Sutton SET English Mock Paper 6

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Everyone in the year group was asked to fill in a short ____ about the trip.Everyone in the year group was asked to fill in a short ____ about the trip.

1. Aquestionaire
2. Bquestionnaire
3. Cquestionnair
4. Dquestionnare
5. Equestionniare

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A total eclipse is a rare ____ in this part of the country.A total eclipse is a rare ____ in this part of the country.

1. Aoccurance
2. Boccurence
3. Coccurrence
4. Docurrence
5. Eoccurrense

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There is no proof of the creature's ____ beyond one blurred photograph.There is no proof of the creature's ____ beyond one blurred photograph.

1. Aexistance
2. Bexistence
3. Cexistense
4. Dexsistence
5. Eexistanse

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The club ____ writes up the minutes after every meeting.The club ____ writes up the minutes after every meeting.

1. Asecratary
2. Bsecretery
3. Csecretary
4. Dsecertary
5. Esecretry

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The repair to the vase was barely ____ from across the room.The repair to the vase was barely ____ from across the room.

1. Anoticable
2. Bnoticeable
3. Cnoticeble
4. Dnotisable
5. Enoticiable

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The judge warned the jury to set aside any ____ before hearing the evidence.The judge warned the jury to set aside any ____ before hearing the evidence.

1. Apredjudice
2. Bprejudise
3. Cprejudice
4. Dprejudace
5. Epredudice

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Each group carried out an ____ investigation.Each group carried out an ____ investigation.

1. Aindependant
2. Bindependent
3. Cindepedent
4. Dindependantt
5. Eindependantent

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Do not ____ the size of the fish you caught.Do not ____ the size of the fish you caught.

1. Aexagerate
2. Bexaggerate
3. Cexagerrate
4. Dexaggeratte
5. Eexaggarate

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Is Thursday a ____ day for you to collect the parcel?Is Thursday a ____ day for you to collect the parcel?

1. Aconvenient
2. Bconvienient
3. Cconveniant
4. Dconvenent
5. Econveinient

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The old ____ stood behind a wall of dark yew trees.The old ____ stood behind a wall of dark yew trees.

1. Acemetary
2. Bcemetery
3. Ccemetarye
4. Dcemetry
5. Esemetery

Why does the narrator remain in Flat 31 after the rest of the family leaves?

1. Ato wait for a delayed removal van
2. Bto hand the keys to the letting agent the next morning
3. Cto repaint the children's height marks
4. Dto return Mrs Sen's yellow umbrella
5. Eto repair the bathroom tap

In the telephone call near the start, which object does Mara want the narrator to find?

1. Aa yellow umbrella
2. Ba green crayon
3. Ca wooden button
4. Da red toy horse
5. Ethe queen of spades

What does Mrs Sen bring for the narrator to drink tea from?

1. Aa flask and two paper cups
2. Ba kettle and two china mugs
3. Ca teapot and one paper cup
4. Da bottle and two glass tumblers
5. Ea flask and one china mug

What had the wardrobe hidden in the main bedroom?

1. Aa cracked electrical socket
2. Ba patch of blue paint
3. Cpencil marks recording the children's heights
4. Da row of coat hooks
5. Ethe narrator's first shopping list

Which four items are written on the old shopping list?

1. Amilk, bread, tea and candles
2. Bmilk, bread, light bulbs and candles
3. Cbread, batteries, light bulbs and soap
4. Dmilk, kitchen paper, candles and tea
5. Ebread, light bulbs, matches and coffee

In the paragraph beginning 'The moment the lift doors closed', the narrator says that the flat 'raised its voice'.

Which option most precisely explains why its ordinary sounds seem louder now?

1. AThe family has gone, so the narrator pays closer attention to every remaining noise.
2. BThe fridge is silent, removing one of the sounds that usually fills the kitchen.
3. CBare floors and walls no longer absorb familiar sounds, so those sounds travel and echo.
4. DNo possessions remain to distract the narrator from noises made elsewhere in the building.
5. EThe narrator's unease makes a familiar home sound newly strange.

The narrator claps once in the empty sitting room, then wishes they had not when 'a thinner clap appeared to answer'.

Which option best explains this reaction?

