificate of
Secondary Education
Sujith

Summative Assessment
GRADE 8
DATE:
Sample Paper 2 English
TIME:
50 Marks

INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Use a black or dark blue pen.
• Write your name, centre number and candidate number
in the boxes at the top of the page.
• Write your answer to each question in the space
provided.
• Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
• Do not write on any bar codes.
• You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in
brackets [ ].
Section A: Reading
Spend 30 minutes on this section.

Read the text, and answer questions 1–12.

1 Look at the first paragraph (lines 1–5).

(a) What literary technique is used in line 2?

Select & tick any one from the options
i.simile

ii. hyperbole

iii. oxymoron

iv. personification [1]

(b) What are the crowd’s feelings?

The crowd was disappointed, because there was a disappointment word "ah"
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(c) The narrator describes herself as ‘... scrawnier than a wire fence’ (line
3).
How does this help Liza and her brother?

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(d) What does we spilled out in front (line 5) tell the reader about the way
Liza and her brother emerged from the crowd?
it tells the reader that they sliped or pushed through spaces between people
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and got in front "spilled out in the front"
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2. Look at lines 6–9.

(a) Liza has been feeling impatient to see the new object.
Give one word that tells the reader this.
by the sentence "I glazed at the gleaming wood box and something
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happened inside me" tell the reader that liza is impatient to see the new
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object.
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(b) The appearance of a telephone in the post office is a remarkable

event.How does the writer build up the excitement of this event?
Give two ways.

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3. Look at lines 10–15.

a) Explain how the writer has linked the three paragraphs

One way to lead readers into the topic

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introduced in a new paragraph is to use

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the first sentence to mention something

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the reader already knows something

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about.
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b) Liza shares the crowd’s feelings about the telephone.

Give one phrase that tells the reader this.

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4 Look at lines 16–18.

What does the reader learn about Liza’s experience of falling in love?

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5 Look at lines 19–21.

(a) Liza was reluctant to leave the post office.
What word tells the reader this?
it tells the reader that liza was not sure to leave
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the post office he was not if it was the right thing

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(b) Look at lines 20–21.

What question is Frank about to ask Liza?
Tick any one of the options.

a.How are you going to get the money?

b.Where are we going?

c.What are you thinking?

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6 .The writer uses dashes ( – ) for two different reasons.

a)Why does the writer use a dash in line 29?
Use a dash to show a pause or break in meaning in the middle of a
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Use a dash to show an afterthought: ...
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Use a dash like a colon to introduce a list: ...
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(b) Why does the writer use a dash in line 31?

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to give a pause or break between words
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7. What decision have the twins made between the end of the thirteenth
paragraph (line 34) and the beginning of the fourteenth paragraph (line
35)?

They decided to explore the mine and stick together

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8. Look at lines 38–40.

What does the reader learn about Liza?
Tick any one from the following.

i.She is always honest.

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ii. She knows magic tricks.

iii. She is very imaginative.

iv. She has a silly voice. [1]

9 (a) Look at lines 41–43. Explain what Liza thinks is unusual about the
mine why?What is unusual?
Because it smelled like mildwew and rotted beams, wood smoke
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Why?

you can smell wood smoke only when it's not been touched or
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cleaned from years or a long time which tell that it's unusual
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(b) How does the writer convey dramatic effect?

By Leave something to the imagination, Make readers work for it
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or Jazz up the conflict in dialogue
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10. Look at lines 47–52.

(a) What is the writer’s use of the word ting (line 47) an example of?
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i.sibiliance

ii.alliteration

iii.assonance

iv.onomatopoeia [1]

(b) What does it (line 51) refer to?

"It" refers to the gold coin
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11. Do you think Liza shows great determination to get what she wants?
Tick any one.

a.Yes

b.No

Explain two ways that her actions show this in the text.

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12.The story is set in the historical past. One piece of evidence is that
people are familiar with how the telegraph works. Give one other piece of
evidence from the text that shows this.

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Section B: Writing
Spend 30 minutes on this section.

13 The extract ends:

‘Just then, voices sounded in the next cavern over: “Zed, hold it higher.”
Two men stepped
through a gap in the far wall.’
Continue the story.
Consider the following:
• the character viewpoint
• who the two men are
• what happens next

Space for your plan:

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 I was terrified me and my twin were staring at the wall and saw two big and strong men
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entering with a large gun in there hands and they asked 'who are you? and what are you doing
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here?' I said 'we are just lost' my twin Frank whispered 'Liza come on let's run" and i thought

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it was not the right thing to do, I asked the two men for help, they some how agreed and

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took the lead and asked us to follow them, as we followed them they took us to the entrance.

The door was right in front of us, the two men opened the door and me and Frank pushed
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the men and locked the door they were banging the door '5 minutes later' banging stopped

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and we started exploring the mine '2 hours later' we found a bunch of glod coins and an
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ingot 'we are going to rich frank!' I said as we were moving on we found a large tunnel

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leading somewhere we followed the tunnel and later on we ended up in room with full of gold

and diamond we took as much as we could back them and we saw a door right in the middle
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surrounded by gold in the sides we tried to open it and it was locked and we started searching
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for the key.

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 'Liza! i found the key' shouted frank in happiness 'where is it' I asked my twin gave the key to
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me and we opened the door right beside there was sign in which there was written text as
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'anywhere door' we both thought of our house and opened it and we were in my house
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the door teleported us to the house we were shocked, but moved on I called my mom

and said what all happened 'what! really?' shockingly asked mom 'Yes mom we found gold!'
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replied Frank, my dad has sold a bit of that gold and we became one of the richest peope in
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the world and now we are in a good school and we own a good house and many other

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things, we couldn't forget this journey it was remarkable journey.

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[Total 25]
Creation of texts : 5
Vocabulary and language :3
Grammar and punctuation : 7
Structure of texts :7
Word structure [spelling] :3

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