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GEMPUR KECEMERLANGAN SPM 2023

BAHASA INGGERIS
KERTAS 1 (READING)
1 JAM 30 MINIT

JANGAN BUKA KERTAS SOALAN INI SEHINGGA DIBERITAHU

1. Tulis nama dan kelas pada kertas jawapan anda.

2. Kertas soalan ini mengandungi lima bahagian.
Untuk kegunaan pemeriksa
Terdapat lapan soalan pada Bahagian 1, sepuluh
soalan pada Bahagian 2, lapan soalan pada Bahagian Markah Markah
Bahagian 3, enam soalan pada Bahagian 4 dan penuh diperolehi
lapan soalan pada Bahagian 5. 1 8

3. Baca arahan bagi setiap bahagian dengan teliti. 2 10

3 8
4. Jawab semua soalan.
4 6
5. Tandakan / tulis semua jawapan anda dalam
kertas jawapan yang disediakan di halaman 14. 5 8
Sila gunakan pensel untuk menanda dan menulis Jumlah 40
jawapan pada kertas jawapan anda.
6. Serahkan kertas soalan anda kepada pengawas
peperiksaan selepas tamat peperiksaan.

Kertas ini mengandungi 14 halaman bercetak.

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Questions 1 to 8
Read the text carefully in each question. Choose the best answer A, B or C. For each
question, mark the correct answer A, B or C on your answer sheet.

Calling all book lovers!

1 The advertisement says that
Our annual Book Fair is back at
Little Corner Bookstore
A members can get discounts on
1 Nov-31 Dec 2023 all books.

10% sales for school libraries in need of B teachers can get discounts when
books buying reference books.
• Minimum purchase of RM 300
• Fiction and non-fiction C the book fair will last for two
• Only for teachers months.
20% rebate for members on selected
Fiction titles
• Proof of membership card is a must
• Valid with a minimum purchase of
RM10

Secondhand shopping or bundle shopping has

2 From the passage, we know that
become part of our lifestyle. Believe it or not,
wearing bundle clothing nowadays is
considered fashionable. Malaysia has seen an A bundle shopping is a favourite
increase in the number of bundle stores pastime among people.
nationwide.
Bundle shopping is not only
affordable, but also helps to decrease waste B buying pre-loved clothing is a
and pollution while supporting the local form of recycling which helps
economy by contributing to small businesses. to save the environment.
As we all know, not everyone can
afford to buy from designers or luxury brands C wearing used clothes is
to make them look fashionable. becoming a trend because they
look expensive.

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What is mukbang?
Mukbang simply refers to a live-streamed 3 From the passage, we know that
video where viewers watch the host eat. It
A mukbang promotes interaction
is characterised by the amount of food
among people.
consumed during the streaming – think big-
size portions, where viewers sit and watch B mukbang is mostly practised
the host eating and giving comments. It is a in South Korea.
trend in South Korea where eating out and
socializing with others is a big deal. So, one C the public has chosen
of the reasons for mukbang’s popularity is mukbang as part of their
lifestyle.
perhaps to help recreate the social aspect
of dining.

Adapted from:
https://www.qustodio.com/en/blog/what-is-
mukbang/

Perlis East Wind Festival (Pesta Angin

Timur Perlis) is the top three most popular
4 Which statement is true about
traditional cultural events in Malaysia.
Perlis East Wind Festival?
This year, it was held at Kampung Sungai
Padang, Simpang Empat, Perlis for 3 days A The festival is aimed to
from 3 to 5 March 2023. This festival promote traditional events in
celebrates the transition from cool Malaysia.
weather to dry and windy weather in each
year, which is also the post-harvest B It is the most popular
season for paddy farmers in Perlis. It event in March.
aimed to promote local cultural activities
C The farmers celebrate it in
of traditional Malay communities to
cool and windy weather.
visitors.

Adapted from:
https://www.malaysia.travel/events/pesta-
angin-timur-2023

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 “Hey, what’s up guys?” is probably
synonymous with Khairul Aming, who 5 Which of the following is true?
recently bagged the ‘Creator of The Year’
award at Tik Tok Awards Malaysia 2023. A Khairul Aming gains his fame
He began his career as a cooking through cooking videos.
influencer by creating video recipes and
upload them on his Facebook page, B Khairul Aming loves to
RasaPop. cook for his fans.
His fan favorite, "30 Hari, 30 Resepi" is an
annual video where he showcases 30 C RasaPop is available on all
types of recipe ideas for Ramadhan. Today social media channels.
the @KhairulAming brand has gained
more than 8.4 million followers across all
social media channels, and more than a
million views for the videos posted.

