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© DHS EL Dept/English Language/Year 4 O-level/Preliminary Examination 2020 Name: Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2020 Year 4 O-Level Programme ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 2 Comprehension INSERT Additional Material: Question Booklet 24 August 2020 1 hour 50 minutes This Insert contains Text 1, Text 2 and Text 3. This document consists of 6 printed pages. [Turn over

2 Section A Text 1 Study the poster below and answer Questions 1 – 4 in the Question Booklet.

3 © DHS EL Dept/English Language/Year 4 O-level/Preliminary Examination 2020 Section B Text 2 The text below describes a hunting expedition in Kalahari Desert. Read it carefully and answer Questions 5 – 16 in the Question Booklet. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Elephants kept appearing in wrinkled herds, loitering near the dusty pans, in search of water. As the hot air of serenity blanketed the area, the pachyderms were moving at the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia in a community-run wildlife reserve called Nyae Nyae, where roughly 2,800 San people live today in unyielding conditions. I waited patiently with the hunting party . We endured the heat inside the sweltering Land Cruiser. This is no place for any living thing. Dan, a tracker from the local San people stood behind the vehicle while Felix, the professional hunter and guide on this expedition and his client, Bob sat in the vehicle, admiring the guns they had brought along, a 12-pound, bespoke .470 Nitro Express double rifle. These guns, costing up to $200,000, are favoured for big- game trophy hunting because of their stopping power, and this is what Bob was here for—a trophy. With the September temperature pushing a hundred degrees at midday , the elephants left snapped branches and warm scat in their wake. When they caught our scent, our sweat mixing with the sun-scorched grasses, they broke into a trumpeting jog and were gone. Later, more materialised on the horizon, in the shade of the cam el thorn trees, shades themselves. These enormous creatures were nearly invisible but not to the sharpest eyes. “Oliphant!” Dan cried, leaning hard over the right side of the Land Cruiser, picking out tracks in the sand. He tapped on the door, and we ca me to a whiplashing halt. Dan jumped down, checking a footprint, its edges corrugated and etched inside with smaller bubbles. He motioned, and Felix popped out of the driver’s side door. Strapping, ruddy, and blond, in his 40s, he seemed straight from central casting, wearing a cloth hat and shorts. He stood over the impression for a moment, a quizzical expression on his face , and nodded his head in agreement that not only is Nyae Nyae’s desert scrub home to San families, but also home to some of the last, biggest