English Language Paper 2 November 2024

1. AShe was reading the overnight police logs
2. BShe was typing a letter to a friend
3. CShe was watching television in the living room
4. DShe was pulling on her boots and parka

1. ATo collect his brother Albert from the bookstore
2. BTo buy a copy of the Red Cross lifesaving manual
3. CTo take a lifesaving class at the swimming pool
4. DTo meet his father at work before the shops shut

1. Amanual
2. Bcopy
3. Cletter
4. Dslip

1. ASeven
2. BFour
3. CFive
4. DSix

1. AIts magnitude was measured at 9.2 on the Richter scale by scientists
2. BIts epicentre lay one hundred and twenty-one kilometres east of Anchorage
3. CIt is still ranked only second among all earthquakes measured to date
4. DFifty-two separate aftershocks followed it over the next three days

1. AIt was shaken sideways constantly
2. BIt was lifted permanently upwards
3. CIt was pushed upwards briefly
4. DIt was pulled downwards steadily

1. AThey had no working clocks at all, and the radio station was off the air
2. BThe aftershocks went on for three days, and eleven of them were above 6.0
3. CThey were far from home, and the traffic lights downtown had all gone out
4. DThey feared for their lives, and the shaking was violent and destructive

1. AThat her husband was trapped at his work, and that the car would not start again
2. BThat the neighbours had fled the street, and that the telephone lines were all down
3. CThat the house had collapsed, and that Albert and Jan had been killed or badly hurt
4. DThat the chimney had crumbled, and that the inside of the house had been left a mess

1. AHalf of her body was buried under the fallen debris
2. BShe was only half the size of an ordinary woman
3. CShe was lying face down and could not be recognised
4. DShe had been cut clean in two by the falling debris

1. AThe pavement rolled along like a wave and cars were swallowed by the earth and then thrown straight back out
2. BThe bars along the street were all below ground level and the men inside came out still clutching their drinks
3. COne side was untouched while the other had dropped three metres, yet the buildings down there still stood intact
4. DThe roof of the new J.C. Penney had slumped inward and its exterior had spilled plaster and lumber down the block

1. AShe told listeners to stay indoors and share their transistor radios
2. BShe spoke quickly and kept her broadcast as short as she possibly could
3. CShe left out the horrific things she had seen and played down the damage
4. DShe waited until the aftershock had passed before she began speaking

1. Arelented: came to an end; stumbled: crawled; ferociously: violently; preceded: came before; raced: rushed
2. Brelented: stopped completely; stumbled: found by chance; ferociously: proudly; preceded: followed; raced: competed
3. Crelented: hardened; stumbled: hesitated; ferociously: loudly; preceded: predicted; raced: crawled
4. Drelented: eased off; stumbled: lurched; ferociously: violently; preceded: came before; raced: rushed

1. AThe car bucked and bounced, a jolt knocked out the traffic lights, power lines snapped, parked cars banged together, a building swayed and cracked, the road rolled like a wave, and the earth swallowed cars
2. BThe J.C. Penney roof slumped inward, one side of Fourth Avenue simply dropped three metres, the bars along it sank below ground level, and a woman with a broken neck lay trapped alive inside a flattened car
3. CGenie drove home through the fallen power lines, found the chimney down and the whole house in a mess, then went back downtown and reported the damage over her car's two-way radio
4. DFifty-two separate aftershocks struck over the next three days, eleven of them above 6.0, an uninhabited island moved twenty-one metres, and a swimming pool in Louisiana jiggled

1. Awas
2. Bwere
3. Care
4. Dhave been

1. Aare
2. Bwere being
3. Cwas
4. Dwere

1. AGenie never sets out for the city's Public Safety Building in the morning.
2. BGenie seldom sets out for the city's Public Safety Building in the morning.
3. CGenie often sets out for the city's Public Safety Building in the evening.
4. DGenie always sets out for the city's Public Safety Building in the morning.

1. AThe General ordered the fireman to retreat.
2. BThe General ordered the fireman to advance quickly.
3. CThe Private ordered the fireman to advance.
4. DThe General ordered the fireman to proceed.

1. APeople had advised Genie to check their supplies.
2. BPeople were advised by Genie to check their supplies.
3. CPeople were advising Genie to check their supplies.
4. DGenie was advised by people to check their supplies.

1. AShe struck the falling debris.
2. BThe falling debris had been striking her.
3. CThe falling debris was struck by her.
4. DThe falling debris struck her.

