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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. Even though he had moved out immediately, his presence had lingered in every stray sock and framed holiday photo, of which there were many. Almost overnight, Gina felt as if she had woken up in the house of a happily married couple of strangers. 20 4 This flat would help her start again, she told herself. For the next hour or so, Gina sat in the delicatessen next to her flat and drank two coffees, watching the late-afternoon bustle of the high street. She tried to keep a vision in her head of her sunny, open flat and all its possibilities; what she was going to do with it; whether she should paint one wall a bright sunshine yellow to pin this positivity for days when she was not quite so energised. 25 5 She did not realise her dream was soon to be brutally smashed. When she returned, she found the flat completely crammed with cardboard boxes, from floor to ceiling. Gina was stunned by the unexpected invasion. It felt crushing, claustrophobic. The movers had left a narrow corridor through the spare room so she could get inside. The sitting room was now two-thirds filled, the white walls lost behind brown ones. She had to turn sideways to get into the kitchen. Her 30 possessions loomed over her every way she looked. Gina's previous vision of sitting in the empty flat languidly considering one item at a time from a single box evaporated. 6 'Everything from the old house', she muttered to herself. 7 Before her shock could tip over into tears, she started pushing the boxes away from the big white wall, where her special painting was to go. She needed to be able to see that wall, even if every 35 other one was blocked. 8 Her stomach rippled with nerves at the unknown months ahead. The nerves tended to ambush her, creeping up when she was not concentrating to dive-bomb her good mood like seagulls. Gina knew it was going to be tough, unravelling her life from Stuart's. There was not room for much, so she had to be selective. From now on, everything that came into this flat had to make 40 her happy, or be useful, or ideally, both. Adapted from "A Hundred Pieces of Me" by Lucy Dillon [Turn over 3

I Section C Text3 The text below describes a . . . Questions 14 to 19 in the Q n~er m Anzona which is under threat. Read it carefully and answer uest,on Booklet. 1 2 3 4 6 Record heat in Pho en ·x dd history Le th I a s p~essure on the Salt River, a humble waterway with an ancient . k ss an an hour outside of America's fifth-largest city is a watery playground in a ;~gionrt~own for a lack ~f water. Fed by high-altitude springs and streams a hundred miles to b ef no . ~~st, the Salt River flows down from the mountains and through Phoenix, Arizona, e ore it Joins the Gila River. Most visitors to Phoenix aren't aware of the Salt River's wealth of outdoor adventures from kayaking and tubing down the 12 miles of the Lower Salt to fishing for rainbow trout a~d redbreast s~nfish to picnicking with family at Pebble Beach Recreation Area. Yet even savvy, heat-escaping locals don't know of another secret: how the humble Salt River helped create m?dern Phoenix. Starting around 600 A.O., the ancestors used stone tools to dig hundreds of miles of sophisticated irrigation canals in what is now known as the Salt River Valley. By creating the largest and most complex irrigation system in ancient North America, they transformed the valley agriculturally, making it easier to create a settled community. Yet their legacy, and even their descendants' ongoing presence, is just now beginning to be accurately understood. "People really don't understand that they're standing on the shoulders of giants," says Angela Garcia-Lewis, cultural compliance officer with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. "The irrigation that we use today, the majority of the contemporary canals have been in existence for thousands of years." Beyond being a source of Phoenix's water, electricity, and recreation, the managed river is also a conservation corridor, particularly for endangered birds and reptiles like the western yellow-billed cuckoo and the Chiricahua leopard frog. By 1450 A.O., the culture that archaeologists call Hohokam had created the largest expanse of irrigated land north of Peru along Arizona's Salt and Gila rivers. Their network supplied water for an estimated 110,000 acres at its peak. Some investigated canals are 15 feet deep 5 10 15 20 and up to 45 feet wide. Many are still in use by the valley's cities. Recent archaeological finds in 25 Tempe and Mesa, along with holistic, conservation-based exploration, are increasing the local public's awareness of the engineering feat that connects past to present. Irrigation means sustainable agriculture and industry, which leads to permanent settlements. Communities need dependable water to stay put, and the Salt River gives that to Phoenix. The Salt has yet another surprise awaiting upriver: a forest. In a desert. Not just any desert 30 forest, b