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    The document is an English test containing two sections - a reading comprehension section and a writing section. The reading comprehension section contains a passage describing a train station in India and asks students 8 multiple choice questions about details in the passage. The writing section prompts students to write 3 paragraphs continuing the story on the train, suggesting they include descriptions of other passengers, the scenery outside the window, and details about where the narrator is traveling.

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    CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 7: END OF UNIT 1 TEST

    Name Date

    End of unit 1 test


    Section A: Reading
    Read the extract from Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh, then answer questions 1–8.

    Chennai Egmore station could be heard before it was seen. A cacophony erupted
    as we made our way under the arches, running after Subbu who had been
    instructed to come with us to the platform. Indian stations are not designed for
    running. An assault course lay between us and Subbu, who was winding deeper
    5 and deeper into the sea of boxes. We ducked and wove around the slalom of
    wooden carts wheeled by men with no sense of urgency, strings of hand-holding
    children, hobbling dogs, stacked hessian sacks, nose-pickers, watersellers,
    booksellers and red-shirted porters. Subbu now stood by our train, under a
    digital sign reading B2, his face powder dry, as we
    10 bent double, sweat running down our bodies.
    Engines hissed and thudded as they began to move, high-pitched
    announcements singing out in breakneck-speed Tamil, while the smell of dried
    fish crept up my nostrils. Passepartout leapt about, clicking away, and I smiled
    weakly for the camera before boarding the Anantapuri Express to Nagercoil.
    15 Subbu had already found our seats and placed our bags on each by the time we
    squeezed through. Thanking him, we dug out bottles of water, notebooks, pens,
    toilet paper, flannels and flip-flops, much to the amusement of our companions
    who had already chained up bags, hidden shoes, plugged in phones and sat
    down cross-legged, watching us. At 7.20pm the train jerked. Subbu bowed and
    20 slunk off as the train glided out of the station. Through the tinted window he
    was soon no more than a saluting silhouette. We were on the move.

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    CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 7: END OF UNIT 1 TEST

    1 What does the first sentence tell you about Chennai Egmore station?

    [1]

    2 What does ‘we ducked and wove’ (lines 5–6) tell you about how they were running?

    [1]

    3 What does ‘wooden carts wheeled by men with no sense of urgency’ (lines 6–7) tell you about the
    way that the carts were moving?

    [1]

    4 Look at lines 8–16. Explain, using your own words, the difference between Subbu’s
    and the narrator’s physical conditions.
    Subbu is

    The narrator is [2]

    5 Give two powerful verbs that suggest that the train is noisy (lines 11−13).

    [1]

    6 Explain, using your own words, why the narrator can only smile ‘weakly for
    the camera’ (lines 13–14).
    [1]

    7 What is the effect of describing Subbu as a ‘saluting silhouette’ (line 21)?


    [1]

    8 What is interesting about the structure of the final paragraph, and why is it effective
    for the reader?
    The structure is interesting because

    It is effective because

    [2]

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    CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 7: END OF UNIT 1 TEST

    Section B: Writing
    1 Now write the next part of the adventure on the train. You should write three paragraphs.
    You could include:
     what the other passengers are like
     what the narrator can see out of the window
     where they are going and why. [10]

    Space for your plan:

    3
    Cambridge Lower Secondary English 7 – Creamer, Williams, Rees-Bidder & Elsdon © Cambridge University Press 2021
    CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 7: END OF UNIT 1 TEST

    Write your paragraphs:

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