Adapted from:
https://www.youthventures.asia/

Every day, GrabFood delivers food and

beverages from restaurants to millions of
consumers across Malaysia. 6 From the passage, we know that

Why GrabFood? A customers have limited choices

of food to eat.
1. Food for all cravings - From hawker fare
to famous restaurants, our wide
B customers can get rewards
selection will satisfy your appetite.
when ordering food online.
2. Be rewarded with every order - Earn
GrabRewards points and redeem them C GrabFood allows customers to
for rewards or rebates. enjoy their food at home.
3. 5-star local selection - Discover the best
eats in town, as rated and reviewed by
millions of food lovers like you.

Adapted from: https://www.grab.com/my/food/

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 — El Nino

weather phenomenon is expected to
7 The news extract tells us that
increase at the end of 2023 until early 2024,
said the Malaysian Meteorological
A haze and open burning are
Department (MetMalaysia). El Nino is a
caused by the El Nino
climate pattern associated with the warming
phenomenon.
of ocean surface temperatures in areas
around the Pacific Ocean, causing
B El Nino will reach its peak
temperature to rise and rainfall to decrease.
between December and
It can also cause haze due to uncontrolled
January.
open burning of forests. Therefore, the
public is advised not to do open burning and
C MetMalaysia is responsible
to reduce outdoor activities if the weather
for controlling El Nino.
gets extremely hot.

Adapted from: https://www.malaymail.com/

Listen to your heart,

Follow your dreams, 8 The extract of the poem tells us to
And let no one tell you what you’re
capable of. A accept fear as part of
Push the limit, being successful.
Bend the rules,
And enjoy every minute of it. B appreciate what we have in
Laugh at everything. life.
Live for as long as you can.
Love all. C always have confidence
But trust none.
within yourself.
Believe in yourself
And never lose faith in others.

Adapted from:
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com

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Questions 9 to 18
Read the text below and choose the best word for each space. For each question, mark the
correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

Do you want a ‘housebot?

Walking (0) _in_ the door (9) _______ a long day at work,
you feel happy to be home. As you walk through the house,
you appreciate the sparkling clean floors, the beds that are
perfectly made and the tasty snack waiting on the kitchen
table. How long did it take to clean the house? No time at all
for you!

With a (10) ______ -friendly remote control that you take everywhere with you, you are able
to do all the chores from your office at work or when you’re out enjoying yourself. And you
don’t have to press any confusing buttons because the device you’re using is voice (11)
_______; you only need to give it a command and the message is sent to your housebot
through a (12) _______ network.

Isn’t that a great idea? This (13) _______ miracle means you’ll never have to wash a dirty
plate or load a washing machine again! A robot that cleans your home (14) ______ does all
the chores you don’t want to do could be a future development in (15) _______ and one we
would all be pleased to see. Such cutting -edge technology is (16) ________ being used for
surgery and space (17) ______ too. If the technology can create housebots, doing chores will
definitely become (18) _______.
Source: English Download Workbook

0 A in B of C at D from
9 A for B after C since D despite
10 A user B buyer C shopper D customer
11 A activate B activates C activated D activating
12 A mobile B cellular C wireless D private
13 A cost-effective B labour-saving C self-help D self-assisting
14 A and B but C or D nor
15 A invention B manufacturing C technology D robotics
16 A hardly B currently C lately D previously
17 A exploration B investigation C inspection D examination
18 A up-to-date B contemporary C outdated D permanent

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Part 3

Questions 19 to 26
You are going to read an extract from an article. For questions 19 to 26, choose the correct answer
(A, B, C or D) and mark the correct letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

