w w om .c s er BENGALI ap eP m e tr .X w MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE in collaboration with UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS SYNDICATE General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level 3204/02 Paper 2 Language Usage and Comprehension October/November 2007 1 hour 30 minutes *3383714417* Additional Materials: Answer Sheet READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST 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. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. This document consists of 8 printed pages and 4 blank pages. © UCLES & MOE 2007 SP (SLM/TL) T36206/3 [Turn over 2 BLANK PAGE 3204/02/O/N/07 3 Section A A1 Combination/Separation of Words [10] 1 2 3 4 5 A2 Idioms, Proverbs and Words in Pairs [10] 6 7 8 9 10 (1) (6) (2) (7) (3) (8) (4) (9) (5) (10) © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 [Turn over 4 A3 Sentence Transformation [10] 11 12 13 14 15 © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 5 A4 Cloze Passage [20] 16 650 17 18 300 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (1) (6) (11) (2) (7) (12) (3) (8) (13) (4) (9) (14) (5) (10) (15) © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 [Turn over 6 Section B 6 10,000 50 6,000 590,000 © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 7 B5 MCQ Comprehension [14] 26 (1) (2) (3) (4) 27 (1) (2) (3) (4) 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 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 [Turn over 8 Section C © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 9 C6 OE Comprehension [36] 33 34 35 36 37 38 C7 Vocabulary [10] 39 40 41 42 43 End of Paper © UCLES & MOE 2007 3204/02/O/N/07 10 BLANK PAGE 3204/02/O/N/07 11 BLANK PAGE 3204/02/O/N/07 12 BLANK PAGE 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 Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge. 3204/02/O/N/07