Second Semester Examination - July 2022

Subject : English Paper / 85

Listening Test / 10
Class : 4…....... Handwriting & neatness / 05
Total /100
Duration : 2 periods
Candidate's name : ................................................................... Date : .........……….................…

COMPREHENSION,VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

1. (i) Number the paragraphs from 1 - 6 to show the correct order of the famous story of
The Hare and the Tortoise.

(a) …… When the hare woke up he was amazed. He saw that tortoise was close to the
finish line.
(b) …… The hare is a very fast animal. The tortoise is a very slow animal. One day, the
hare said to the tortoise, “Your legs are so short! You are so slow!”
(c) …… The day of the race came. The two animals started at the same time. The hare
started running very fast. The tortoise started slowly and never stopped walking.
(d) …… The hare thought, “Tortoise is a long way behind me. I’ll have a rest. I’ll sit
under this tree.” He soon went to sleep.
(e) …… The tortoise replied, “Yes I’m slow, but if you have a race with me, I will finish
first.” The hare laughed. He agreed to have a race. He was sure he would win.

(f) …… Even though the hare ran as fast as he could, he was too late. The tortoise won
the race!
(6 marks)

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(ii) Find opposite words from the story for the underlined words in each sentence.
(a) They lost the match. ---------------------------------------
(b) We stopped for lunch near a lake. ---------------------------------------
(2 × 2 = 4 marks)
[Total = 10 marks]

2. Read the passage carefully. Your answers must be based on the passage.

A Funny Festival

La Tomatina is the largest food fight festival in the world, with around 20,000 locals and
tourists participating each year. It takes place in the Valencian town of Bunol in Spain on the
last Wednesday of August. It is a festival, in which people throw tons of ripe and squashed
tomatoes at each other just for fun. The origins of this mass tomato battle date back to a fight
among children in 1945 and it has been celebrated every year since then.

The farmers near Bunol grow a lot of tomatoes. In summer there are too many tomatoes to sell.
So the people of Bunol have an unusual way of using them. Every year, one day in August is
called “Tomatina.” In the morning, the shopkeepers in Bunol put plastic covers over their shops.
They do not want their shops to be covered with tomato juice. A big crowd of people comes
into town to take part in this festival. People wear old clothes since they get covered with
tomato juice. The trucks bring about 125,000 kg of tomatoes.

People enjoy throwing tomatoes at each other. They also enjoy being hit by tomatoes. When
tomatoes hit people, they get covered with tomato juice. Soon everyone is red and everyone
starts having a lot of fun!

After about one hour, everyone stops throwing tomatoes. The streets of Bunol are covered with
tomato juice. The people wash the streets and soon all the tomato juice is gone. Tomatina is
finished for another year, but next August the farmers will have a lot of tomatoes again. It will
be Tomatina time again!

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(i) Circle ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false.

(a) Tomatina is a famous food festival in Spain. T/F
(b) People do not wear new or good clothes to the festival. T/F
(c) Participants like being hit by tomatoes. T/F
(3 marks)
(ii) Answer in complete sentences.
(a) Where is the Tomatina festival held?
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(1 mark)
(b) What happens at the Tomatina festival?
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(c) When did the festival start?
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(d) How do the participants enjoy at the festival?
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(2 × 2 = 4 marks)
(e) What do the participants do at the end of the festival?
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(1 mark)
(f) Would you like to take part in the Tomatina festival? Why or Why not? Write two
sentences.
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(2 × 2 = 4 marks)

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(iii) Complete the sentences with a verb in the past simple and the past continuous.
Example: While the Sun was setting the girl fell asleep.
(a) When Jenny -------------------------- (go) to the market she -------------------------- (see)
a huge crowd in Bunol town.
(b) Peter -------------------------- (lose) his hat while he -------------------------- (take part)
in the festival.
(c) When Harry -------------------------- (wake up) participants --------------------------
(return) home after the festival.
(2 × 3 = 6 marks)
(iv) Complete the sentences with the correct question tags.
Example: The playground is new, isn’t it?
(a) People were enjoying, ----------------------------------------
(b) Peter didn’t like the festival, ----------------------------------------
(c) John and Kelly are planning to visit Spain, ----------------------------------------
(3 marks)

(v) Complete the sentences with a quantitative pronoun. There are extra words in the
brackets.

(nobody, anybody, nothing, everywhere, anywhere)

(a) Sam was hungry, but there was ------------------------------------ left in the shops to buy.
(b) Zusan couldn’t find her purse ------------------------------------.
(c) People were hit by tomatoes but ------------------------------------ fought at the festival.
(2 × 3 = 6 marks)
(vi) Underline the correct words.
(a) Harry : I’m a bit scared of taking part in Tomatina festival.
Jenny : Me too / Me neither. I don’t even like eating tomatoes.
(b) James : I’m not scared at all.
Peter : Me too / Me neither. I visited Spain to take part in the festival last year.

(2 × 2 = 4 marks)
[Total = 35 marks]

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READING FOR ENJOYMENT

3. Answer in complete sentences.

(i) Prose – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

(a) Why was Mary sent to England? How was she welcomed to the Misselthwaite Manor?
Explain briefly.
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(2 × 2 = 4 marks)
(b) Colin was lucky to have a cousin like Mary. Do you agree? Explain in three
sentences.

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(2 × 3 = 6 marks)

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(ii) Poetry - Try, Try Again by T.H. Palmer

Do you think this poem is important to your life? Why? Explain in two sentences.
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(2½ × 2 = 5 marks)

[Total = 15 marks]

Composition

4. Write an essay on one of the topics. The composition should be written in three paragraphs.
(about 120 - 150 words)
(i) How are you planning to spend your August holidays?
(ii) Write a story about the lion that escaped from the zoo. Start with “One day…” Write a
suitable title.

Tick the topic you chose : Topic (i) Topic (ii)

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For the teacher’s use only.

Language Topics (i) & (ii) Content Topic (i) Content Topic (ii)
Grammar /4 Organisation of ideas /2 Organisation of ideas /2
Ability to give an account
Vocabulary /4 Ability to describe /5 of happenings/events /5
For a suitable story title /1
Spelling /2 Ability to explain various plans
Ability to explain using
using future tense /5
past tense /4
Punctuation /3
Total /13 Total /12 Total /12
Total /25

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Ref : CJ

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