2022 EL EOY Victoria School

Section A Study the online poster ( Text 1) and the excerpt from a newspaper report ( Text 2) and answer Question 1-4 in the Question Booklet. Text 1 is taken from an online poster for a police-community alert service. Text 2 is taken from a Straits Times article on a Digital Workshop. Madam Linda Lee, 78, Said she was often confused by unknown callers and had reported suspi cious calls to the police on several occasions. She added, “I’m afraid that they’d scam me so I need to learn and know how to identify these clues. Technology is very convenient, but it progresses so quickly.”

Section B Text 3 The text below is an account of Kingshaw running away from home when he was attacked by the largest crow he had ever seen. Read the text carefully and answer Question 5-13 in the Question Booklet. 1 When he first saw the crow, he took no notice. There had been several crows. This one glided down into the corn on its enormous. ragged black wings. He began to be aware of it when it rose up suddenly, circled overhead, and then dived, to not very far away from him. Kings haw could see the feathers on its he ad, shining devilish black between the butter -coloured cornstalks. Then it rose, and circled, hovering like and eagled eyeing its prey. It then swooped down again, this time not quite landing, but flapping about his head, beating its wings and making a sou nd like flat leather pieces being slapped together. It was the largest crow he had ever seen . As it came down for the third time, he looked up and noticed its hard, chisel -like beak, opening in a screech. The inside of its mouth was scarlet; its small eyes glinting with evil intent. 5 10 2 With his heart in his mouth, Kingshaw got up and flapped his arms. For a moment, the bird retreated a little way off, and higher up in the sky. He began to walk rather quickly back, through the path in the corn, looking ahead of him, beads of perspiration forming on his forehead while his bre ath came in quick staccatos. Stupid to be scared of a rotten bird. What could a bird do But he felt his own extreme isolation, high up in the cornfield. For a moment, he could only hear the sound thudding of his own footsteps, and the silky sound of the co rn, brushing against him. Then, there was a rush of air, as the great crow came beating down, and wheeled about his head. The beak opened and the hoarse caw came again and again, from inside the scarlet mouth. 15 20 3 His heart now like a wild beast trying to break free from its cage, Kingshaw began to run, not caring now if he trampled the corn, wanting to get away, far far away down into the field. He thought that the corn might be some kind of crow’s food store, in which he was seen as and invader. Perhaps this was only the first of a whole battalion of crows that would rise up and swoop at him. ‘Get on the grass then’, he thought, ‘get on the grass, that’ll be safe. It’ll go away. ’ He