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MAKTAB RENDAH SAINS MARA

PEPERIKSAAN PERCUBAAN

SIJIL PELAJARAN MALAYSIA 2009

ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Kertas 1

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JANGAN BUKA KERTAS SOALAN INI SEHINGGA DIBERITAHU Arahan

For Examiner’s Use

Marks

Question 1 10

A

Question 2 10

B 30

TOTAL 50

1. Tuliskan nama dan kelas anda pada

ruang yang disediakan.

2. Kertas soalan ini mengandungi dua

bahagian : Bahagian A dan Bahagian B.

3. Jawab semua soalan.

4. Tuliskan semua jawapan anda untuk

Bahagian A dan Bahagian B di ruangan

yang disediakan.

5. Anda dinasihatkan supaya mengambil

masa 30 minit untuk menjawab soalan

dalam Bahagian A dan 45 minit untuk

menjawab soalan dalam Bahagian B.

Instructions

1. Write your name and class in the space provided.

2. This question paper consists of two sections : Section A and Section B.

3. Answer all questions.

4. Write all your answers for Section A and Section B in the space provided.

5. You are advised to spend 30 minutes to answer the questions in Section A and 45 minutes

on the questions in Section B

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Section A

[20 marks]

[Time suggested : 30 minutes]

Question 1

Read the following text and complete the given task.

(Adapted from: Just English Vol 2. Issue 3)

Insects first appeared over 400 million years ago. Today, scientists have recorded over

900,000 species of insects, more than all other plants and animals. The typical insect

structure, comprising a head, thorax and abdomen with six legs and a set of wings, is

particularly mobile and robust.

As a general rule insects get a very bad press. Over the centuries, insects have been

responsible for spreading terrible diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness and plague.

Insects such as locusts have also consumed crops before they are harvested, causing famine

and starvation. However, despite such damning evidence, perhaps it is now time to restore

the balance and consider life without insects.

Insects are primary food source for the majority of reptiles, amphibians and birds.

Deprived of their food source, such animals would quickly die out. Without insects,

flowering plants would not be pollinated and would fail to reproduce. In addition, insects are

nature’s most effective recyclers. Without insects to recycle the nutrients in dead animals

and plants, the earth would swiftly cease to contain essential nutrient. Eventually, if there

were no insects, only wind-pollinated plants would survive and the land would be inhabited

by only a sparse and meagre animal life.

There are a number of explanations for the amazing success of insects. Insects are

capable of changing form, or metamorphosing, and consequently are able to exploit separate

forms of food and habitat whether on land or in the water.

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Based on the information from the text, complete the table below.

[10 marks]

INSECTS

TYPICAL STRUCTURE

1._______________________________________________

2._______________________________________________

3._______________________________________________

4._______________________________________________

THREATS

5._______________________________________________

6._______________________________________________

USEFULNESS

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ABILITIES

9._______________________________________________

10.______________________________________________

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Question 2

Read the following text and complete the given task.

When scientists first examined the human brain, they found it to be divided into two

hemispheres, which are nearly identical in appearance, mirroring each other just as the two

sides of the body do. When Roger Sperry examined patients whose connection between the

two hemispheres - the corpus callosum - was severed, he found that the two sides of brain

seemed to have different functions.

Many investigators have studied the differences between the functions of the two

hemispheres and have found their relationship to be quite complex. Unfortunately, however,

most people have tended to over-generalise. The left brain is supposed to be logical, rational

and analytical, whereas the right brain is supposed to be creative and emotional. The brain’s

hemispheres are not so simplistically split into two neat divisions. In fact, both hemispheres

participate in almost all our mental activities.

Both hemispheres are in operation when we reason. The left hemisphere is dominant in

recognising abstract differences. The right hemisphere tends to recognise sameness.

The two hemispheres act as partners in language and communication. It appears that the

left hemisphere is dominant when it comes to understanding grammar and syntax, but when

it comes to interpreting emotions in communication, the right brain excels. Whenever we use

language, both hemispheres process the information.

The brain is not totally divided about music. Many people assume that music is

mediated solely in the right brain. That is not so. It is true that the right brain recognises

chords and melodies and seems to mediate pure and slow tones. The left hemisphere is also

involved in music. Fast music, such as bluegrass, requires the brain to make judgments about

sequencing and rhythm and for this the left hemisphere lends its services.

Both hemispheres are involved in our mental activities which are in constant

communication to make sense out of life.

(Adapted from: Refining Composition Skills)

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Based on the information from the text, complete the graphic organiser below.

BRAIN

Left Hemisphere Right Hemisphere

connected by

1._______________________________

Common assumptions

Reasoning abilities

Language and

Communication abilities

Musical abilities

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Logical

2.____________________

3.____________________

5._________________________

9.____________________

4._________________________

Recognising sameness

7.____________________

8.____________________

10.___________________

6._________________________

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Section B

[30 marks]

[Time suggested : 45 minutes]

Read the information given and complete the task.

- Burning of fossil fuels

- Deforestation

- Open burning

- Disposing of waste in landfills

- Rising sea levels

- Droughts and intense rainstorms

- Loss of plants and animal species

- Health problems

Write a report on the causes and effects of global warming.

In your report, you must:

• use all the information given

• elaborate by giving relevant information

• provide any other additional information

Your report should not be less than 200 words.

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