w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS SYNDICATE in collaboration with MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level 3204/02 BENGALI Paper 2 Language Usage and Comprehension October/November 2005 1 hour 30 minutes Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number, index number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer all questions. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. This document consists of 8 printed pages. SPA (NH) S89093/4 © UCLES & MOE 2005 [Turn over 2 Section A A1 Combination of Words [10] 1 2 3 4 5 [10] A2 Idioms, Proverbs and Words in Pairs 6 7 8 9 10 (1) (6) (2) (7) (3) (8) (4) (9) (5) (10) © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 3 [10] A3 Sentence Transformation 11 12 13 14 15 © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 [Turn over 4 A4 Cloze Passage [20] 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (1) (6) (11) (2) (7) (12) (3) (8) (13) (4) (9) (14) (5) (10) (15) © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 5 Section B B5 MCQ Comprehension [14] 26 1 2 3 4 27 1 2 3 4 © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 [Turn over 6 28 1 2 3 4 29 1 2 3 4 30 1 2 3 4 31 1 2 3 4 32 1 2 3 4 © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 7 Section C © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05 [Turn over 8 C6 OE Comprehension [36] 33 34 35 36 37 38 C7 Vocabulary [10] 39 40 41 42 43 End of Paper Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. University of Cambridge International Examinations is part of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge. © UCLES & MOE 2005 3204/02/O/N/05