ST STEPHEN’S COLLEGE
SECOND TERM MID-TERM TEST (2022-2023)
Subject: S2 English
Name: ____________________ Class: 2_____ Class No.:_____
Group: G1 / G2 / G4 / G5 / G6 / G7 / G8 / G9 (circle one)
Time allowed: 45 minutes
Question-Answer Book
Instructions to Students:
1. Maximum Score: 42 marks.
2. This Question-Answer Book and the Reading Passages Booklet consist of 6 and 2
pages respectively, including their cover pages.
3. Write your name, class, class number and circle your group number on this page,
as well as the cover page of the Reading Passages Booklet.
4. Attempt ALL questions. Each question carries ONE mark unless otherwise
stated.
5. Write your answers in the spaces provided in the Question-Answer Book.
Answers written in the margins will NOT be marked.
6. For multiple-choice questions, you are advised to blacken the appropriate circle
with a pencil so that wrong marks can be completely erased with a clean rubber.
Mark only ONE answer to each question. Two or more answers will score NO
MARKS.
7. Supplementary answer sheets will be supplied on request. Write your name,
class, class number and group number, mark the question number on each sheet
and attach them to the Question-Answer Book.
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PART A READING COMPREHENSION
Read the passage on page 2 in the Reading Passage Booklet and answer questions 1-10. (18 marks)
1. Which word in paragraph 1 means ‘wanting very much to achieve’?
___________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which company’s advertising campaign made customers feel like they deserved to spend money on
themselves?
___________________________________________________________________________________
3. What are the TWO major categories of beauty products? (2 marks)
(i) __________________________________________________________________________
(ii) __________________________________________________________________________
4. According to paragraph 3, what is ONE thing that is considered attractive for both genders?
___________________________________________________________________________________
5. How does “a single image of beauty” (lines 14-15) benefit the beauty industry?
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
6. What does ‘they’ (line 26) refer to?
___________________________________________________________________________________
7. Complete the following summary using the information in paragraph 5. Use ONE word to fill in each blank.
You may have to change the word forms to make your answers grammatical. (5 marks)
People often choose their best (i) _____________________________ then edit them before they
(ii) ___________________________ them online. Similarly, professional photographers use special
software to (iii)________________________________ their photos to make them look better.
For example, they often make (iv)_____________________ bodies appear
more (v)______________________ and toned.
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8. What is the problem with the way social media influencers promote sponsored products? (2 marks)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
9. According to the article, are the following statements True (T), False (F) or Not Given (NG)?
Blacken only one circle for each statement. (4 marks)
T F NG
i) Men spend less on beauty products than women.
ii) Only photos of female models are enhanced in professional photos.
iii) Fashion bloggers are required to state who their sponsors are.
10. After reading the essay, do you think beauty advertisements are trustworthy? Support your stance
with at least ONE reason from the text.
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
END OF PART A
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PART B GRAMMAR
Section A Word Forms (8 marks)
You are writing a review of a product you bought online. Complete the review using the correct form of the
verb in brackets. You may have to use different tenses in active or passive voice, and / or gerunds and
infinitives.
Hypocritical fashion
While I (1) _____________________ (search) online for a sustainable clothing company, I found the
company Our Earth. I decided to buy a T-shirt from them with the slogan ‘Save the planet … Save
humanity.’ The company’s T-shirts (2) _____________________ (promote) as being environmentally
friendly. Also, 20% of the proceeds were supposed to go to wildlife charities.
When the T-shirt arrived, I looked at the label. It (3) ____________________ (make) from polyester,
a fabric derived from oil! Not only does polyester manufacturing create a lot of pollution, but also
every time you wash it, it releases microplastics into the water. I (4) ____________________ (not
feel) so angry in a long time. I didn’t know what (5) ____________________ (do). To make matters
worse, the ‘charity’ had nothing to do with protecting wildlife. Instead, most of the proceeds from
their products go to offering scholarships for business students!
