Cambridge IGCSE Chinese (Mandarin) - Foreign Language 0547 — 2018 May/June Paper 2 · Variant 3
0547/23/M/J/18 · 36 marks · ≈41 min
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MANDARIN CHINESE 0547/23 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 149689/2 © 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. * 4 4 8 6 0 1 1 0 6 1 *
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3 [Turn over 0547/23/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 小王爱吃葡萄。小王爱吃什么? [1] 2 房间里有电脑。房间里有什么? [1] 3 我哥哥是警察。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 0547/23/M/J/18 4 妈妈最喜欢冬天。妈妈最喜欢什么季节? [1] 5 医院里有很多人。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 0547/23/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 思思正在教室上课。 [1] 7 月月在动物园看老虎。 [1] 8 小美在沙发上看杂志。 [1] 9 兰兰每天都打篮球。 [1] [Total: 4] 2 × 15 = A B C D E
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6 © UCLES 2018 0547/23/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()。 在学校 今天,小张在教室上了音乐课。下课后,他去了 小卖部,买了一瓶果汁。 10 小张在教室做了什么? [1] 11 小张下课以后去了哪里? [1] 12 小张买了什么? [1] [Total: 3] 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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7 [Turn over 0547/23/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 非洲的 不好,但是很多人还是喜欢去。 [1] 14 我暑假去非洲旅游时, 很便宜。 [1] 15 我住的旅馆附近有 。 [1] 16 在森林里,我看到大象在 。 [1] [Total: 4] 非洲 很多人喜欢去非洲,那里环境不错,但是交通不太好。 我暑假去了那里。买飞机票花了很多钱,所以我住在小旅馆,非常 便宜。旅馆里的餐厅离森林很近,从那里去看动物很方便。 我看见了很多动物。大象在河边休息和洗澡,猴子在树上吃香蕉。 真有趣! 环境 餐厅 旅馆 洗澡 森林 交通 吃香蕉 飞机票
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8 © UCLES 2018 0547/23/M/J/18 Exercise 2 Questions 17–22 问题十七至二十二 请阅读下面的信,然后回答问题。 小王: 你好! 春节马上就要到了,你有什么计划吗? 下个星期我要去重庆参加姐姐的婚礼。爸爸买了三张软卧票, 每张三百九十六元,特别贵。 到了重庆,我们会住在花园酒店,很方便,因为酒店在火车站 对面,而且走路就可以到姐姐家。 我的行李很少,只有一个箱子,但是妈妈的很多。为了庆祝姐 姐结婚,妈妈准备了很多礼物,还有一个大红包。 参加完婚礼以后,我打算和妈妈去剧场看演出,然后我们会去 饭馆吃“水煮鱼”,那是我最喜欢的菜。 祝 好! 小李
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9 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 17 小李下个星期打算去重庆做什么? …[1] 18 小李的爸爸买了哪种火车票? …[1] 19 小李为什么觉得住在花园酒店很方便? (i) …[1] (ii) …[1] 20 小李带了什么行李? …[1] 21 小李的妈妈为婚礼准备了什么? (i) …[1] (ii) …[1] 22 婚礼后,小李和妈妈会先去哪里? …[1] [Total: 8]
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10 © UCLES 2018 0547/23/M/J/18 Section 3 第三部分 Exercise 1 Questions 23–26 问题二十三至二十六 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()。 毕业以后 马冬在农村长大,但是不想像爷爷那样当农民。他努力读书, 考上了一所有名的大学。毕业后学校想让他留下来当老师,但是他 喜欢电脑,就去了一家电脑公司做经理。三年前,他离开了那家公 司,开了一家自己的商店。 马冬的店既不在市中心,也不在商场,他在网上开了自己的 店。一开始,他想卖家具,但是钱不够。他又觉得卖衣服很没意 思,所以决定卖漂亮的花草,种在瓶子里。他说:“和植物在一起 很快乐,我好像又回到了在乡下的日子。” 他还说:“我本来以为成功就是能上最好的大学,有满意的工 作。我现在知道,能做好自己感兴趣的事才是成功。”
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11 [Turn over 0547/23/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 23 马冬做过什么工作? [1] 24 马冬的商店在 [1] 25 马冬的商店里有 [1] 26 马冬认为成功是 [1] [Total: 4] A C B 农民 老师 经理 A C B 网上 商场 市中心 A C B 家具 衣服 植物 A C B 上最好的大学 做好喜欢的事 有满意的工作
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12 © UCLES 2018 0547/23/M/J/18 Exercise 2 Questions 27–32 问题二十七至三十二 请阅读下面的短文,然后回答问题。 在美国留学 这几年,越来越多的中国学生选择出国留学。 李梅本来想在大学学数学,后来决定读物理。她几年前去了美 国,五天前刚刚回来。她说:“爸爸认为在国内生活更好,虽然有 一家美国公司让我去工作,但他还是叫我回国。” 在美国的时候,很多学生爱参加周末派对,但是李梅很少去。 她不是不喜欢玩,不过星期六她要在超市打工,星期天要去图书馆 读书。她说:“我很喜欢我的工作,不是为了挣钱,而是为了认识 新的朋友。” 李梅一直认真学习。她说:“除了学物理,我也努力了解美国 的文化。有空的时候,我就跟朋友练习英语,还去了一些地方走走 看看。”
