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1184/2/GE/23 O JURONG SECONDARY SCHOOL2023 GRADUATION EXAMINATIONSECONDARY 4 EXPRESS CANDIDATE NAMECLASS INDEX NUMBERENGLISH LANGUAGE 1184/02PAPER 2 COMPREHENSIONINSERT 15 August 2023 1 hour 50 minutesREAD THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRSTThis Insert contains Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, and Text 4. This document consists of 6 printed pages including this page.

2 1184/2/GE/23 [Turn overSection AStudy the online advertisement (Text 1) and the social media post (Text 2) and answer Questions 1 – 4 in the Question Booklet.Text 1 is taken from an online advertisement for CARE’s campaign to fight against poverty. Text 2 is taken from a social media post on World Women’s Day.“Investing in girls is smart. It is central to boosting development, breaking the cycle ofintergenerational poverty, and allowing girls, and then women—50 percent of theworld’s population—to lead better, fairer, and more productive lives. With complexissues like deep poverty, you can’t tackle everything at once. So as volunteers, weshould look for influential and significant points, where a small effort can have a big impact and start to shift the system now. Helping girls gain confidence in themselves and pursue their dreams is significant in reshaping the world of tomorrow.’ Find out how CARE is working with girls to fight poverty, and what you can do to help. Make a difference today.

3 1184/2/GE/23 Section BText 3The text below describes the attempt of a young Boy Scout to prove himself and move up the ranks. Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5 – 12 in the Question Booklet.1Back in 1946, when I was nine, I was worried that I wasn’t tough enough. That was why I became a Boy Scout. Scouting, I thought, would make a man of me. It didn’t take long to reach Tenderfoot rank. You got that for joining. To move up to Second Class, however, you had to meet three requirements. Scout Spirit and Scout Participation had been a piece of cake. The third requirement, Scout Craft, meant I had to go on an overnight hike in the countryside, a thought I grappled with for a long while. 52Since I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940’s, the only grass I knew was in Ebbets Field where the Dodgers1 played. Otherwise, my world was made of meticulously laid slate pavements, endless maze of asphalt roads, and skies of towering buildings. Discovering a new building or road was practically a daily affair as I whizzed past on my prized two-wheeler. The only thing “country” was a puny Pin Oak tree at our curb, which was noticed, mostly, by dogs.103I asked the esteemed and knowledgeable Scoutmaster Brenkman where I could find some country. Now, whenever I saw Mr. Brenkman, who was a church pastor, he was dressed either in church black or Scout khaki. When he wore black, he would warn us against hellfire. When he wore khaki, he would teach us how to build fires. He was two sides of the same coin but one of which I much prefer, and that day I was in luck. 154“Country,” Scoutmaster Brenkman said passionately i