Razia was forced to marry her cousin, It was her youngest daughter’s wedding.
Salman. The two never got along from the With all her children and grandchildren staying
beginning. They constantly fought and Salman over, there were not enough rooms. The bride-
often abused her with a heated metal rod, to-be finally suggested using the old bedroom as
sometimes even branding her with red-hot pan. there was no other solution to settle the problem.
She finally decided to end it all. One Razia immediately refused but her children
evening, she made Salman his daily cup of tea, but persisted until she finally relented, promising to
this time she added some poison and gave it to him open it in the morning.
in bed. Soon, Salman felt excruciating pain inside That night, Razia, who had slept
his throat. He lifted accusing eyes towards Razia. peacefully for more than twenty years, could not
“I had no choice,” she said coldly. “I’m not sleep a wink. She got up, feeling an undying
your personal punchbag!” He snarled, “You’re need to go to the forbidden room herself. She
my wife! I have every right to do whatever I want took out the key she had hidden for years, never
to do with you!” Eyes filled with loathing, she wanting to see it again. Yet now, after years of
calmly said, “No, you don’t! After you die, I’ll not even thinking about it, she herself was taking
finally have the peaceful life I’ve always wanted!” it out so willingly with the intention of seeing
“You’ll never be free of me!” Salman that room. She took a lantern with her to the
whispered painfully. “I’ll come back for you and room as she remembered it did not have a power
you’ll have an even more painful death than me! I supply. Turning the key in the lock, she pushed
promise…” His whole body shook in pain. His the door open and stepped in.
eyes burned with hatred before his body went At once, she was struck by a smell so foul
limp. Razia stared at his dead form, his last words and so evil that she could not breathe. She ran to
echoing in her mind. the window and threw it open, greedily
Razia told Dr Khurum, their family doctor, swallowing in the cool night air. The door
that he had taken poison when she was examining suddenly slammed shut behind her. To her
the body. The doctor looked skeptical, her eyes horror, she saw a figure wrapped in a white sheet
drifting to the prominent bruises on Razia’s arms. on the filthy bed. “No, you’re dead!” she
Unspoken words passed between the two women whispered. Then, she came to her senses.
and Dr Khurum said, “Yes, I too, think he did.” Walking to the bed, she pulled the sheet off.
Razia let out a deep breath, relieved. There was no dead body.
Initially, Razia was grief-stricken and felt Breathing more easily, she turned to open
guilty, but she eventually recovered. Her children the door. Suddenly, she felt fingers closing
grew up. They got married and she became a around her throat, squeezing her painfully. Then
happy grandmother. It was the perfect peaceful she heard a voice, whispering into her ear, “I
life that she had always dreamed of before her promised that I’d be back to take you with me.”
marriage. But she despised her old bedroom with The next morning, the family was greeted
every fibre of her being that she locked it up for with the sight of Razia’s dead body when they
good as it would always remind her of every scar opened the door to the room. The marks on her
on her body and the years of torture. She cut off neck showed that she was strangled to death by
the electricity and shut its windows. She hid the a muscular man. There was no reasonable
key to the room, so it was never opened again until motive for someone to murder an old woman
that fateful night more than twenty years later. who had virtually no money. They said it was
revenge. They said it was Salman.
Adapted from Even After Death Do Us Part, http:www.buzzle.com/articles/2013
found in Cemerlang Strategi Tuntas A+ English Form 5
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19 In paragraph 2, why did Razia decide to poison her husband?
A She got tired of their bickering.
B She was always in constant pain.
C She wanted to get out of the marriage.
D She wanted to escape her abusive husband.

20 In paragraph 3, what was her expectation after her husband’s death?

A She would have a contented life.
B She won’t feel resentful anymore.
C She would have the freedom to be herself.
D She won’t be her husband’s punchbag anymore.

21 In paragraph 5, what did the bruises on Razia’s arm signify?

A Her prone to injuries
B Her self-inflicted abuse
C Her tormented married life
D Her carelessness and recklessness

22 In paragraph 6, why did Razia lock up her old bedroom for good?
A She wanted to repent.
B She was guilt-ridden and remorseful.
C She still mourned her husband’s death.
D She wanted to bury her memories with her deceased husband.

23 In paragraph 7, why was Razia reluctant to use the old bedroom?

A It would wake the dead.
B It would disrupt her peace of mind.
C She wanted to hide her past life with her dead husband.
D She did not want her family to see the content of the room.

24 In paragraph 8, what drove Razia to go to her old bedroom?

A Her own curiosity
B Her sudden desire to do so
C Her lack of common sense
D Her willingness to forget the past

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25 In paragraph 9, what caused Razia’s inability to breathe?

A The evil lurking in the room
B The sudden slam of the door
C The wrapped figure on the bed
D The horrible stench of the room

26 What can be inferred about Razia’s death?

A It was a homicide.
B It was a mysterious death.
C It was an inexplicable death.
D It was an unfortunate accident.

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Questions 27 to 32

You are going to read an article about cleaning up the outer space. Six sentences have been
removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A to H the one which fits each gap (27 to
32). There are two extra sentences which you do not need to use.

Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Space Junk
There is an increasing number of objects in low Earth orbit. A camera, a glove, a hand
tool, even a toothbrush: they are all up there, above the clouds, going around and around the
Earth. There are also thousands of pieces of metal and plastic. (27) Scientists consider
all these objects to be "space junk," and they are a problem.
Since people first launched rockets into space in the nineteen-fifties, we have been
leaving behind all sorts of things. Some of them, like the camera, were lost by astronauts while
they did work outside their spacecraft. (28) Some things we send into space fall back
toward Earth and burn up in the atmosphere. But larger pieces sometimes survive the extreme
heat and hit the ground or the ocean at great speeds. So, there is always concern that something
may fall from the sky and do some harm.
But space junk falling on housetops is not the biggest worry. Scientists are concerned
about the "Kessler" syndrome. It is named for the American scientist who first thought of the
idea in 1978. Imagine what happens when an empty rocket strikes another while orbiting the
earth. (29) The pieces get smaller and smaller until they form a cloud of junk that
blocks the path of future space vehicles.
So, what can be done to clean up the space around our planet? Marco Castronuovo, an
Italian Space Agency researcher, has an idea. In the publication "Acta Astronautica," he writes
about launching a satellite into space that would get very close to some of the larger pieces of
space junk. The satellite would connect a small rocket to the useless object. When the rocket
explodes, it pushes the junk into a lower and slower orbit, nearer the Earth. (30)
Mr. Castronuovo has proposed using a number of small satellites with robotic arms.
(31) He imagines that each satellite would jump from one large piece of junk to
another. He thinks this method could destroy about ten large objects each year.
Scientists have been concerned about space junk for many years. (32) However,
Mr. Castronuovo says his system could be put in place for a much more reasonable amount of
money.
Source: www.voanews.com

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A Two big things become many smaller things and they then hit other things.
B One would catch the space junk, and another would connect the rocket.
C After a time, the junk burns up in the atmosphere.
D Though costly, it would in time create a much safer space environment for all
space-faring nations.
E Right now, the costs of the clean-up have been too great.
F But much of the space junk is made up of little pieces of things that were once
bigger objects, until they struck each other and broke apart.
G Some of them are only about the size of a fingernail and many are much
larger.
H The collision could cause an explosion that could harm the nearby planets.

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Questions 33 to 40.
Read the texts carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Tips to Avoid Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke

A - Stay hydrated

Staying hydrated is the key to maintaining a healthy body temperature, particularly during
exercise. Drink plenty of fluids the day before and the day of physical activity. During
exercise, keep a drink handy to replenish those substances you have lost while sweating.
B - Maintain a healthy weight

People who are obese are at much greater risk for heat-related illnesses. Carrying excess
weight can affect your body’s ability to regulate its temperature and cause you to retain more
heat. Talk to your doctor if you need help managing your weight.
C - Wear Sunscreen

Sunburn affects your body’s ability to cool down and can make you dehydrated. If you must
go outdoors, protect yourself from the sun by wearing a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, and
by putting on sunscreen of SPF 15 or higher 30 minutes prior to going out. Continue to
reapply it according to the package directions.
D - Be extra careful if you’re sick

Infections such as the flu can cause your body temperature to spike. If you’ve recently
overcome an illness, be cautious about the amount of time you spend outside and spend
exercising for a couple of weeks.
E - Use the buddy system

If you’re older than 70, you’re more susceptible to heat stroke due to underlying medical
conditions that can affect your body temperature. If you live alone or can’t get around well,
the risk is increased, especially if your air conditioner breaks. Use the buddy system—find
a friend or relative who can help when the temperature rises.
F - Mind the temperature and time

Keep in mind the time of day you’ll be outside, as early mornings and late evenings are the
coolest times of the day. When you see heat indexes in the high 90s or above, be especially
careful about the amount of time you spend outside.

Adapted from https://www.medstarhealth.org/

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Questions 33 to 36.
Using the information given, which text (A – F) describes the following statements about tips
to avoid heat exhaustion and heat stroke?
For each question, mark your answer on the answer sheet.

Statement Paragraph

33 People who are overweight can seek doctor’s advice. __________

34 Having someone to rely on can help in case of any __________

heat-related emergencies.

35 Using sunblock is one way to protect yourself from the sun. __________

36 It is essential to exercise extra care when going outdoors __________

after recovering from an illness.

Questions 37 to 40.
Complete the notes below using information from the text. Choose no more than one word
from the passage for each answer. Write your answer on the answer sheet.

How to Avoid Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke

• It's important to have a beverage (37) ___________ to keep you well-hydrated

throughout your workout.
• Applying (38) __________ before heading outside is good as a protection in the sun.
• For individuals that have limited mobility, it is advisable to implement the
(39) ___________ system.
• Additionally, it's crucial to keep track of the heat index, so that you will be extra
(40) ____________ when you are outdoors.

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