VJC 2018 Prelims GP (P2 Answers)

1 VJC 2018 Prelim GP Paper 2 Answers From Passage 1 1. In lines 5-6, what parallel does the author draw between the movie ‘A Quiet Place’ and certain fairy tales and fables? Use your own words as far as possible. [2] From the Text Possible paraphrase Like fairy tales and fables that dramatise cultural phobias or anxieties... Both blow up/ exaggerate [1] fears/ worries/ insecurities. [1] Note: ‘Show’, ‘portray’, ‘depict’ were not accepted as these words are too neutral. Students who mentioned that these worries were put into a ‘plot’, ‘narrative’ or ‘story’ were given the mark for the first point. 2. Using your own words as far as possible, explain why the author claims that the problem of noise ‘got exponentially worse’ (line 10). [2] From the Text Possible paraphrase and inference During the Industrial Revolution, people swarmed to cities… … roaring with factory furnaces and shrieking with train whistles The large influx of people into densely-packed cities/ people flocked to cities in droves. [1] Cities house transportation networks and industries which produce a lot of noise. [1] Note: Students who wrote that people ‘migrate’ or ‘move to cities’ were not given the mark as the quantity of people is important in this context. In the second part of the answer, students were not expected to paraphrase ‘factory’ and ‘train’. However, they should make some reference to these noise sources in their answer. 3. From lines 11-13, explain how and why people in the past thought noise affected ‘thinkers’ and ‘stupid people’ differently. Use your own words as far as possible. [2] From the Text Possible paraphrase and inference The cacophony was seen as a torture for intellectual people… …and thinkers argued that they needed quietness to do good work. Noise was unbearable to the ‘thinkers’ but did not bother ‘stupid people’ [1] because ‘thinkers’ needed silence to be able to concentrate and work effectively whereas ‘stupid people’ did not need this since they do not use their brains. [1] Note: Students need to capture the pair of ideas under the sections on ‘how’ and ‘why’ to get 1 mark. In the first

2 part of the answer, ‘negative effects’, ‘punished’ and ‘affected’ were not accepted as paraphrases for ‘torture’. Those who mentioned that stupid people did manual work in noisy industries were also not credited because they were reading too much into the author’s point. 4. Explain the author’s use of the word ‘cocoons’ in line 44. Use your own words as far as possible. [2] From the Text Possible inference Content as some may feel in their ready-made acoustic cocoons, the more people accustom themselves to life without unwanted sounds from others… Just like how a caterpillar uses a cocoon to protect itself while it morphs into a butterfly [1], these products help to protect/ shield us from /block out noise from our surroundings [1]. Note: ‘Isolated’ and ‘