1. Adestroying
2. Bdestruction
3. Cdestroyed
4. Ddestructive

1. Arelaxed
2. Brelaxes
3. Crelaxation
4. Drelaxingly

1. Ain
2. Bat
3. Cfor
4. Don

1. Aupon
2. Bwithin
3. Conto
4. Dinto

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1. ATo fetch his eight-year-old sister Jan from the neighbour's house before dark
2. BTo buy a copy of the Red Cross lifesaving manual for his swim class the next day
3. CTo return a library book before the bookstore closed at six o'clock that evening
4. DTo collect his father, Big Winston, who was still at work in the city centre

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1. AIt struck one hundred and twenty-one kilometres to the east of Anchorage
2. BIt was the second most powerful earthquake ever measured at that time
3. CIts epicentre lay only about twenty-five kilometres below the ground
4. DIts magnitude reached 9.2 on the Richter scale when it was measured

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1. AThe evening was growing dark outside, and the KENI radio station had been knocked off the air
2. BThe temperature outside was dropping fast, and the bookstore had already closed for the day
3. CThe traffic lights had failed at the crossing, and Genie believed her car had blown a tyre
4. DPeople feared for their lives, and the quake was doing violent, severe damage all around them

1. AThe chimney crumbled, and the television set broken beyond repair
2. BBig Winston home early from work, and the neighbour's house standing empty
3. CThe car gone from the driveway, and her unfinished letter lost in the mess
4. DTheir house destroyed, and Albert and Jan dead or severely injured

1. AHalf of the woman's body was hidden under the debris that had struck her
2. BThe woman was crouching low in the snow with only her upper body still showing
3. CThe woman was so small and slight that Genie had mistaken her for a young child
4. DOnly half of the people who had been standing near the woman had survived the quake

1. AOne side of the street looked untouched while the other had dropped three metres, with buildings still intact down in the chasm
2. BEvery building on both sides of the street had collapsed into rubble, and nothing recognisable was left standing along the two blocks
3. CThe street had flooded from the harbour, and cars were floating past their parking metres towards the sunken bars and the pawnshop
4. DThe police had closed the whole avenue to traffic, and volunteers were clearing a flattened car with their bare hands beside it

1. AShe read out the names of the missing on air so that their families would stop searching for them
2. BShe played records between her reports so that the listeners would have time to calm themselves down
3. CShe left out the horrific scenes she had witnessed and underplayed the extent of the damage
4. DShe told her listeners that the earthquake had been a minor one and that nobody had been hurt

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1. AThe traffic light ahead of them at C Street and Ninth suddenly went dark
2. BThe electrical lines above the intersection began snapping like whips
3. CCars at the service station across the street started bouncing about
4. DThe car started bucking as soon as Genie's foot touched the brake pedal

1. AIt opened a metre-wide crevice in the road surface directly in front of Genie's car
2. BIt knocked the traffic lights out and set the overhead electrical lines snapping
3. CIt threw the car sideways into the adjacent lane and burst one of its front tyres
4. DIt cracked the masonry of the liquor store's wall and brought the whole front down

1. AThey bounced into one another and separated again, like an accordion opening and closing
2. BThey rolled downhill into the intersection at C Street and Ninth and blocked the road both ways
3. CThey were swallowed one after another as the ground yawned open beneath the station's forecourt
4. DThey were lifted clear off the ground and dropped again into the lane beside Genie's own car

1. AHe tried to protect the women by pinning each one against the wall of the building
2. BHe led the two women back across the rolling road to take shelter beside Genie's car
3. CHe ran back inside the liquor store to fetch the other customers who were still in there
4. DHe lay flat on the heaving pavement and told the women to stay down until the shaking stopped

1. AIts front wall collapsed outward onto the pavement, spilling plaster, lumber and concrete up the block
2. BIt dropped three metres into a ragged chasm that ripped open under the street beneath its foundations
3. CIts roof slumped inward as though somebody had stepped on the structure and its insides had slipped out
4. DIt bent left and then right, and a crack opened in the masonry over the man's head and closed again

1. AIt rolled away in waves without breaking apart, as if a creature surged under its surface
2. BIt split into metre-wide crevices that opened and closed again in front of the car, one after another
3. CIt sank three or so metres on one side of the intersection while the other side stayed completely level
4. DIt buckled upward into a solid ridge that lifted the front of the car clear of the ground for a moment

1. AA raven trying for several seconds to land on a thrashing street light before giving up
2. BA cast-iron pot of beef stew hopping by itself off the fireplace inside the house across the street
3. CA woman jumping over metre-wide crevices with her baby as they split open one after another in front of her
4. DA row of parked cars sinking below ground level along with the bars and the pawnshop behind them

1. AShe jumped over the widening crack with her baby in her arms and reached safety
2. BShe watched the earth close over the car for good and set off home on foot without it
3. CThe ground thrust upward and threw the car she had never liked back out again
4. DShe was pulled into the crevice after the car and had to be dug out by volunteers

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1. AGenie was advised by people to check their supplies.
2. BPeople were advised by Genie to check their supplies.
3. CPeople are advised by Genie to check their supplies.
4. DPeople had been advising Genie to check their supplies.

1. AThe falling debris was struck by her.
2. BShe struck the falling debris.
3. CThe falling debris struck her.
4. DThe falling debris strikes her.

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