2022 4E MYE Maris Stella

Class Index Number Name MARIS STELLA HIGH SCHOOL MID YEAR EXAMINATION SECONDARY FOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1128/02 Paper 2 Comprehension 28 April 2022 INSERT 1 hour 50 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This insert contains Text 1, Text 2 and Text 3. Answer all questions for Section A, Section B and Section C in the Question Booklet provided. At the end of the examination, submit separately: • Insert • Question Booklet This document consists of 5 printed pages including the cover page.

Section A [5 marks] Text 1 Refer to webpage below and answer Questions 1-4 in the Question Booklet. The Food Bank Singapore is recruiting junior Foodbankers aged 5 to 12 to encourage volunteerism from a young age! Ad – hoc volunteering opportunities and activities are held every quarter during the school holidays for children aged 5 to 12 years old. Click here to register your child as a Junior Foodbanker now! Warehouse Section The children will have a tour of Food Bank’s warehouse and assist in sorting, packing or taking inventory of the donations. Through this activity, the children will get to learn about identifying food categories, expiry learn about identifying food categories expiry labels and how our warehouse operates. Food Dis tribution through our Joy in Every Bundle Programme The children will assist in packing individual food bundles and distributing them to the homes of beneficiaries. Through this activity, the children will get to learn more about our beneficiary organisations, experience distributing food to those in need and understand their living conditions. LET’S END FOOD INSECURITY TOGETHER!

Section B [20 marks] Text 2 The text below describes the harrowing journey towards freedom of a Polish officer and his team. Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5-14 in the Question Booklet. 1 Two days without water in the hillocky, sand covered, August furnace of the Gobi Desert and I felt the first fluttering of fear. The early rays of the sun hit the tops of the billowing dunes and threw sharp shadows across the deep sanded floors of the intervening little valleys. Jitters came with small fast -beating wings and was suppressed as we sucked pebbles and dragged our feet on to make maximum distance before the blinding heat of noon. From time to time, one or other of us would climb one of the endle ss knolls and look south to see the same deadly landscape stretching to the horizon, Alarm about our position must have been very loud but no one voice it, the heat enveloped us, sucking the moisture from our bodies, putting ankle – irons of lethargy on our legs. Each one of us walked with his and her own thoughts and non spoke, dully concentrating on placing one foot ahead of the other interminably. 5 10 2 As we still walked in the rays of the setting sun the fear hit me again. It was, of course, the fundamental, most oppressive fear of al