I can’t help but wonder how the marketing team of the company messed this up so badly. What
(6) ____________________ they____________________ (think)? Did they suppose that no one
would notice?
Finally, I decided to do some research. I found out who (7) ___________________________(call) at
the company to lodge a complaint. The Customer Service Manager offered to return my money, then
asked, ‘(8) _________________ your complaint ____________________ (resolve)?’ Obviously, I
said that it wasn’t, since their products were still available online. That’s why I’m writing this
publicly. Do NOT shop at Our Earth!
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Section B Defining and Non-defining clauses (8 marks)
Your friend is writing an article about a teenager who wants to protect cheetahs. She has asked for your help.
Complete the article with relative clauses. Use the phrases from the box below to help you. Remember to
include commas for non-defining relative clauses. The first one had been done for you as an example.
are afraid the animals will kill their livestock Joris helped to fund
are used to purchase GPS collars mentioned the possibility
have helped them all stay alive protects cheetahs
comes from the US show the farmers where the cheetahs are
have led to many cheetahs’ deaths wanted to support her son
The boy who saved the cheetahs
Joris Hutchison __(e.g.) ,who comes from the US,_________ has always loved cheetahs. After he read a
book (1) _______________________________________________ that cheetahs could go extinct in his
lifetime, he thought about what he could do to help prevent that. Joris contacted Naankuse, a wildlife
conservation organization in Namibia (2)_______________________________________________________.
Joris and his mum volunteered at the sanctuary for three summers, but he also worked tirelessly during the
rest of the year to raise funds (3)
__________________________________________________________________ for the cheetahs. In
Namibia, cheetahs are most often killed by local farmers
(4)_____________________________________________________________. But now, with the GPS
collars (5) _____________________________________________________________, they can avoid
human-cheetah conflicts (6) ____________________________________________________________ in the
past.
Naankuse has fitted 86 cheetahs with collars (7) _______________________________________________,
thanks to the education and technology (8) _______________________________________________.
Bravo, Joris! The world needs more young people like you!
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Section C Proofreading (8 marks)
Proofread the following article about the environmental impact of your fashion choices. Each of the
numbered lines may contain one mistake. Identify the mistakes and put down the correct answers on the lines
on the right following the instructions below. Do not make changes to punctuation.
Underline a wrong word and write the correct word on the line on the right.
Cross out an extra word with an X and write that word on the line on the right.
Add a missing word with the symbol (^) and write the missing word on the line on the right.
Put a tick (✓) on the right if there is no mistake in the line.
The impact of my fashion choices
Recently, I bought a dress from a type of fabric called viscose. It feels a lot like
silk, and I absolutely loved the way it looked. That is … until I found out how
environmentally damaging viscose can be. It is very frustrating that buy 1.___________________
something, and then find out you are contributing to the harm of endangered
species. In my opinion, it is unethical me to wear fabrics that affect these 2.___________________
species.
Viscose is made from a cellulose, coming from plants. It is light and soft 3.
____________________
__
to wear. That’s why it’s so popular in the fashion world.
The source of viscose difficult to trace, since numerous countries produce it. 4.___________________
However, a good deal of viscose is manufactured in Sumatra in Indonesia.
Sadly, in this region, old-growth rainforest is often cut down to make fibre for
the fabric. A lot of companies call viscose a sustainable fabric because it
comes from plants, but they is wrong of them to say so. It takes old-growth 5. __________________
forests hundreds of years to regenerate.
It is horribly to hear about the effects of this practice on endangered animals. 6. __________________
Sumatran orangutans and Sumatran tigers are two species that suffer the
effects of deforestation. It is not always easy of us to avoid unsustainable 7.__________________
fabrics. It takes a lot of careful research. Even then, it is still impossible for us
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to know all the details. From now on, I will only buy clothes from companies
with good environmental reputations. Even though the clothing may cost more,
I find it reassuring to my decisions aren’t harming beautiful animals. 8.__________________
END OF PART B
END OF PAPER
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