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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPERS IIAND III

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PAPER II
SECTION A

CONTINUOUS WRITING
[50 MARKS]

You are required to answer only one question from this section. Your answer should not be less
than 450 words. All questions carry equal marks. You are advised to spend about 45 minutes on
this section.

.1 Write a story to illustrate the saying: Prevention is better than cure.

2. Write an article suitable for publication in your school magazine on ways of improving
reading culture among students.

3. You are a chief speaker in a debate on the topic: Our Forefathers Upheld our Cultural

Values more than this Generation. Write your argument for or against the motion.
4. Your best friend has just been suspended from school for iraancy. Write a letter to

him/her expressing your displeasure and advising him/her to turn a new leaf.
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SECTION B

COMPREHENSION

[20 MARKS]

You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on this section.

5. Readthe passage below carefully and answer the questions on it.

"Water Meandering"! The mention of this topic usually takes me retrospectively to my
secondary school days. It also reminds me of our geography class. We were a set of
three streams: A, B and C, and Isee myself in our class with my classmates well seated.
The subject we never liked was geography. This was quite surprising to our Guidance
Counsellor who worked hard to ensure that most of us offered geography up to the
School Certificate Level. Not only our Guidance Counsellor, our school Principal was
also surprised at our attitude towards geography. He had always encouraged us to choose
geography as one of our subjects for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).
He once boasted: "In the near future, Ishall travel by air with one of you seated as my
pilot." We had received this encouragement with thunderous ovation, but our old
geography teacher became the spoiler.

Our old geography teacher killed inus the zeal of becoming future pilots, or, would Isay,
he destroyed our urge of becominguseful citizens of our fatherland.

When this teacher left and Mr. Udenkwo was posted to our school to handle geography, we
realized that "Water Meandering" was not the only topic in geography. In fact, we
discovered that "Water Meandering" was not even a topic on its own. But before this time,
the only topic we knew in geography but which we could not really explain, was "Water
Meandering."

Also, with the coming of Mr. Udenkwo, as young boys and girls, we began to ask
questions about the competence of our old geography teacher. From these questions, we
realized that our old geography teacher was not a subject specialist after all. We realized
too that this teacher only had the Teachers' Grade II Certificate. Whether he studied
geography at the Teachers' Training College (TTC) or not, was another thing we could
not uncover. On the other hand, we discovered that Mr. Udenkwo had a bachelor's
degree in geography.

But before Mr. Udenkwo was posted to our school, much harm had already been done.
So, all his efforts to bring us back to the subject proved abortive. Only one of us heeded
his entreaties. To demonstrate his ingenuity in the subject, Mr. Udenkwo took his only
'apostle' from the scratch. When we finally took the Senior School Certificate
Examination (SSCE), surprisingly, this student made a distinction in geography. Today,
this same student is a professor of geography.

Our story is typical of what obtains in most secondary schools inNigeria; many teachers
are made to handle subjects they do not major in, thereby "killing" the morale of their

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students. This practice should be discouraged by school administrators. Therefore,
subject specialists should be made to handle their areas of specialty, especially at the
School Certificate Level.

(a) According to the passage, why did the students hate geography? (2 marks)
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(b) Why was the school Guidance Counsellor astonished at the (2 marks)
behaviour of the students?

(c) What did the students receive with thunderous ovation? (1 mark)

(d) What is ironic about the principal's statement? (2 marks)

(e) "... who had worked hard ..." (1 mark)
(i) What grammatical name is given to this expression? (2 marks)
(ii) What is its function in the sentence?
(2 marks)
(f) Why were the students compelled to investigate the old geography
teacher?

(g) How, according to the writer, could students' performance be enhanced (2 marks)
in subject areas?

(h) Find one word or phrase which is nearest in meaningto and can at the same
time replace each of the following words as used inthe passage.

(0 retrospectively
(ii) thunderous
(iii) zeal
(iv) specialist
(V) entreaties
(vi) scratch

—One mark for each correct answer, i.e. 1mark x6 6 marks

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SECTION C

SUMMARY

[30 MARKS]

You are advised to spend about 30 minutes on this section.
6. Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions on it.

