2023 DHS EL Prelims P2 Insert

DUNMAN SECONDARY SCHOOL CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2023 SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1184/02 Paper 2 Comprehension 21 August 2023 INSERT 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.

2 1184/02/EYE/4EXP/2023 Section A Study the online advertisement (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 advertisement about bullying. \ Text 2 is taken from a social media post on how modern technology has made us bystanders. Our phones make us feel like social -media activists but they are actually turning us to bystanders. We post about our outrage at unjust things that happen but there is a huge dissonance between what we publicly declare as our values -online or otherwise- and how we act. Our act of recording a violent event but staying silent and doing nothing to stop the situation from worsening, is a modern manifestation of the bystander effect. We must rem ember that recording an event is not a replacement for action! Let’s be an upstander, not a bystander. You don’t have to get physical to stop bullying. Finding the courage to say ‘That’s not right!’ is the best thing you can do. A bully uses words to hurt. You can use yours to be a hero! Just speak up .

3 1184/02/EYE/4EXP/2023 Section B Text 3 The text below is an account of the writer and his fire-fighting colleagues who were faced with a collapsing building while they were putting out a fire in a warehouse in London. Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5–14 in the Question Paper. 1 I remember it was our third job that night and it was 3 a.m . And there we were - Len, Lofty, Verno and myself, shooting a fifty-foot jet up the face of a tall city warehouse , flames raging as high as it, and thinking nothing at all. You don’t think of anything after the first few hours. You just watch the white pole of water lose itself in the fire and numbed by pr olonged monotony, you think of nothing. Sometimes you move the jet over to another window. Sometimes the orange dims to black, but you only ease your grip on the ice-cold nozzle and continue pouring water carelessly through the window. You know the fire will fester for hours yet. 5 2 However, that night the blank, indefinite hours of waiting were sharply interrupted by an unusual sound. A long rattling crack of bursting brick and mortar perforated the moment echoing through the air like a thunderou