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13 0547/23/M/J/18 © UCLES 2018 27 李梅在大学读了什么科目? …[1] 28 李梅是什么时候从美国回来的? …[1] 29 李梅的爸爸为什么让她回国? …[1] 30 周末李梅为什么很少参加派对? (i) …[1] (ii) …[1] 31 李梅为什么喜欢她的工作? …[1] 32 李梅怎么了解美国的文化? (i) …[1] (ii) …[1] [Total: 8]
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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 0547/23 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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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 2 of 10 1` General Marking Principles 1.1 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, but if the candidate has produced an answer that is another word in the target language they will not score (3.6). 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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0547/23 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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0547/23 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 (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 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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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 6 of 10 4 Detailed Mark Scheme Section 1 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 1 B 1 2 D 1 3 A 1 4 C 1 5 A 1 Section 1 Exercise 2 Question Answer Marks Guidance 6 A 1 7 B 1 8 D 1 9 E 1
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0547/23 Cambridge IGCSE – Mark Scheme PUBLISHED May/June 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 7 of 10 Section 1 Exercise 3 Question Answer Marks Guidance 10 C 1 11 D 1 12 B 1 Section 2 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 13 交通 1 14 旅馆 1 15 森林 1 16 洗澡 1
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0547/23 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 参加(姐姐的)婚礼 1 18 软卧 (票) 1 19(i) 酒店在火车站对面 1 19(ii) 走路就可以到姐姐家 1 Reject 可以到姐姐家 20 (一个)箱子 1 Reject 带很少行李;我的行李很少,只有一个箱子,但是妈 妈的很多。 21(i) 礼物 1 21(ii) (大)红包 1 22 剧场 1 Reject 去饭馆吃“水煮鱼”;看演出 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 2018 © UCLES 2018 Page 9 of 10 Section 3 Exercise 1 Question Answer Marks Guidance 23 C 1 24 A 1 25 C 1 26 B 1
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0547/23 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, 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 1: 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 27 物理 1 Reject 李梅本来想在大学学数学,后来决定读物理。 28 五天前 1 Reject 五天; 她几年前去了美国,五天前刚刚回来。 29 在国内生活更好 1 30(i) 星期六要在超市打工 1 Reject 她不是不喜欢玩 30(ii) 星期天要去图书馆读书 1 Reject 去图书馆 31 认识新的朋友 1 32(i) 跟朋友练习英语 1 32(ii) 去了一些地方走走看看 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)
What you needed in this session
Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2018 May/June, Paper 2 · Variant 3. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.