When Nigeria returned from the London 2012 Olympic Games without a single medal,
the refrain among the country's sports administrators was that the lessons of the bad
outing would serve the nation well in going forward. Never again was the general cry
from the Nigerianpublic, who felt that the country with a youth population of over
70 million deserved better than a barren show at the world's biggest stage. The London

2012 Olympic Games was the first competition since the 1988 Games in Seoul that
Nigeria would participate in without winning a single medal. Following the outcry that
trailed the poor performance, the then president convened a sports summit where all the
experts pointed at poor preparation and low morale as the reasons for the country's
shameful performance in London.

After the summit, the general consensus was that for Nigeriato get it right again, the
country must drop the fire brigade approach to preparations for major competitions.
There was also the agreement that preparations for future Olympic Games should start
early and thus many youth programmes should be lined up by the National Sports
Commission (NSC) to nurture and produce champions.

However, shortly after the summit, the then sports minister was replaced. Thus the
programme and the path to success laid by experts at the summit were put aside. First to
go was the Nigerian Academicals Sports Committee (NASCOM), which was supposed to
champion the youth development programme expected to lead the country to the podium
in subsequent international competitions.

Following that, was the total blackout of the majority of the federations from
international competitions which were supposed to help the athletes gauge their standard,
as well as ease the upcoming stars on to the world stage. The reason for the neglect of
the federations was lack of funds, but surprisingly, the resources always managed to be
available whenever it is football programme. With the exit ofthe last administration,
most of the sports federations heaved a sigh of relief, believing that the new regime
would treat all the federations equally.

However, such expectations have been hampered by the continued apathy to the needs of
the Nigerian sports in an Olympic year. To feature at the Olympic Games, athletes are
expected to go through qualifiers with their mates from other countries. Absence from
the qualifiers means that the athlete or team has automatically been ruled out of the
games. So it has emerged that, Nigeria may not feature in some of its core events due to
its athletes' inability to participate insome championships that served as qualifiers for the
Olympics.

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S1013 III
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LANGUAGE

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER III

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1. Use HBpencil throughout.
2. Where your answer sheet is not customised, provide the following information:

(a) Inthe space marked Candidate 's Name, write your surname incapital letters
followed by your other names.

(b) Inthe space marked School Name, write the name of your school, and inthe space
marked Subject Name, write English Language III.

(c) Inthe box marked Subject Code, write the digits 1013 inthe spaces. There are
numbered spaces in line with each digit. Shade carefully the space with the same
number as each digit.

(d) Inthe box marked Examination Number,write your examination number in

the spaces at the top of the box. Shade the corresponding numbered spaces inthe
same way as for Subject Code.

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PAPER III

Answer all questions.

Each question is followed by five options lettered A - E. Choose the correct option for each

question and shade in pencil on your answer sheet the answer space which bears the same letter
as the option you have chosen. Give only one answer to each question and erase completely any
answer you wish to change. Do all rough work on this question paper.

An example is given below:
Traffic congestion means

A. a lot of traffic.
B. free flow of traffic.
C. parked vehicles.
D. traffic accident.
E. traffic calming.

The correct option is 'a lot of traffic' which is lettered A. Therefore, answer space A would be
shaded as shown below.

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SECTION 1 She was ina lamentable condition
when Imet her last week.
-Choose from the options lettered A Ethe
A. cheering
one that is most nearly opposite inmeaning B. perfect
to the word or expression in italics C. pitiable
(Nos.1-10). D. serious
E. shockina
1. The indigent man died e:hunger.
3. Some migrants were arrested for
A. generous breaching immigration laws.
B. insolvent
C. poor A. breaking
D. successful B. contravening
E. wealthy C. following
D. fulfilling
E. obeying

4. My mother tolerated my bad 11
behaviour for a while.
9. The government eventually approved
A. allowed sixty- five years as the retirement
B. approved age.
C. considered
D. detested A. albeit
E. ignored B. consequently
C. finally
5. We had a tumultuous day at the D. initially
E. subsequently
office.
10. The old man advised his children to
A. great befrugal.
B. noisy
C. peaceful A. economical
B. mean
D. riotous C. sparing
E. turbulent D. thrifty
E. wasteful
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good choice for a role in the play. SECTION 2

A. humble Complete eachof the following sentences
B. low
C. . mean — -with the most appropriate of the options
D. rich
E. wealthy lettered A E (Nos.ll 20).

