Cambridge IGCSE Chinese (Mandarin) - Foreign Language 0547 — 2017 May/June Paper 2 · Variant 3
0547/23/M/J/17 · 36 marks · ≈41 min
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MANDARIN CHINESE 0547/23 Paper 2 Reading May/June 2017 1 hour 15 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. No Additional Materials are required. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE IN ANY BARCODES. Answer all questions. The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question. Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education This document consists of 12 printed pages and 4 blank pages. NL (CGW) 130807/3 © UCLES 2017 [Turn over The syllabus is approved for use in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate. * 0 2 4 2 0 9 8 9 4 2 *
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3 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 Section 1 第一部分 Exercise 1 Questions 1–5 问题一至五 选择唯一正确的答案,在方格里打勾()。 1 房间里有椅子。房间里有什么? [1] 2 今天姐姐穿了毛衣。今天姐姐穿了什么? [1] 3 爸爸在工厂工作。爸爸在哪儿工作? [1] A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D
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4 © UCLES 2017 0547/23/M/J/17 4 小王喜欢打台球。小王喜欢做什么? [1] 5 明天多云。明天天气怎么样? [1] [Total: 5] A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D
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5 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 Exercise 2 Questions 6–9 问题六至九 请看下面的图片,回答问题六至九。 选择唯一正确的答案,将字母填入方格中。 6 小红想去天安门玩。 [1] 7 小刚在图书馆做作业。 [1] 8 小文最喜欢吃热狗。 [1] 9 小伟今天肚子不舒服。 [1] [Total: 4] A B C D E
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6 © UCLES 2017 0547/23/M/J/17 Exercise 3 Questions 10–12 问题十至十二 请回答问题十至十二,选择唯一正确的答案,在方格里打勾()。 动物园 今天放假,小李骑自行车去动物园看了熊猫,还买了铅笔。 10 小李怎么去动物园? [1] 11 小李去看了什么? [1] 12 小李买了什么? [1] [Total: 3] A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D A B C D
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7 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 Section 2 第二部分 Exercise 1 Questions 13–16 问题十三至十六 请阅读下面的短文。 杭州西湖 杭州的西湖很有名,因为风景特别美丽。西湖旁边有一些茶 馆和酒吧,还有一个有几百年历史的庙。 去年我和父母开车去了杭州。游览西湖时,天气很热,人又 多,所以走得很慢。我们就决定去坐船,凉快多了。 我们过了愉快的一天。 请用下列词组填空。 快 茶馆 凉快 风景 酒吧 慢 庙 热 13 西湖的 …很美丽。 [1] 14 西湖旁边有一个古老的 …。 [1] 15 我们在游览西湖时走得很 … 。 [1] 16 在西湖上坐船,就不…了。 [1] [Total: 4]
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8 © UCLES 2017 0547/23/M/J/17 Exercise 2 Questions 17–24 问题十七至二十四 请阅读下面的信,然后回答问题。 小林: 你好! 上个星期五我参加了哥哥的生日派对,我的朋友大卫也来了, 大家都很友好。我们吃了各种各样的点心,还喝了一些果汁,但是 没有喝可乐,因为妈妈不让我们喝。我们一边吃东西,一边玩“警 察和小偷”的游戏。 哥哥的朋友张文今年暑假去了拉萨。他说,那里的天空非常 蓝。布达拉宫是他最喜欢的地方,他觉得很特别。 听了他的话,大家也都很想去拉萨,看看那里美丽的日出。 你最近有什么好玩的事吗? 祝 平安! 小刘
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9 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 17 小刘什么时候参加了生日派对? … [1] 18 除了哥哥,在派对上小刘还认识谁? … [1] 19 他们吃了什么? … [1] 20 他们为什么没有喝可乐? … [1] 21 在派对上他们玩了什么游戏? … [1] 22 拉萨的天空怎么样? … [1] 23 为什么布达拉宫是张文最喜欢的地方? … [1] 24 大家想去拉萨做什么? … [1] [Total: 8]
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10 © UCLES 2017 0547/23/M/J/17 Section 3 第三部分 Exercise 1 Questions 25–28 问题二十五至二十八 请阅读下面的短文,然后回答问题。选择唯一正确的答案,在方格内打勾()。 外国人乔治 乔治是一个德国人。他从大学开始学习汉语,毕业后又到中国 继续学习,他的中文水平很高。有一次,他在北京电视台用中文表 演节目。他的演出很成功,所以马上就出名了。 乔治认为,学外语一定要有兴趣。如果只是死读书,是很难学 好的。出名以后,很多公司想请他去做翻译,但他不感兴趣。他更 喜欢当英语老师。他说:“做老师可以帮助人们了解不同的语言和 文化。” 乔治的太太是中国人,她和子女一起住在德国。乔治在中国工 作,但是每三个月回一次德国。他说:“我的工作什么时候都可以 做,但是孩子们长大以后就会离开我们了,不能常常见面。”
