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1. The document provides model questions for the English Language Paper II exam for GCE Ordinary Level in 2020. 2. It includes exercises on filling in blanks with suitable words, identifying incorrect words in sentences, matching verbs to contexts, selecting similar meaning words, and matching words to phrases. 3. The questions test grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

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O - L English - Test 10 Activities

1. The document provides model questions for the English Language Paper II exam for GCE Ordinary Level in 2020. 2. It includes exercises on filling in blanks with suitable words, identifying incorrect words in sentences, matching verbs to contexts, selecting similar meaning words, and matching words to phrases. 3. The questions test grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

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GCE Ordinary Level Examination – 2020

English Language
Model Questions Paper - II

Fill in the blanks with the most suitable words.


Exercise also ______ (pay, paid, pays) a vital role in _________ (keeps, keeping, keep) your body healthy.
Regular __________ (exercises, exercise, exercised) will also keep your body in good health. By exercise
it doesn’t mean a _________ (simplified, simpler, simple) and slow walk. It should be in such a way that
your body should _________ (started, start, starts) sweating. You can go for running, do cycling,
_________ (walked, walks, walking) faster etc. Daily __________ (finds, finding, find) sometime 30 mints
to one hour per day for your exercise. Have a _________ (regulars, regular, regulating) checking of your
weight and try to _________(controls, controlling, control) it. It’s nice to have __________(Medicine,
Medicals, Medical) checkups and dental checkups by which you can have an idea about your health
condition.

Test 10
Read the following letter. In each line one word is incorrect and it is underlined. Write the correct word in
the space provided. The first one is done for you.
Dear Kasun,
Today is our third day in Galle. ……………………………..
My cousins also join us. We ……………………………..
took our’s dog, Brown also with us. ……………………………..
Last evening we play at Galle Fort. ……………………………..
We enjoyed a lot watch ……………………………..
the setting son. My aunt Rani ……………………………..
will coming from Australia tonight. ……………………………..
She is going to spent a week with ……………………………..
us. My father has bought six ticket for ……………………………..
a drama. Tomorrow we'll go to sea it. ……………………………..
We’re having a real good time. I’ll ……………………………..
bring you a gifts when I come. ……………………………..
With love,
Lahiru

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Test 10
Fill in the blanks with the following verbs.

Made up, settled down, turn back, turned off, fell into
Ran into, took off, called off, make for, got up

Last Sunday was a rainy day. Mr. Jayantha had to attend a meeting in school. His alarm didn’t work
and he (1) __________________ late, dressed quickly and ran to the bus stop. When he was about ten
yards away the bus (2) _______________. He began to walk, disappointed. Half way through, he (3)
_______________an old friend and (4) _________________________ a deep conversation. All of a
sudden it started to rain. Mr. Jayanath wanted to (5) _________________________, but he (6)
_________________________ his mind to go because he thought it was important to (7)
_________________________ the meeting. When he reached the main hall there was no one. The lights
were on. He (8) _________________________ the lights and left the place. It was only then that he saw
the notice on the wall. “Due to bad weather the meeting is (9) _______________.” Back at home he drank
a hot cup of tea and (10) _____________________to read a book.

Select the word from the box which has a similar meaning to the phrase given within brackets
after each blank and write it in the space given. There are three extra words.

(entertainment / depends / satellites / specially / transformed / advances / receives / access / rapidly)

Television was one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century; it completely

01) transformed . (change or modify) the society. Television works by converting pictures and sounds into

signals and sending them out by transmitters, 02)………………………………… (artificial

body orbiting around earth for communication), or underground cables. Television was first

developed in the 1920s; it spread 03)………………………………… (quickly or speedily) and by the

1980s, almost every American home had a T.V. set. By bringing information and

04)…………………………………… (Providing amusement or enjoyment) directly into the home,

television altered daily life. Today new 05)………………………………… (improvements) in television

technology, including digital and broadband 06)………………………………… (means of entering) mean

that T.V. can also provide interactive choices such as e-mail and information services.

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Read the text and match the word in the box with the phrase withing the brackets. There is an extra
word. The first one has been done for you
For most people the word literature means books and reading. But there was a time when
there were almost no books because there were no printing presses. People learned the tales of good story –
tellers and retold he same tales with a few additions and (1)…………..trimmings…………. (extra things
that are added) of their own. They sang the folk songs they had learned by ear. Mothers sang old
2)……………………………… (gentle songs sung to make someone sleep) to their babies and repeated
old nursery rhymes, their mothers had taught them. At work men and women (3)………………………….
(repeated over and over again) old songs that paced the rhythm of their wood chopping and rowing. In the
days before printing of books – long before radio and television – the human voice was the chief
(4)…………………………………………….. (a device that is used to achieve something) for the spread
of literature. In one household, the grandmother might be the one who (5)……………………………….
(to amuse somebody to please them) with the old tales as she remembered them. In another it might be a
visitor from a nearby town who brought news and told stories as he heard them in his
(6)………………………………………. (people who lived in a particular place or
area)
(Entertained, chanted, trimmings, lullabies, happiness, community, measure)

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