Cambridge IGCSE Chinese (Mandarin) - Foreign Language 0547 — 2018 May/June Paper 2 · Variant 1

0547/21/M/J/18 · 36 marks · ≈41 min

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MANDARIN CHINESE 0547/21 Paper 2 Reading May/June 2018 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. KI 149691/2 © UCLES 2018 [Turn over The syllabus is approved for use in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate. * 0 7 4 9 9 1 1 8 4 2 *

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3 [Turn over 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 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()。 1 小王爱吃苹果。小王爱吃什么? [1] 2 房间里有沙发。房间里有什么? [1] 3 我哥哥是记者。哥哥做什么工作? [1] A C B A B C D D A C B A B C D D A C B A B C D D

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4 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 4 妈妈最喜欢春天。妈妈最喜欢什么季节? [1] 5 教堂里有很多人。哪儿有很多人? [1] [Total: 5] A C B A B C D D A C B A B C D D

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5 [Turn over 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 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 思思今天早上头很疼。 [1] 7 月月将来想做秘书。 [1] 8 小美给朋友发短信。 [1] 9 兰兰喜欢用信用卡。 [1] [Total: 4] A B C D E

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6 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 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()。 节日 后天是新年,所以安安打算坐飞机回家,还准备了 很多礼物。 10 后天是什么节日? [1] 11 安安怎么回家? [1] 12 安安准备了什么? [1] [Total: 3] A C B 2019 2019 2019 2019 A B C D D A C B A B C D D A C B A B C D D

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7 [Turn over 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 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。 请用下列词组填空。 13 公园离中学比较 。 [1] 14 同学们坐 去公园。 [1] 15 在 里,金鱼游来游去。 [1] 16 学校每年都有 比赛。 [1] [Total: 4] 银山公园 银山公园离银山中学不近,但是路上风景很美。同学们喜欢坐 “森林火车”去那儿玩。 公园里不但有餐馆、小卖部、公共厕所等设施,还有一个大湖。 一百多条金鱼在湖里游来游去,很有趣。学校每年都有一次银山金 鱼拍照比赛,很受同学们的欢迎。 远 湖 船 火车 拍照 近 河 游泳

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8 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 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。 小李: 你好! 我和爸爸昨天刚从黄山回来,今天才回信,请原谅。 黄山是一个名胜古迹, 那里的山水非常美丽。我们在那儿玩了 两个星期。爸爸是画家又是作家,他在黄山的时候喜欢画风景。 有一次我们的导游忽然说:“看,猴子!”我要给猴子吃东西, 但是他叫我不要走得太近,猴子会偷我的手机。 中午,我们去了万里云餐馆。我觉得那儿的菜很好吃,可是 爸爸不同意,他说:“这些菜又咸又辣!还是去朋友家吃饭比较 好。” 祝 好! 小王

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9 [Turn over 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 17 小王去了哪里? …[1] 18 那里的山水怎么样? …[1] 19 小王在那里玩了多长时间? …[1] 20 他爸爸在那里喜欢做什么? …[1] 21 小王要给什么动物吃东西? …[1] 22 导游为什么叫小王不要走得太近? …[1] 23 他爸爸觉得万里云餐馆的菜怎么样? …[1] 24 他爸爸觉得他们应该去哪儿吃饭? …[1] [Total: 8]

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10 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 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()。 做饭兴趣班 我叫田天,是在美国长大的中国孩子。我的父母学习很好,但 我却不喜欢读书,只对做饭感兴趣。 一上中学,学校就开了食品课程,学习什么是健康食物。还开 了做饭兴趣班,学习怎样用便宜的东西做好吃的饭菜。 可惜到了九年级就没有做饭班了。我发现周末在别的学校有这 样的班,就问父母我能不能去。可他们就想让我在周末多做作业, 没答应我的要求。 我好朋友的爸爸是厨师,每次我去她家玩时,都会跟他学习怎 么做菜,包括中国菜。妈妈生日的时候,我给全家做了一顿好吃的 中餐,他们都说比妈妈做得还好。从此以后,他们愿意我上更多的 做饭班,学做不同国家的饭菜。