1. AThe narrator has confirmed that the room now produces a clear echo.
2. BThe returned sound makes the empty room feel like an unfamiliar presence rather than the family's home.
3. CThe sharp noise reminds the narrator that the other flats can be heard more easily.
4. DThe experiment makes the narrator more conscious of being alone for the night.
5. EThe weaker reply emphasises how much softness has been removed from the room.

Mara says, 'I'm not looking for the red horse,' but tells the narrator where it may be and calls again later.

Which option best explains the contradiction?

1. AShe remembers exactly where the toy was last seen.
2. BShe thinks somebody else may have put the toy into the charity bag.
3. CShe wants the narrator, rather than Dad, to decide what happens to the toy.
4. DShe is still attached to the toy but protects herself from seeming childish by pretending not to care.
5. EShe is trying to manage the search from the new house because she cannot return herself.

After arranging the newly found objects on the windowsill, the narrator says they look 'like evidence'.

Which option best explains what they are evidence of?

1. AFurniture had concealed more dirt and clutter than the family realised.
2. BDifferent members of the family had lost small possessions over many years.
3. CThe move has exposed ordinary traces that prove the family's particular life happened in these rooms.
4. DThe narrator now has a collection of objects worth taking to the new house.
5. EEmptying a home reveals items too unimportant for the removal van.

Mrs Sen arrives with hot tea and cups, saying, 'Your kettle has gone,' before the narrator asks how she knew.

Which option best explains what this shows about her?

1. AShe has noticed how completely the family has packed the flat.
2. BShe expects the narrator to be tired and in need of a drink.
3. CShe uses a practical kindness to make a farewell visit without turning it into a grand emotional scene.
4. DShe knows the family's routines well enough to predict what the narrator has forgotten.
5. EShe wants a reason to sit in the empty room before her neighbours finally leave.

Mrs Sen says of the building's noises, 'You could always hear it. Your own things answered back, that was all.'

Which option most precisely explains her meaning?

1. AThe family's possessions made noises that competed with sounds from neighbouring flats.
2. BFamiliar belongings absorbed and surrounded outside sounds, making those sounds part of a lived-in home.
3. CThe narrator had become used to the building and usually ignored its regular noises.
4. DThe empty rooms now allow noises from above and below to travel more clearly.
5. EThe family used to answer noisy neighbours with sounds of their own.

The narrator takes three photographs of the children's pencil heights, 'though one would have been enough'.

Which option best explains the three photographs?

1. AThe marks are faint and difficult to capture clearly in the empty room.
2. BThe narrator wants a separate picture of every dated height record.
3. CThe narrator knows the marks will soon be painted over and cannot quite accept that one record is all that can be saved.
4. DPhotographing the skirting board is easier than removing it from the flat.
5. EThe extra pictures delay the next cleaning job for a little longer.

The old list reads, 'Milk, bread, light bulbs, candles.'

Why is this particular list important on the family's final night in the flat?

1. AIt proves that the corner shop once closed earlier than the family expected.
2. BIts mixture of food and lighting recalls the family's practical uncertainty on their very first evening.
3. CIt reminds the narrator which supplies are missing during the last night.
4. DIt shows that the narrator has always made short, efficient shopping lists.
5. EFinding it beneath the fridge shows how long the kitchen floor has been covered.

Before closing the door, the narrator keeps the red horse, the queen of spades and the old list.

Which option best explains why these three things are taken?

1. AThey are the only discoveries small enough to fit safely in a coat pocket.
2. BEach belongs clearly to a different member of the family.
3. CThey have become portable traces of family memory, unlike the rooms and marks that must be left behind.
4. DThe narrator wants to clear every object that might trouble the letting agent.
5. EThey are more valuable to the family than the coins, crayon and button.

The removal van 'swallowed the last tall thing, our bookcase'.

Select the TWO words closest to swallowed as it is used here.

Select TWO answers.

1. Aengulfed
2. Bdigested
3. Cconsumed
4. Dmeasured
5. Ereturned

The lift cables are described as 'worrying at one another inside the wall'.

Select the TWO words that best convey the meaning of worrying here.

Select TWO answers.

1. Afretting
2. Bgrinding
3. Cquestioning
4. Drubbing
5. Erepairing

Considering both of Mara's telephone calls, select the TWO most accurate words to describe her attitude to the red horse.

Select TWO answers.