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11 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 25 乔治出名了,因为他 中文水平很高 演出很成功 是德国人 [1] 26 乔治认为,学外语应该 有兴趣 做表演 去外国 [1] 27 出名以后,乔治 教英文 做翻译 教德语 [1] 28 乔治常常回德国,是为了 去上班 去旅游 见家人 [1] [Total: 4] C A B C A B C A B C A B C
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12 © UCLES 2017 0547/23/M/J/17 Exercise 2 Questions 29–34 问题二十九至三十四 请阅读下面的短文,然后回答问题。 手机软件 在中国,越来越多的人使用手机软件,特别是年轻人。 小张刚刚下载了一个手机软件。他说:“虽然用这个软件的人不 多,但我和朋友们都觉得不错。我不用花钱就能发短信,旅游的时候, 也可以发照片给朋友们看。” 明明去年从新加坡高中毕业,上个月去了美洲作交换学生。他 说:“我白天都很忙,只能在睡觉前用手机聊天软件给家人打电话, 而且那时候在国内是午饭时间,比较方便。” 刘文很喜欢用游戏软件,但他很少在寒假玩,因为要准备考试。 他说:“我在暑假的时候才有空玩一玩。我觉得玩手机游戏没什么不 好,就是特别浪费时间,所以学习的时候最好关掉。”
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13 0547/23/M/J/17 © UCLES 2017 29 小张觉得刚下载的手机软件怎么样? … [1] 30 小张用手机软件做什么? (i) … [1] (ii) … [1] 31 作为交换学生,明明在哪里读书? … [1] 32 明明为什么只在睡觉前用手机软件? (i) … [1] (ii) … [1] 33 刘文什么时候用游戏软件? … [1] 34 刘文觉得玩手机游戏有什么坏处? … [1] [Total: 8]
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Mark scheme, page 1
® IGCSE is a registered trademark. This syllabus is approved for use in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate. This document consists of 10 printed pages. © UCLES 2017 [Turn over Cambridge International Examinations Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education MANDARIN CHINESE 0547/23 Paper 2 Reading May/June 2017 MARK SCHEME Maximum Mark: 36 Published This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes should be read in conjunction with the question paper and the Principal Examiner Report for Teachers. Cambridge will not enter into discussions about these mark schemes. Cambridge is publishing the mark schemes for the May/June 2017 series for most Cambridge IGCSE®, Cambridge International A and AS Level and Cambridge Pre-U components, and some Cambridge O Level components.
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 2 of 10 1 The Standardisation process 2 General Marking Notes 3 General Marking Principles 3.1 It is not possible to list all acceptable alternatives in the Detailed Mark Scheme provided in Section 4. You will need to consider all alternative answers and unexpected approaches in candidates' scripts, make a decision on whether they communicate the required elements, in consultation with your Team Leader if necessary (or with your Product Manager if you are a single Examiner), and award marks accordingly. The following marking principles underpin the detailed instructions provided in Section 4 of the Mark Scheme. Where a decision is taken to deviate from these principles for a particular question, this will be specified in the Mark Scheme. Often the general principles will have to be weighed up against each other, e.g. the answer might pass the look-alike test (3.5(b)), but if the candidate has produced an answer that is another word in the target language they will not score (3.6). 3.2 Crossing out: (a) If a candidate changes his/her mind over an answer and crosses out an attempt, award a mark if the final attempt is correct. (b) If a candidate crosses out an answer to a whole question but makes no second attempt at it, mark the crossed out work.
