2020 ANDSS PRELIM 4E5N Paper 2 (Insert)

This document consists of 6 printed pages. Setter: Miss Karen Kang [Turn over O ANDERSON SECONDARY SCHOOL Preliminary Examination 2022 Secondary Four Express & Five Normal CANDIDATE NAME: CLASS: / INDEX NUMBER: ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Comprehension 1128/02 19 August 2022 1 hour 50 minutes 0800 – 0950h INSERT READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This insert contains Text 1, Text 2 and Text 3.

Preliminary Examination 4E/5N EL P2 2022 (1128/02) 2 Section A Text 1 Study the webpage below and answer Questions 1 – 4 in the Question Booklet.

Preliminary Examination 4E/5N EL P2 2022 (1128/02) [Turn over 3 Section B Text 2 In the text below, the narrator writes about her sister-in-law’s baby shower (a party to celebrate the impending birth of a baby where presents are brought for the mother). Read the text carefully and answer Questions 5 – 17 in the Question Booklet. 1 A gaggle of women, all speaking over each other in loud, animated voices, filled my parents’ small living room. It was like watching a National Geographic special about social dominance, where pitch and decibel level determined the leader. They wandered around the room, grazing on homemade samosas and pakoras, careful not to get oily crumbs on the delicate fabric of their brightly coloured saris. 5 2 I was sitting at the dining table near the front door so I could fulfil my assigned duty of greeting the guests as they arrived for my sister -in-law’s baby shower. From across the room, I heard snippets of conversation from my mother’s friends. ‘Did you hear her son dropped out of medical school to be with that American girl?’ ‘I’m not surprised. I heard she walks like an elephant.’ Without knowing whom they were talking about, I sympathised with the girl. My mother had often accused me of this great atrocity – walking like an elephant. I was around nine years old when I realised she was not calling me fat. She meant I was not demure and obedient – qualities every good Indian daughter should have. 10 15 3 Across the room, my mother, dressed in an orange and gold sari, offered to bring my sister-in-law, Dipti, a plate of food. She had been fawning over Dipti all day, telling her she needed to rest to keep the baby healthy. ‘You are a mother now, beta,’ she would say, shooting me a look of disappointment every time she referred to Dipti being a mother. I winced inwardly at hearing the term of affection she used to call me as a child. It had been a long time since I had been bet