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Bah.. here are my answers, NOT the official ones. I have many grouses about the spelling errors esp COMA vs COMMA and the other two.. plus the poor choices of texts and contents including too many love stories/unbelievable babyhood recount/old English aka ol Mr Dickie and his morally questionable storyline/financial times level article... ah well.. who am I but a lowly English teacher to know better, right.
MUET Reading 800/4 Session 1 2023
1. B (It’s new to me!)
2. A (difficult – hard)
3. A (still completing my degree)
4. C (My sister… we write about fashion together)
5. B (made several very important medical breakthroughs)
6. B (he got it, he just couldn’t hold it and it fell)
7. C (she allowed him to play with the milk before cleaning)
8. A (the correct way to hold a bottle after trying again outside)
9. C (normal as it presents opportunities for learning)
10. A (months of long planning had finally paid off)
11. B (a blog – website)
12. C (farewell – sad)
13. B (so many more stories to tell)
14. B (goodbye – farewell)
15. C (was introduced during colonial edu system but can be made contemporary)
16. A (will host the Shakespeare Refreshed Festival next Saturday)
17. B (most paragraphs touch on the experiences of students)
18. A (improve speaking, records herself n listens to memorise her part)
19. C (A = X because it doesn’t focus only on movies, n students don’t just memorise lines)
20. A (Changed – localise, Article 1 ; adapt to local theatrical traditions; Article 2: local settings)
21. C – I could not remember how many times I had to tell myself not to react. (Keyword is the anaphoric reference to ‘dad’s actions’)
22. G – The accident was fatal. (Keyword is the cataphoric reference to ‘But’ meaning his mom died BUT he survived even though he was in a COMA, not COMMA!)
23. F – The one who never showed anything but hate towards me. (Keyword is the anaphoric reference to ‘my father’ who is the ‘one’)
24. B – He did not return my good deed at first; instead he went ahead to annoy me. (Keywords are the anaphoric reference to ‘kind gestures’ – synonymous of ‘good deed’)
25. E. He got so careful not to hurt, and maybe he had STARTED to love me. (Keywords are ‘I never gave him a chance’)
26. A – I felt like an angel, but still, I could not trust anyone because I was having a new opinion about the people whom I met. (Keywords are the anaphoric reference to source of happiness so she felt like an angel)
27. A (strolling – roam about)
28. B (having lost her way – Para 2: begged to be directed; Para 3: she had lost her road)
29. A (request – appeal)
30. A (his expression - stole a curios look at my face, as if to make quite sure I was not deceiving her)
31. D (master’s characteristics – a very kind person)
32. C (careful responses – she said no more about her home)
33. B (know more abt the girl – deprive him of the opportunity to gratify his curiosity)
34. D (hesitant: shy away from buying property – the opposite is given: needs steady economic growth)
35. B (slightly more unsold homes in 2019)
36. B (their ability to build more saleable units in the future)
37. D (related to budget)
38. B (effects for the overhang but this sounds too obvious) (TRICKY.. could be any of the 4, all seem to be causing the effects to be muted/diminished)
39. C (differ from the preference)
40. D (prefer second hand homes – subsale properties 59%)