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Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) FINAL EXAMINATION 2023 YEAR 2 (EXPRESS) ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1184/02 PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION INSERT Monday 2 October 2023 1 hour 50 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains Text 1, Text 2, Text 3 and Text 4. This document consists of 6 printed pages, including the cover page. [Turn over

2 Section A Study the online advertisement (Text 1) and the blog excerpt (Text 2) and answer Questions 1-4. Text 1 is taken from a campaign about child abuse by Child Protection Services. activities. Text 2 is taken from a blog managed by The National Children’s Alliance. In the year 2013 alone, an average of 679,000 children were physically, sexually, emotionally, abused or neglected. While it is widely believed that the signs of child abuse are as obvious as a bump or bruise, many symptoms go unnoticed. The National Children’s Alliance has helped over 315,000 child victims of abuse in the year 2014 and is dedicated to advocating for education about the signs of child abuse. Join our fight to protect our children today. Our courses are free for all. Child abuse can cause negative emotions such as low self-esteem and depression and can manifest in subtle ways including changes in appetite, insomnia, and loss of interest in childhood activities. Child Abuse Changes Everything: Even Appetite

3 Section B Text 3 The text below is about an otter that killed the dog entrusted to Andy. Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5-12 in the Question Booklet. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The otter was moving before the dog left the bank, swimming with desperate speed. It leaped for the falling pup, and, rising beneath it, fastened upon its throat. The dog reared to free its throat, but the otter overbalanced it, fighting with deadly coolness to get into deeper water. He was all about it, attacking with disconcerting swiftness, always manoeuvring it a little farther out. The boy on the bank realised this; he grabbed a branch to use as a club, and jumping from the bank, began to splash toward them. The otter saw the boy coming and pulled the dog into deeper water. The dog tried wildly to free itself, but the otter fastened implacably on its haunches, pulled it down and entangled it in a pile of weeds at the bottom. The dog fought desperately in a world alien to it, but in which the otter was at home. But it was trapped; the air in its lungs fled in silver bubbles to the surface. Standing up to his chest in the water, Andy Gates stared in anguish at the spot where the dog had gone down. He saw the bubbles burst to the surface, and