1. Aguarded
2. Battached
3. Cindifferent
4. Dopenly distressed
5. Eforgetful

Think about Mrs Sen's visit, including the tea and the returned umbrella.

Select the TWO words that most accurately describe her manner.

Select TWO answers.

1. Aconsiderate
2. Bunderstated
3. Cceremonial
4. Dintrusive
5. Ecareless

The cleared rooms reveal several overlooked objects. Which item is NOT found in Text 1?

1. Aforty-seven pence
2. Ba silver earring
3. Ca green crayon
4. Dthe queen of spades
5. Ea wooden button

Four statements accurately describe the narrator's last evening in Flat 31. Which one does NOT?

1. AThe narrator drinks tea while sitting on the floor.
2. BThe narrator photographs the height marks three times.
3. CThe narrator cooks a final family meal in the kitchen.
4. DThe narrator speaks to Lena and Mara by telephone.
5. EThe narrator scrubs the kitchen after midnight.

During the late telephone call, which statement about the family at the new house is NOT correct?

1. ADoors can be heard banging behind Lena's voice.
2. BSami complains about the sound of the stairs.
3. CLena says the house does not sound like the family yet.
4. DMara asks again about the radiator.
5. ESami reports that his bedroom window is broken.

At the morning handover, which event does NOT take place?

1. AThe agent photographs a scuff in the hall.
2. BThe agent checks that the taps work.
3. CThe agent counts the keys twice.
4. DThe agent asks the narrator to repaint the skirting board.
5. EThe narrator closes the front door after surrendering the key ring.

Which details specifically help explain why Flat 31 sounds altered after the removal van leaves?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AThe hall has bare boards.
2. BThe fridge is no longer humming.
3. CThe sitting room produces an echo.
4. DMrs Sen lives in Flat 30.
5. EThe curtains no longer soften the early light.

Mara tries to hide how much the red horse matters to her. Which details expose her concern despite that attempt?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AShe rings before the van reaches the ring road.
2. BShe says Dad must not throw the horse away.
3. CShe identifies the radiator as the place to search.
4. DShe asks about the radiator again near midnight.
5. EShe admits that she placed the horse behind the radiator.

Once large furniture and appliances have been moved, which traces of earlier family life become newly visible?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. Asmall objects from beneath the sofa and washing machine
2. Bthe bookcase's pale footprint
3. Cheight marks from behind the wardrobe
4. Dthe old shopping list from beneath the fridge
5. Ea photograph hidden behind the bathroom mirror

The narrator is reluctant to let the final night end. Which actions suggest that reluctance?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. Ataking three photographs when one would record the marks
2. Barranging the found objects carefully on the windowsill
3. Ccleaning a patch by the door that is already clean
4. Dasking whether the new house sounds like the family yet
5. Egiving the key ring to the agent at eight precisely

After the near-midnight call ends, which events occur before the letting agent arrives?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AThe narrator finds the old shopping list.
2. BThe narrator sleeps in the sitting room.
3. CBlue light reaches the wall without curtains.
4. DMrs Sen returns the yellow umbrella.
5. EThe narrator drinks tea from the flask.

Mrs Sen's brief visit carries signs of a long neighbourly relationship. Which statements support that reading?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AShe knows the family's kettle has been packed.
2. BShe brings enough tea for herself and the narrator.
3. CA borrowed umbrella has stood behind her door since April.
4. DBoth households have begun to think of the umbrella as hers.
5. EShe helped the family carry the bookcase to the van.

Text 2 begins, 'People call me vacant, as if one impatient word could clear me.'

Which option best explains why the flat calls the word impatient?

1. AVacant describes the flat before taking account of the sounds still inside it.
2. BVacant is a word used by people who are eager for the next occupants to arrive.
3. CThe word reaches a quick judgement based only on missing people and ignores everything the flat still contains.
4. DThe flat dislikes being treated as though five rooms and a hallway amount to nothing.
5. EThe word suggests that human voices are the only sounds that count as an answer.

The flat says, 'I have held seven families, though I know none of their surnames. I know them by habits.'

Which option best explains the contrast?

1. AThe flat remembers repeated actions more reliably than occasional spoken words.
2. BFormal names matter less to the flat than the physical patterns of life enacted inside it.
3. CSome names reach the flat only when people call them or write them on a wall.
4. DThe flat can distinguish families even when it cannot identify them in the way people do.
5. ESeven sets of occupants have left different marks and sounds behind.

