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O-LevelEnglish LanguageReading for MeaningMay/June 2017Paper 2 Q105 Marks

From the whole passage: Choose five of the following words or phrases. For each of them give one word or short phrase (of not more than seven words) which has the same meaning that the word or phrase has in the passage. unpremeditated (line 2) industry (line 5) set to (line 6) persisted (line 12) encouraged (line 31) dilapidated (line 38) reluctantly (line 44) comprehension (line 47)

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About This O-Level English Language Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level English Language (1123) May/June 2017 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Reading for Meaning and is worth 5 marks.

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