Cambridge International AS Level

ENGLISH GENERAL PAPER 8021/22

Paper 2 Comprehension October/November 2020

You must answer on the question paper.

You will need: Insert (enclosed)

INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions.
• Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
• Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the boxes at the top of the page.
• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
• Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
• Do not write on any bar codes.
• Dictionaries are not allowed.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
• The insert contains all the resources referred to in the questions.

This document has 8 pages. Blank pages are indicated.

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Section A

Read the material for Section A in the insert before answering the questions in Section A.

1 (a) Considering four advantages, explain why Juno might choose to participate in Dancing Heaven.

You should not refer to Help Me – I Can’t Take Any More!

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(b) Considering only the advantages, explain why Juno might choose to participate in Help Me –
I Can’t Take Any More!

Answer in about 80 words using continuous prose.

You should not refer to Dancing Heaven.

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(c) In about 20 words for each, explain why Juno should not trust everything that is said to her by

(i) Laya

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(ii) Ingrid

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(iii) her husband

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(d) In your opinion, should agents take 20 per cent of the income of the writers, painters, musicians
or actors they represent?

Justify your response.

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Section B

Read the material for Section B in the insert before answering the questions in Section B.

2 (a) Explain why the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not really ‘an island of plastic’.

Answer using your own words as far as possible.

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(b) Describe the way Charles Moore came across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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(c) Outline two features of a gyre.

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(d) Identify the implication for other oceans of the existence of a gyre in the Pacific.

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(e) With regard to Charles Moore and Dr. White’s team,

(i) state the similar technique they both used.

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(ii) identify the differences in their findings and subsequent statements.

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(f) According to paragraph 6, explain:

(i) two ways in which plastics can harm marine animals.

Answer in your own words.

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(ii) why humans are now consuming fish and fowl containing many poisonous substances.

Answer in about 60 words.

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(g) Describe how consumers can help solve the problem of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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(h) (i) State the meaning of the following two words or phrases as they are used in the material.
You may write your answers in one word or a short phrase.

‘flimsy’ (line 6)

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‘to debunk’ (line 33)

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(ii) Use these words or phrases in two separate sentences to illustrate their meanings as
used in the material. Your sentences should not deal with the subject matter of the
material.

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