Furniture taken away 'continues in reverse'.

Which option most accurately explains this expression?

1. AMarks left by an object reproduce its former position as an absence.
2. BRemoving furniture exposes surfaces that have aged differently from the areas around them.
3. CDents and dust allow the flat to remember how a room was arranged.
4. DA missing object becomes more noticeable than it was while present.
5. EThe process of emptying a room reveals the opposite order from furnishing it.

The flat says, 'The world arrives in fragments, attached to people.'

Which option best explains what this means?

1. AThe windows show only a narrow and incomplete view of what lies outside.
2. BOccupants carry objects from the wider world into the rooms.
3. CThe flat understands outside life only through partial clues that people bring in with them.
4. DRain and summer become noticeable when they alter people's clothes and shoes.
5. EOnce people leave, the flat loses its main source of new information.

At the end, the flat says, 'They believe they have left me behind. I cannot follow them to discover whether that is true.'

Which option best explains the uncertainty?

1. AThe flat cannot see the van after it turns the corner.
2. BThe family has physically departed, but the flat cannot know whether memories of it travel with them.
3. CThe shapes left in the rooms make the family's absence continue to feel present.
4. DNew voices will eventually cover some signs of the previous occupants.
5. EUnlike people, the flat must remain in one position and wait for a new key.

Text 2 recalls several former occupants. Which statement is NOT correct?

1. ASeven families have lived in the flat.
2. BA boy's skates left curved grey marks.
3. CA couple put paper stars above a small bed.
4. DA baby slept all night and protested throughout the day.
5. EThe flat does not know any of the families' surnames.

Which detail is NOT used in Text 2 as a mark left by furniture or possessions?

1. Aa dark square protected from sunlight
2. Bfour dents
3. Ca clean stripe
4. Dislands of dust
5. Ea crack running across a window

The flat describes limits to what it can observe. Which claim about its view is NOT correct?

1. AIt can see a brick wall.
2. BIt can count twelve balconies.
3. CIt receives a narrow view of the sky.
4. DIt can watch a removal van all the way to its destination.
5. EIt learns about rain from wet sleeves.

Which statements rely on the speaker of Text 2 being a flat rather than a human observer?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AIt describes itself as five rooms and a hallway.
2. BIt says it has held seven families.
3. CIt experiences voices placing themselves against its walls.
4. DIt cannot follow people when they leave.
5. EIt knows that a baby once disliked the night.

Across its seven families, what kinds of human traces does the flat claim to retain?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. Amarks made by skates
2. Bdecorations fixed above a bed
3. Cnames spoken or written beside heights
4. Dthe smell left after fruit peel has gone
5. Ecomplete records of every family's surname

Because it cannot go outdoors, the flat interprets indirect signs. Which examples of that process appear in Text 2?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AWet sleeves tell it about rain.
2. BWarm discarded shoes tell it about summer.
3. CThe final key tells it a departure is complete.
4. DSounds from other homes tell it the building remains occupied.
5. EStreet signs tell it where the removal van is heading.

Text 2 says, 'Rooms are indiscriminate collectors.'

Select the TWO words closest to indiscriminate in this context.

Select TWO answers.

1. Aunselective
2. Bundiscerning
3. Corganised
4. Ddeliberate
5. Evaluable

Both texts challenge the idea that removing people and furniture leaves nothing behind. Which details contribute to that shared idea?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AText 1 uncovers coins, a crayon, a card and a button.
2. BText 1 reveals children's heights behind the wardrobe.
3. CText 2 describes outlines, dents and dust where objects stood.
4. DText 2 says rooms retain stray objects and lingering scents.
5. EBoth narrators say that every possession has been packed into the van.

Put the passages side by side. Which statements accurately connect their treatment of sound after a home is emptied?

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Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AText 1's narrator hears the lift machinery more clearly.
2. BText 2's flat hears other households become distinct.
3. CBoth texts suggest that occupants' own sounds formerly mixed with the building's noises.
4. DBoth texts present emptiness as revealing sound rather than producing complete silence.
5. EBoth texts say that all noises stop when the last key turns.

Each narrator has a different way of learning about places beyond the flat. Which comparisons are supported?

