2024 JPJC JC2 GP Prelim P2 Insert

Name: _________________________________ Class: _____________ JURONG PIONEER JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 Preliminary Examination 2024 GENERAL PAPER 8881/02 Higher 1 9 September 2024 Paper 2 1 hour 30 minutes INSERT READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name and class in the spaces provided above. This Insert contains the passages for Paper 2. This document consists of 4 printed pages.

2 Passage 1. An author reflects on lessons balancing development and sustainability. 1 We need quality buildings to safely house our schools, hospitals, offices, and our homes. We also live in a world with limited resources for constructing and operating new buildings, which means we need buildings that are sustainable and resilient in addition to being safe and functional. Most cities facing this challenge are full of underutilised historic buildings and sites with cultural, social, economic, and technological value. These historic places are precisely the solution required in growing cities, and they have surprising economic and environmental benefits. 5 2 From “mega tall” skyscrapers to slums, to the infrastructure that connects them, cities can be catalysts for economic opportunity, industry, and innovative constructions. Historic buildings are a tangible recording of a city’s story and can teach us about our history and culture. Importantly, it also teaches us about sustainability. As catalysing drivers of development, cities seem to be in direct opposition with historic structures. The momentum of development and emerging green technologies drive cities to build for the future. At first glance, run-down historic buildings without some modern features (like adequate steel reinforcement or airtight window frames) seem to stand in the way of city and human development, whereas it is much easier to opt for cheaper, faster, and larger buildings than investing in an existing building. Yet, we cannot deny that historic buildings are fascinating because they function as both sociocultural bulwarks and priceless technological repositories. Many of the world’s historic sites are buildings that can teach us important lessons about sustainability and building construction. 10 15 20 3 The UN’s 11th Sustainable Development Goal reads: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, through strengthening efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage. This is seen in the large body of work establishing connections between heritage sites and humanity’s collective memory, or shared identity. Collective memory is an inclusive phenomenon. Historical sites are physical witnesses to shared heritage in the history and places that bind us together as humans. Our own stories can be shared and understood through physical places and sp