2024 ANDSS PRELIM SEC 4E5N EL Paper 2 (Insert)

This document consists of 6 printed pages.Setter: Ms Petrina Wong and Ms Yeow Swee Li [Turn over OANDERSON SECONDARY SCHOOLPreliminary Examination 2024Secondary Four Express & Five Normal CANDIDATE NAME: CLASS:/ INDEX NUMBER:ENGLISH LANGUAGEPaper 2 Comprehension 1184/0221 August 20241 hour 50 minutes1100 – 1250hINSERTREAD THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRSTThis insert contains Text 1, Text 2, Text 3 and Text 4. Section A

2 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) Study the poster (Text 1) and the excerpt from a blog post (Text 2) and answer Questions 1 – 4 in the Question Paper.Text 1 is taken from a poster about the importance of education. Source: Bank of the Planet: Water, garbage, forest, energy, education. Ads of the World. https://www.adsoftheworld.com/campaigns/water-84fe335f-c291-45cf-8d27-11380cbf94c9Text 2 is taken from a blog post about climate education.There were also assignments to help us apply the skills we acquired, such as using the latest word processor to type an essay about our summer vacation plans or creating a visually appealing and informative slide show of our favourite animal in PowerPoint. Looking back at the 12-year-old me choosing between different font styles to type “wolf” or learning how to correctly resize an image of said wolf I found on ClipArt, I realise how those skills are part of a decades-long mission to teach computer literacy in schools.The computer literacy classes I took as a child gave me the skills needed to succeed in today’s workplace. In a similar vein, just as we adapted our educational approaches to cater to the demands of the digital age, we must now employ the same innovative thinking to foster in our students an empathy for the green economy.Source: Nolasco, D. (2024, January 24). Can climate education save our planet? Earth Day. https://www.earthday.org/can-climate-education-save-our-planet/Section B Bank of the Planet.Investments generatinginformation and actions.

3 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) [Turn over Text 3In the text below, the writer recounts memories of how she discovered her artistic talent.Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5 – 15 in the Question Paper.1Not long after the installation of the television, I was found to have developed a squint. Whether it was the cause of the problem, or an innocent diagnostic tool, remained a matter of fierce debate. The undisputed fact was that Mum had found me watching The New Avengers with my hand over one eye. My untroubled explanation that I would otherwise be seeing two images led us directly to the opticians for tests. Expert opinion concluded that I was suffering from nothing more than ‘a lazy eye' and recommended a patch for the unaffected eye. There is never a good time to wear an eyepatch, but it was especially unfortunate that this episode coincided with my first term at secondary school, when inconspicuousness would have served me better.52Mum’s attempts at home tuition to prime me for prestigious schools or scholarships had not worked in her favour. Talk of integers and denominators and percentages caused a hot metal bolt of incomprehension to tighten up behind my eyes.‘She’s artistic,’ was Dad’s verdict.‘She’s a dreamer,’ said Mum.‘She lacks concentration,’ said my school report.It was certainly true that I wasn’t destined for exam success. I couldn’t seem to get the answers out of my head, where they teemed like shoals of slippery fish, and onto the page. I would think for too long about each question, my thoughts frequently taking off down byways of their own, which though interesting were not in the least pertinent. When some distraction would cause me to look down, half the time would have elapsed and I would have produced nothing but a page of doodles. 1015203Losing my television rights made me particularly insufferable. When Dad had had enough, he unearthed a wooden box containing some crumpled tubes of oil paint and balding brushes. Some of the paints were fossilised beyond redemption, but we managed to squeeze out a few threads of chrome yellow, white and ochre, and I produced what I considered a passable still life, entitled Milk Jug, Egg and Banana. I took it to school to show my art teacher, Mr Hatch, and he was very complimentary, and even gave me some hints on composition, suggesting, for example, that next time I didn’t need to arrange the objects in a straight line, and could possibly put them on something, rather than have them floating in space. Dad wanted to frame it, but once Mr Hatch had hinted at its flaws, I didn’t feel it deserved to be displayed. I kept it anyway, as it represented a milestone: the beginning of a stormy relationship with oils.25304In addition to his other advice, Mr Hatch had recommended I carry a small sketch pad and pencil with me when I was out and about, and get into the habit of ‘Sketching from Life’. In reverence, I ventured to the train station and found myself a seat at the end of the platform which commanded a view of arriving trains, and began, rather self-consciously, to draw. My eyepatch seemed to be something of an asset in this endeavour, removing the troubling three-dimensional element from the matter of composition. Viewed through one eye the world already looked as flat as a picture. However, I was unprepared for the annoying reluctance of Life to keep still while I was drawing it, and several of my sketches had to be abandoned incomplete as the subjects wandered off to catch a train. After a while I began to appreciate the importance of speed in capturing the unposed human form, and to yearn for the relative compliance of my milk jug, egg and banana.35405Half an hour passed. My pencil was blunt, my bottom numb, and I had produced a 45

4 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) dozen unfinished scribbles of my surroundings, and one detailed drawing of my own shoe.6The day my eyepatch came off, the world rose up to meet me. Houses and trees sprang to attention like the pages of a pop-up book; the sharpness and solidity of things amazed me and I started to draw again, inspired by this new insight. ‘It’s the artist’s gift to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.’ Mr Hatch said, and I saw at last what he meant. He had been prompted to this remark by the sketch of my shoe. It looked, he said, like something organic – a species of cabbage, perhaps – and he put it up, properly mounted, on the wall outside the head’s office, where all the best pictures went.50Adapted from “In a Good Light” By Clare Chambers. Section C

5 Preliminary Examination 4E5N EL P2 2024 (1184/02) [Turn over Text 4In the article below, a writer explains the challenges faced by the food delivery industry today.Read it carefully and answer Questions 16 – 20 in the Question Paper.1Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have witnessed an unprecedented demand for food deliveries from supermarkets, restaurants and even fast food joints. Online ordering from the palm of our hand or desktop is now commonplace, with the top reason being convenience. Even as the focus now is on the convenience of ordering, we see major issues confronting the food delivery industry. What will the future hold for these services?52Online restaurant ordering now accounts for about 40% of total restaurant sales, just over $22.4 billion in 2021. Experts forecast that the food delivery market size will expand to $320 billion by 2029. No one in the grocery or food service disputes the rise and importance of online shopp