SS Prelim 2021 - CHIJ ST Theresas Convent

1 _________________________________________________________________ HUMANITIES 2272/2273/2274 Paper 1 Social Studies 24 August 2021 1 hour 45 minutes Additional Materials: Writing Paper _________________________________________________________________ This document consists of 7 printed pages. CHIJ ST. THERESA’S CONVENT PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS / 5 NORMAL (ACADEMIC) wendytb96

2 Section A (Source-Based Case Study) Answer all questions. Exploring Citizenship and Governance Study the Background Information and the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources which you are told to use. In answering the questions you should use your knowledge of the issue to help you interpret and evaluate the sources. 1. Study Source A. Does the cartoonist support Brexit? Explain your answer. [5] 2. Study Sources B and C. How far would the writer in Source B agree with the response from the European Union (EU) in Source C? Explain your answer. [6] 3. Study Source D. How useful is Source D in convincing the people of Britain to support Brexit? Explain your answer. [7] 4. Study Sources E and F. Having read Source E, are you surprised by Source F? Explain your answer. [7] 5. ‘Brexit has brought about negative impacts to the UK.’ Using the sources in th is case study, explain how far you would support this statement. [10] wendytb96

3 Was the response to Brexit positive? BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. In 1993, almost every Western European country joined the European Union (EU) to merge their economic rules in 1993. They did this by allowing people, goods, services, and capital to move freely between member countries. On 23 June 2016, the Britons decided in a referendum to leave the EU. In the United Kingdom (UK), t he vote was 17.4 million in favour of leaving versus 15.1 million who voted to remain. After 45 years in the EU, the UK left the European Union in January 2020. Both the UK and the EU agreed to give each other more time (until 31 December 2020) to agree on the post-Brexit terms that would define how the parties would live, work, and trade together in the future. Study the following sources to consider whether Brexit was a wrong decision made by the United Kingdom. Source A: A cartoon published in the United Arab Emirates’ English-language newspaper, April 2016. wendytb96

4 Source B: An online news article taken from Euronews, May 2021. Thousands of Europeans who used to work here have moved on. “Quite a lot of people left mainly because of Brexit, and they didn't feel like