Anderson Prelim 2023

This document consists of 6 printed pages. Setter: Ms Trixie Ong and Mr Kelvin Lim [Turn over O ANDERSON SECONDARY SCHOOL Preliminary Examination 2023 Secondary Four Express CANDIDATE NAME: CLASS: / INDEX NUMBER: ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Comprehension 1184/02 21 August 2023 1 hour 50 minutes 0800 – 0950h INSERT READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This insert contains Text 1, Text 2, Text 3 and Text 4.

Preliminary Examination 4E EL P2 2023 (1184/02) [Turn over 2 Section A Study the online campaign (Text 1) and the social media post (Text 2) and answer Questions 1 - 4 in the Question Paper. Text 1 is taken from an online campaign about food waste. World Food Day 16 October 2023. Join these inglorious foods for a glorious fight against food waste. Text 2 is taken from a social media post about food waste. Discrimination does not only have to do with humans. Discrimination against ugly vegetables, treating them like trash, only because of their looks, not their nutritional worth, leads to an enormous am ount of food waste, which could feed a lot of hungry people amongst us . Let’s reverse the fate of ugly food from waste to delicious, perfectly edible and nutritious food!

Preliminary Examination 4E EL P2 2023 (1184/02) [Turn over 3 Section B Text 3 The text below is the account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s struggle to survive with a crew of five men aboard the James Caird, as he travelled through the Drake Passage to seek help for his men stranded on Elephant Island. Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5 -14 in the Question Paper. 1 The little group of dark figures waving goodbye were silhouetted against the white snow, and they made a pathetic picture from the Caird as she lifted to the increasing swell. Worsley held her on a northerly course and Shackleton stood beside him, alternately peering ahead at the approaching ice, and turning again to look at the men he was leaving behind. Both groups knew they might never see one another again. 5 2 A forbidding-looking place, Elephant Island was the refuge of twenty -two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm -washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong – and return with help. It was a stagg