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11 [Turn over 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 25 田天的爱好是 [1] 26 做饭兴趣班 [1] 27 到了九年级,田天的爸爸妈妈希望她 [1] 28 现在,为什么田天的父母愿意让她上更多的做饭班? [1] [Total: 4] A C B 做饭 读书 吃饭 A C B 价钱非常贵 学习做好吃的饭 学习健康食物是什么 A C B 去别的学校 多做作业 上做饭班 A C B 给妈妈做生日餐 以后在餐馆工作 学做不同的饭菜

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12 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 Exercise 2 Questions 29–35 问题二十九至三十五 请阅读下面的短文,然后回答问题。 来英国上学 虽然英国的学费比中国的贵得多,但是不少中国家长觉得英国 的教育比较好,还是把孩子送到英国上学。十年前,来的大多是大 学生,现在一半以上是中学生。 英国中学有很多假期。放假时,留学生们有的回到自己的国 家,有的住在当地人家里。李云住在七十岁的英国老太太——露西 家。露西每天早上给她做英式早餐,看起来不错,可是李云不太喜 欢,因为和中式早餐太不一样了。 李云没有功课的时候,经常和露西聊天。这样露西可以了解中 国的事情,李云也能练习英语,对两人都有好处。李云说:“假期 不回家,会想父母,但我选择呆在英国人家里,这让我学到更多当 地的文化。”

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13 0547/21/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 29 哪个国家的学费比较贵? …[1] 30 为什么中国家长送孩子来英国上学? …[1] 31 现在的留学生有什么变化? …[1] 32 除了回国,假期时留学生们还可以住在哪儿? …[1] 33 为什么李云不喜欢英式早餐? …[1] 34 李云和露西经常聊天,这对她们有什么好处? (i) …[1] (ii) …[1] 35 李云为什么假期不回家? …[1] [Total: 8]

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16 © UCLES 2018 0547/21/M/J/18 BLANK PAGE Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. To avoid the issue of disclosure of answer-related information to candidates, all copyright acknowledgements are reproduced online in the Cambridge International Examinations Copyright Acknowledgements Booklet. This is produced for each series of examinations and is freely available to download at www.cie.org.uk after the live examination series. Cambridge International Examinations is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge.

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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 2018 [Turn over Cambridge Assessment International Education Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education MANDARIN CHINESE 0547/21 Paper 2 Reading May/June 2018 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 International will not enter into discussions about these mark schemes. Cambridge International is publishing the mark schemes for the May/June 2018 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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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 2 of 10 1 Generic Marking Principles 1.1 It is not possible to list all acceptable alternatives in the Detailed Mark Scheme provided in Section 2. 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 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, but if the candidate has produced an answer that is another word in the target language they will not score. 1.2 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. 1.3 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, e.g. 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.

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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 3 of 10 1.4 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) 1.5 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. 1.6 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 1.5 above).

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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 4 of 10 1.7 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 1.8 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 (eg ‘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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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 5 of 10 1.9 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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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 6 of 10 1 Detailed Mark Scheme Section 1 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 1 A 1 2 C 1 3 B 1 4 A 1 5 C 1 Section 1 Exercise 2 Question Answer Marks Guidance 6 A 1 7 E 1 8 C 1 9 B 1

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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 7 of 10 Section 1 Exercise 3 Question Answer Marks Guidance 10 D 1 11 C 1 12 B 1 Section 2 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 13 远 1 14 火车 1 15 湖 1 16 拍照 1

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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 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 1: GENERAL MARKING PRINCIPLES Question Answer Marks Guidance 17 黄山 1 18 (非常)美丽 1 19 两个星期 1 20 画风景 1 21 猴子 1 22 猴子会偷手机 1 23 又咸又辣 1 Reject 那儿的菜很好吃; 不同意 24 朋友家 1 Reject 在朋友家吃饭比较 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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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 9 of 10 Section 3 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 25 A 1 26 B 1 27 B 1 28 C 1

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0547/21 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 10 of 10 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. 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. Question Answer Marks Guidance 29 英国 1 30 (英国的)教育比较好 1 31 (现在)一半以上是中学生 1 Reject 英国学生有很多假期;十年前,来的大多是大学生, 现在一半以上是中学生。 32 当地人家里 1 Reject 露西家 33 和中式早餐太不一样了 1 34 (i) (露西可以)了解中国的事情 (ii) (李云)能练习英语 2 Reject 解中国的事情 36 学到更多当地的文化 1 Reject 因为会想父母 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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Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2018 May/June, Paper 2 · Variant 1. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.

A28/36
B24/36
C18/36
D16/36
E12/36
F9/36
G6/36