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 3 of 10 3.3 More than the stipulated number of boxes ticked/crossed by the candidate: (a) If more than one attempt is visible, but the candidate has clearly indicated which attempt is his/her final answer (e.g. by crossing out other attempts or by annotating the script in some way), mark in the usual way. (b) If two attempts are visible (e.g. two boxes ticked instead of the 1 box stipulated), and neither has been crossed out/discounted by the candidate, no mark can be awarded. (c) Where candidates must tick a number of boxes (e.g. tick the 6 true statements) and tick too many, apply the following rule: deduct the number of 'extra' answers indicated by the candidate from their number of correct answers. The remaining number is the mark awarded, eg the candidate is asked to tick 6 statements, but ticks 8. 5 of the ticks are correctly placed, but 2 are 'extras' (8 ticks placed by candidate minus 6 ticks required by rubric = 2 ‘extras’). Therefore the candidate is awarded a mark of 3. (d) Answers in pen do not take precedence over answers in pencil, e.g. if a candidate is asked to tick 1 box and ticks two, one in pen and the other in pencil, the mark cannot be awarded unless there is explicit indication from the candidate as to which is his/her final answer. 3.4 For questions requiring more than one element for the answer, (i) and (ii), where the answers are interchangeable: (a) Both correct answers on line 1 and line 2 blank = 2. (b) Both correct answers on line 1 and line 2 wrong = 1 (or vice-versa) 3.5 Answers requiring the use of Chinese (rather than a non-verbal response) should be marked for communication. Tolerate inaccuracies provided the message is clear. (a) ‘If in doubt, sound it out’: if you read what the candidate has written, does it sound like the correct answer? (b) Look-alike test: does what the candidate has written look like the correct answer? (c) Accept incorrect gender or person unless Mark Scheme specifies otherwise. (d) Accept incorrect possessive adjectives, unless Mark Scheme specifies otherwise.
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 4 of 10 3.6 Unless the Mark Scheme specifies otherwise, do not accept incorrect Chinese if the word given means something else in Chinese. (Incorrect Chinese which constitutes a word in any language other than Chinese is marked (i) on the basis of whether it is accepted or refused in the Mark Scheme and (ii) if not mentioned in the Mark Scheme, on the basis of 2.5 above). 3.7 Annotation used in the Mark Scheme: (a) INV = Invalidation and is used when additional material included by the candidate is judged to invalidate an otherwise correct answer thus preventing him/her from scoring the mark (INV = 0). (b) tc = ‘tout court’ and means that on its own the material is not sufficient to score the mark. (c) HA = harmless additional material which in conjunction with the correct answer does not prevent the candidate from scoring the mark. (d) BOD = Benefit of the Doubt and is used to indicate that the Examiner has considered the answer/that part of the answer and judged it to be more correct than incorrect: the benefit of the doubt is given to the candidate and the mark is awarded 3.8 No response and '0' marks There is a NR (NO Response) option in scoris. Award NR (No Response): If there is nothing written at all in the answer space or If there is only a comment which does not in any way relate to the question being asked (e.g. 'can’t do' or 'don’t know') or If there is only a mark which isn’t an attempt at the question (e.g. a dash, a question mark). Award 0: If there is any attempt that earns no credit. This could, for example, include the candidate copying all or some of the question, or any working that does not earn any marks, whether crossed out or not.