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Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AIn Text 1, a telephone carries sounds and news from the new house.
2. BIn Text 2, wet clothing and warm shoes carry clues about outdoor conditions.
3. CText 1's human narrator knows where the family has gone, but Text 2's fixed narrator cannot follow departing people.
4. DBoth narrators receive some knowledge indirectly rather than witnessing everything themselves.
5. EBoth narrators can see the removal van arrive at the new house.

Keys mark the boundary between occupation and emptiness in both passages. Which statements about that motif are correct?

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Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AText 1 begins with the narrator waiting to surrender the keys.
2. BText 1 ends the family's access when the key ring is handed over.
3. CText 2 uses a final turning key as evidence that departure is complete.
4. DText 2 expects a new key to announce future occupants.
5. EIn both texts, a key is lost beneath a large piece of furniture.

Children shape the identity of the home in both texts. Which evidence supports that connection?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AText 1 preserves Mara's and Sami's growth in pencil marks.
2. BText 1 links a hall scuff to Sami's scooter.
3. CText 2 remembers curved skate marks made by a boy.
4. DText 2 remembers both paper stars and a baby's nightly cries.
5. EBoth texts say children deliberately damaged the rooms.

The passages view the flat on different timescales. Which statements accurately describe how?

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Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AText 1 concentrates on the hours between one family's removal and handover.
2. BText 1 reaches back to that family's first evening through the shopping list.
3. CText 2 remembers several families rather than following one night's events.
4. DText 2 looks forward to voices arriving with a new key.
5. EBoth texts cover only events that happen between midnight and eight o'clock.

Text 1 briefly makes the building seem alive, while Text 2 sustains that idea through its narrator. Which examples fit this comparison?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. AIn Text 1, the flat raises its voice.
2. BIn Text 1, the bathroom tap announces itself.
3. CIn Text 1, lift cables worry at one another.
4. DIn Text 2, the flat remembers, interprets and admits what it cannot know.
5. EIn both texts, the flat physically walks after the departing family.

Which storytelling features belong specifically to the human account in Text 1, rather than to the flat's reflection in Text 2?

Select ALL that apply.

Select ALL the answers that are correct.

1. Aa sequence marked by exact times during one night
2. Bnamed family members and a named neighbour
3. Cdirect speech in face-to-face and telephone conversations
4. Da first-person narrator who can leave through the front door
5. Ea first-person voice that describes sounds inside the building

Which option most accurately describes the main difference between the two narrative voices?

1. AText 1 is a human's past-tense account of one departure; Text 2 is a flat's present-tense reflection across many occupations.
2. BText 1 speaks only about objects; Text 2 speaks only about people.
3. CText 1's narrator knows everything about the building; Text 2's narrator knows only one room.
4. DText 1 addresses the reader directly; Text 2 records a private telephone call.
5. EText 1 is narrated by a child; Text 2 is narrated by the letting agent.

Which option best describes the contrast in the narrators' attitudes towards the next occupants?

1. AText 1's narrator is angry with them, while Text 2 plans to refuse their key.
2. BText 1's narrator hardly considers them, being absorbed in this family's ending, while Text 2 calmly expects new voices to arrive.
3. CBoth narrators fear that the next family will erase every mark immediately.
4. DText 1 welcomes them through the letting agent, while Text 2 tries to warn them away.
5. ENeither narrator believes that anyone else will live in the flat.

Mrs Sen says in Text 1, 'Your own things answered back.' Read this beside Text 2's description of voices placing themselves against the walls.

Which option best connects the two ideas?

1. AA lived-in home seems to respond because familiar possessions and voices fill and soften its rooms.
2. BObjects in both texts can literally speak after their owners leave.
3. CNeighbours answer whenever a family makes too much noise.
4. DThe flat recognises a family only by the volume of its conversations.
5. EEmpty rooms prevent sounds from passing between different flats.

Why is the flat's own account an effective companion to the father's account of his last night in Flat 31?

1. ATogether they provide complete instructions for packing and inspecting a rented flat.
2. BThey recount the same handover twice, with every detail confirmed by both narrators.
3. COne follows the person who must leave and the other stays with the place left behind, revealing what each can notice and what each cannot know.
4. DThey prove that the flat remembers the narrator's family more clearly than any earlier family.
5. EThey show that moving home matters mainly because small possessions are often lost.