St Andrews Secondary School Prelim 2021 Eng Paper 2 - Insert

Index Class Number Candidate Name --------------- ~ ST ANDREW'S SECONDARY SCHOOL - PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 ~ SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS/ 5 NORMAL ACADEMIC ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ~T ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL 5T ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST' ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Comprehension INSERT WEDNESDAY 11 AUGUST 2021 READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains Text 1, Text 2 and Text 3. 1128/02 1 hour 50 minutes EL7015YV/TYH/SP C> SAS 2021 This question paper consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over

Section B Text 2 \ The text below describes a woman's feelings as she was preparing to move into her new flat. Read it carefully and answer Questions 5 to 13 in the Question Booklet. 1 It was no coincidence, thought Gina, gazing around her empty new flat, that Heaven ~s commonly{assumed to t>e a t>ig Whltero om with absolutely nothing in J. Something about this ~ n. peaceful spacetn ade her feel calmer than she had in weeks. She stepped towards the mo'! (picture wiodow with its P-anoramlc.Ylew over tlie6 rowrt.§.ncl grey rooftops 1Jeyonatne fiigl1 streef, and experienced a strange elation like sparkling mineral water rinsing through her veins. 5 2 Gina turned slowly on her heel, assessing the available space, and stopped at the long wall next to the window. It demanded one really fabulous piece of art, something beautiful that she could sit, gaze at and get lost in. She did not have the right painting or print yet, but she had formed a middle-of-the-night-plan to get rid of everything she did not need from the old house, and buy one \ thing she really wanted for herself. 10 r' 3 She had not expected to feel quite so positive about the first day of her new life, single, in a new place. The last few weeks had been hard, and Gina's bones ached with invisible bruises, but now underneath there was a first-day-of-school excitement. Fresh paint, empty rooms, smooth walls, ready to be filled, like a brand-new notebook. Some of it was adrenaline at having sold the house and rented this new flat in just a fortnight. Some of it was relief to be away from the atmosphere 15 that had hung over Dryden Road after Stuart's bombshell, which, like an actual bombshell, had left a soft of miserable crater where Christmas was supposed to have been.