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 5 of 10 3.9 Extra material: It is the candidate’s responsibility to answer questions in such a way as to demonstrate to the Examiner that s/he has understood the recorded material. Where candidates introduce extra, irrelevant material to an otherwise correct answer the danger is that the Examiner is being forced to ‘choose’ the correct answer and s/he cannot be certain that the candidate has shown understanding. Where the Examiner is put in this position the mark cannot be awarded. The Detailed Mark Scheme cannot cover all eventualities and where specific instructions are not provided, Examiners must check the transcript to ensure the correct elements which would qualify for the mark are not contradicted or distorted by any extra material. The following, general, rules should be applied: (a) Extra material, mentioned in the Mark Scheme, which reinforces the correct answer or in itself constitutes an alternative correct answer: this is acceptable and is not penalised (b) Extra material which constitutes an alternative answer, but which is not explicitly mentioned in the Mark Scheme: the Examiner needs to decide, by consulting the transcript/text and the Team Leader if necessary, whether the alternative answer constitutes: (i) an alternative correct answer, in which case this falls into category (a) and the answer should be rewarded or (ii) an answer which on its own would be refused, in which case this falls into category (c) and the answer should be refused (c) Extra material which constitutes an alternative answer specifically refused in the Mark Scheme: this puts the Examiner in the position of having to ‘choose’ which is the candidate's 'final' answer – the Examiner cannot be sure what the candidate has understood – and the mark cannot be awarded (d) Extra material which distorts or contradicts the correct answer: this affects communication – the Examiner cannot be sure what the candidate has understood – and the mark cannot be awarded (e) Extra material introduced by the candidate and which does not feature in the text/transcript: this affects communication – the Examiner cannot be sure what the candidate has understood – and the mark cannot be awarded. It can sometimes be difficult to draw the line between what is a deduction made by an able candidate on the basis of what they have heard/read and pure guesswork. Therefore where a particular answer is not covered in the Mark Scheme, Examiners should consult their Team Leader
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 6 of 10 4 Detailed Mark Scheme Section 1 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 1 A 1 2 D 1 3 B 1 4 A 1 5 B 1 Section 1 Exercise 2 Question Answer Marks Guidance 6 B 1 7 E 1 8 A 1 9 D 1 Section 1 Exercise 3 Question Answer Marks Guidance 10 A 1 11 B 1 12 C 1
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 7 of 10 Section 2 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 13 风景 1 14 庙 1 Reject 茶馆 15 慢 1 16 热 1 Reject 凉快;快
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 8 of 10 Section 2 Exercise 2 • In this exercise, reward the candidate for being able to locate the answer in the passage. • Ignore extra material (whether Chinese is accurate or inaccurate) unless the Mark Scheme specifies otherwise. • Accept lifting unless it is specifically refused in the Mark Scheme. • READ SECTION 3: GENERAL MARKING PRINCIPLES Question Answer Marks Guidance 17 上个星期五 1 Reject 他哥哥的;星期五 18 大卫 1 Reject 大家 19 点心 1 Reject 东西;果汁 20 妈妈不让我们喝 1 21 警察和小偷 1 22 非常蓝 1 23 很特别 1 24 看(那里美丽的)日出 1 Note: For questions with 2 interchangeable answers: 2 correct answers on line 1, line 2 blank = 2; 2 correct answers on line 1, line 2 wrong = 1 (or vice versa)
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 9 of 10 Section 3 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 25 B 1 26 A 1 27 A 1 28 C 1 Section 3 Exercise 2 Look for signs of genuine comprehension. Usually, candidates who lift indiscriminately fail to demonstrate comprehension and will not score the mark. However, careful lifting of the details required to answer the question does demonstrate comprehension and should be rewarded. This Detailed Mark Scheme provides specific guidance but in cases not covered, see General Marking Principles, Section 3.10 In this section, take into account the whole of the candidate’s answer. We are still applying the sound-alike rule. READ SECTION 3: GENERAL MARKING PRINCIPLES FOR ANSWERS NOT COVERED BY MARK SCHEME, ANNOTATION TOOL MAY BE USED, e.g. INV or BOD REFUSE DIRECT SPEECH HOWEVER IT IS PRESENTED.
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2017 © UCLES 2017 Page 10 of 10 Question Answer Marks Guidance 29 不错 1 30(i) 不用花钱发短信 1 Reject 发短信 30(ii) 发照片(给朋友看) 1 31 美洲 1 32(i) 白天都很忙 1 32(ii) 在国内是午饭时间, (比较方便) 1 33 暑假 1 Reject 很少在寒假玩 34 (特别)浪费时间 1 Note: For questions with 2 interchangeable answers: 2 correct answers on line 1, line 2 blank = 2; 2 correct answers on line 1, line 2 wrong = 1 (or vice versa) TICK BLANK PAGES
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Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2017 May/June, Paper 2 · Variant 3. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.