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Name of Candidate: _____________________ ( ) Class: ______ This Insert consists of 6 printed pages. BUKIT PANJANG GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS SECONDARY 4 NORMAL ACADEMIC SECONDARY 5 NORMAL ACADEMIC ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 2 Comprehension 1128 / 02 Date: 19 August, 2021 Duration: 1h 50 min Time : 1020h – 1210 h READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This Insert contains Text 1, Text 2 and Text 3. Setters: Christine Png, Ng Ee Ling [Turn over]

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3 Section B Text 2 Read the text below carefully and answer Questions 6 to 16 in the Question Booklet. In the text below, the writer describes an incident that happened during their first spring in Corfu, Greece when he was 11. The family, consisting of his mother, two older brothers (aged 21 and 23) and an elder sister (18), had moved to Corfu six months earlier. Spiro is a local whom they befriended shortly after they arrived on Corfu. 1 2 3 4 5 6 With March came the spring. The valley was flooded with wildflowers: the pink of pyramid orchids, yellow of crocus, blue spikes of asphodels, and deep rich red of anemones. The flowers chuckled among themselves as they sent their whispers in the gentle breeze. The olive groves were alive and rustling with newly arrived birds: the hoopoes probed their long curved beaks at the soft earth; the goldfinches, chirping and twittering, danced merrily from twig to twig. In the water -filled ditches, the frogs that looked newly enameled snored a rapturous chorus in the lush weeds. For Margo, her personal appearance, always of absorbing interest to her, now became almost an obsession. Singing shrilly and untunefully, she would drift about the house carrying piles of clothes or bottles of scent. She would dive into the bathroom and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a barnacle from a rock. The family in turn would bellow and batter on the door, getting no more satisfaction than an assurance that she was nearly finished, an assurance that we had learnt by bitter experience not to have any faith in. Eventually, she would emerge humming, glowing and immaculate, and amble down to the olive -groves to sunbathe or go down to the sea and swim. It was during one of these excursions to the sea that she met a good-looking young man. With unusual modesty, she did not inform anyone of her frequent meetings with this young man, feeling, as she told us later, that we would not be interested. It was, of course, Spiro, who di scovered it. He watched over Margo’s welfare with the earnest concern of a guard dog and there was precious little Margo could do without Spiro knowing about it. He cornered Mother in the kitchen one morning, glanced surreptitiously round to make sure they were not overheard, sighed deeply and broke the news to her. ‘I’m very sorry to tell you this, Mrs. Durrell, but I think you ought to know.’ Mother by now had grown accustomed to Spiro’s conspiratorial air when he came to deliver some item of information about the family, and it no longer worried her. ‘What’s the matter, Spiro?’ she asked. ‘It’s Missy Margo,’ said Spiro sorrowfully. ‘What about her?’ ‘Did you know she is seeing a man?’ he inquired in a slightly alarmed whisper. ‘A man? Oh… er…yes, I did know,’ said Mother, lying valiantly. ‘Golly! Mrs. Durrell! Missy Margo is still young! She should not be alone with a man, Mrs. Durrell! It’s not safe at all!’ ‘All right, Spiro,’ said Mother soothingly, ‘I shall speak to Margo about it.’ Acting on the information received, Mother mentioned the matter to Margo and suggested that the man be invited to tea. Delighted, Margo went off to inform him. Mother warned the rest of us to be on our best behaviour when Margo’s male friend came to visit. The male friend, when he arrived, turned out to be a tall young man, with meticulously waved hair, and a flashy smile that managed to convey the minimum of humour with the maximum of condescension. He picked up Mother’s hand and pressed her hand to his lips, then surveyed the rest 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 of us, nodding slowly and deliberately. Mother, feeling the hackles of the family rising, threw herself desperately into the breach. ‘Lovely to meet you…please have a seat … please have a scone… there’s cake too,’ Mother said, as she handed him a piece of cake. ‘So kind,’ murmured the male friend, leaving us in some doubt as to whether he was referring to himself or us. There was a pause. ‘He’s on holiday here,’ Margo announced suddenly. ‘Really?’ said Larry sharply. ‘On holiday? Amazing!’ ‘I had a holiday once,’ said Leslie, as he chewed his scone. Mother glared at Leslie and Larry but both of them failed to notice. ‘Sugar?’ she asked, ‘Sugar in your tea?’ ‘Yes, thank you,’ replied the man. There was another short silence. We all sat and watched Mother pouring out tea and se arching her mind desperately for a topic of conversation. At length the male friend turned to Larry. ‘You write, I believe? Margo tells me you are a writer,’ he said with a complete lack of interest. Larry’s eyes glittered. Mother, seeing the danger signs rushed in quickly before he could reply. ‘Oh yes, he’s always typing at his typewriter.’ ‘I always feel that I could write superbly if I tried,’ remarked