Cambridge Primary Progression Test

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English Paper 1 For teachers use

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No additional materials are required.
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READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST.
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Answer all questions in the spaces provided on the question paper.
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You should pay attention to punctuation, spelling and handwriting. 9

The number of marks is given in brackets at the end of each question or 10

part question. The total number of marks for this paper is 50.
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Suggestions for how long to spend on each section are given in the booklet.
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Total

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Section A: Reading For
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Spend 20 minutes on this section.

Read the text from a website below. Then use the information in the text to answer
the questions.

Sound

Have you ever lost your voice? Then youll know how important speaking is for
us, because its the main way that humans communicate with each other.

How do we speak? When we speak, we push air

from our lungs inside our body past the vocal chords
in our throat. Vocal chords are like the strings of a
violin. The air from our lungs makes the vocal chords
move. Then the air reaches our mouth.

When we speak and sing, three things help us to

control the sound of our voice: first, the speed of the
air from our lungs; second, the shape of our mouth;
third, the position of our tongue. The air comes out
of our mouths as sound waves. These waves are
measured in hertz (Hz). Human voices are about
1,000 Hz.

How do animals use sound? Animals use a range of sounds to communicate

with each other. For example, howler monkeys make some of the loudest
sounds in the animal world. You can hear their screams of around 6,000 Hz
up to 16 kilometres away! They use their noses to blow out powerful blasts of
air. Some of the lowest sounds are made by frogs. They can make surprisingly
low croaks as low as 50 Hz. They do this by blowing up their throats almost
as big as they are!

Use the text Sound to answer the questions.

1 What is the main way in which humans communicate?

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2 Draw lines from the words to label the diagram. For
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lungs

vocal chords

mouth
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3 Which animal uses its nose to make loud sounds?

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4 Number these 1, 2 and 3 from the lowest sound (1) to the highest (3).

human

howler monkey

frog [2]

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5 Look at the whole text Sound. For
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Tick (9) the sentence which tells us what the text Sound is about.

Its about how our lungs work.

Its about how loud animals are.

Its about different ways of making music.

Its about how humans and animals make sound.

[1]

6 The writer names different parts of the human body that make sound.

Add to this list one more part of the human body that is in the text and is used
for speech.

lungs, vocal chords, throat, mouth, ............................................... [1]

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This text is from an information book. Read it and then answer the questions. For
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Hearing sound
outer ear inner ear Your ears collect sounds and send
eardrum sound signals to your brain. Sound
waves enter the outer ear (the thing
on the side of your head) and travel
inside, where they bump up against
the eardrum. Inside the ear, tiny hairs
cilia called cilia move and send signals to
the brain, which then changes these
signals into the sounds we hear.

Imagine closing your eyes and listening to someone clap their hands. Youll be
able to point at that person because your two ears will tell you where the sound
came from.

The loudness of sound is measured in decibels (dB). The louder the sound, the
more decibels. Listening for a long time to a loud noise above 90 decibels can
damage your hearing. Why does this happen? Well, loud sounds cause some
cilia to die. And when cilia die, they cannot grow back. We are born with only
about 3,500 of these, so be careful to protect your hearing from loud noises!

Decibels Sound
120 ambulance siren
110 rock concert
105 personal stereo at maximum level
95 motorcycle
85 heavy traffic
60 normal conversation
30 whisper

A child can hear sounds up to 20,000 Hz, but most 60-year-olds cant hear
sounds over 12,000 Hz.
Grasshoppers ears are in their knees.
The stapes bone in the ear is the smallest bone in the human body. Its
only 0.25 to 0.33 cm long and weighs between 1.9 and 4.3 milligrams.

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7 Complete the sentence below with a number. For
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Its dangerous to listen to sounds that are more than ............. decibels for a
long time. [1]

8 Why is it important not to damage the cilia?

1 .......................................................................................................................

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9 Match these facts and numbers.

12,000 Hz the number of hairs in the inner ear

85 decibels what a 60-year-old can hear

3,500 the length of the smallest bone in the body

0.25 centimetres the noise of heavy traffic

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10 What could a rock concert do to your hearing?

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11 (a) Tick one box to show what this text is for.

To give you:

information about hearing

a report on traffic problems

a review of music to listen to

instructions about how to hear

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(b) Draw lines to link each paragraph with its heading. For
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1st paragraph Do you know these facts?

2nd paragraph How loud is too loud?

3rd paragraph How do we know where sound comes from?

4th paragraph How do our ears help us to hear?

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Section B: Writing For
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Spend 25 minutes on this section.

12 The reading texts are from a website and an information book.

Write your own information text for a book or a website which has the title
The sounds around us.

You could write about:

the different things we hear

sounds you like or dont like
what we choose to listen to
noises in different places.

PLANNING

Spend up to 5 minutes making notes in the box to plan your information text.

Purpose and Audience [6] Punctuation [2]

Text Structure [5] Spelling [2]

Sentence Structure [5]

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Section C: Grammar, punctuation and vocabulary For
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Spend 15 minutes on this section.

13 Add one full stop and one capital letter to make two sentences.

Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist his wife and mother were both
deaf and he was interested in the study of sound. [1]

14 Draw lines to link the underlined word in each sentence with the kind of word it
is.

When cilia die, they cannot grow

adjective
back.

Sounds we hear from things like jet

noun
engines can be very loud.

The stapes is the smallest bone in

verb
the body.
[2]

15 Underline the pronoun in this sentence.

You need vocal chords in order to speak. [1]

16 Change these sentences from singular to plural. The first one has been done
for you.

Singular Plural

A human being hears sounds. Human beings hear sounds.

He listens to music. ............................................................

It is a horrible noise. ........................................................ [2]

17 Underline all the words that Paul spoke.

I will close my eyes, said Paul to Jane. You can then clap very loudly. [2]

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18 Add a verb to complete this sentence. For
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Howler monkeys ................................................... loud animals! [1]

19 (a) Choose a word to join the sentences.

Most people like the sound of the violin ................................ some people
dont. [1]

(b) Draw lines to join the parts to make good sentences.

We can hear the direction a so its important to protect

noise is coming from them.

Grasshoppers ears are on and they can hear through

their knees these.

Loud sounds can damage our

because we have ears.
ears
[2]

20 Write the full form of these words. The first one has been done for you.

Short form Full form

its it is

shouldnt ............................................................

theyre ............................................................

youll ........................................................ [2]

21 Read this sentence from the text Hearing sound.

Listening for a long time to a loud noise above 90 decibels can damage
your hearing.

Write a different word that means the same as damage.

damage ................................................... [1]

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Copyright Acknowledgements:

Section A Reading The Dorling Kindersley Science Encyclopedia; Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd; 1997.
Question 6 http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season8/hearing/facts.cfm

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