7. The committee quashedtheir 11. Ada a car back home as soon
previous decision on the matter.
as she received the news.
A. affirmed
B. overturned A. boarded
C. published B. climbed
D. rejected C. entered
E. submitted D. followed
E. joined
8. It was prudent of you not to have
asked her out. 12. That edifice was designed by a
renowned
A. dangerous
B. foolish A. architect.
C. immoral B. artist.
D. intelligent C. contractor.
E. wise D. engineer.
E. surveyor.

_13. The teacher asked the students to 12
obtain the current of the
18. The professor presented his
dictionary. inaugural lecture using a

A. copy A. magneto.
B. design
C. edition B. microphone.
D. type C. microscope.
E. version D. projector.
E. telescope.
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14. Obi kept himself busy after his _19. Most of the residents believe that

examination by reading an of only a new can boost power

poems. supply inthe area.

A. anthology A. cable
B. encyclopaedia B. fuse
C. essay C. generator
D. index
E. inventory a

. _ _15 The voltage was so high that Ihad E. transformer
to the computer.
_20. As the plane was about to take-off, ÿ
the informedthe passengers

to fasten their seat belts.

A. off A. cabin crew
B. shut down B. control tower
C. shut off C. flight attendant
D. switch off D. flight engineer
E. traffic controller
E. turn off

_16. Moses was of the crime and

was set free.

A. abreast

B. absolved

C. accused

D. indicted

E. informed

_17. The president some Trade

Unions inthe country.

A. abrogated
B. acquitted
C. discharged

D. proscribed
E. ratified

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63. The sound of the gun shot scared 68. Which of the following suffixes can
be added to the word "moment" to
him _ much that he fainted. form a new word?

A. in as A. -en
B. quite B. -ish ,
C. so C. -ive
D. too D. -ous
E. very E. -y

_64. The student and his parents

asked to see the principal.
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A. are in it.
B. is
C. is being A. a little
D. was B. many
E. were C. more
D. much
65. She complains of pains around her E. too many

A. diafram. 70 He spent a whole day doing his
B. diaphragm.
C. diaphram. holiday assignment._ he?
D. diaphrram.
A. did
E. dyphragm. B. didn't
C. does
_66. 'Are there mangoes left in D. doesn't
E. has
the fridge?' mother asked.

A. any
B. less
C. little
D. much
E. some

67. He gazed at a_ through the

window.

A. swarm of bee
B. swarm of bee's
C. swarm of bees
D. swarms of bee
E. swarms of bees

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SECTION 6

In the folkMnif passages, the numbered gaps indicate missing words. Against each number in

-the list befanr each passage, five options are offered in columns lettered A E. Fill each

numbered!;ppmisik ehe most appropriate of the options (Nos. 71 - 100).

PASSAGE A

MosuoMnh had a vision of travelling out of the country many years ago. The opportunity
eveMiaih came and she had her first experience in the air when she travelled in a chartered jet
from Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos to London. She narrated how she obtained her

international - 71 - and visa at the British -72 - ,Lagos. Since then, she has been narrating

her plan to become a -73 - , flying aircraft from one country to another. She talks about the
check-in procedure, about the weighing in of her baggage, about how she climbed up the -74 -
and entered the beautiful -75 - with well-arranged neat looking passengers' seats. With
humour and enthusiasm, she talks more on how the plane taxied along the -76 - ,gathered
speed for the -77 - and -78 - into the clouds. She describes her throbbing heart when the

plane developed engine problem in the air and appeared as if it had -79 - . She says that all the
trouble the passengers were going through were re-assured by the smiling faces of - 80 - ,

stewards and the calm voice and encouraging words of the -81 - which also allayed the fears
of the passengers. Eventually, when the plane touched down and - 82 - at the - 83 -, the
courage and enviable personality of the pilot inspired her to determine to go to the

- 84 - school in Zaria and be trained as a successful pilot because there is nothing in this

world like - 85 r- a plane.
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S/No. A B C D E
71. flight permit ticket
72. passport airport photograph office
73. agency hostess steward
74. captain airline embassy stair case
75. driver gangway pilot villa
76. aisle elevator j runway
77. cabin chamber hall rail
78. shack take-off
79. express park pathway road ran
80. flight jump run stopped
81. disappeared movement moved receptionists
82. darted landed spoilt
83. crashed cooks launched loaders passengers
84. chefs somersaulted officials
85. customers hostesses safe-landed soft-landed
captains ground-landed drivers
halted tarmac tower
crash-landed garage station spaceship
hangar maritime sailing
aviation craft driving riding
driving flying moving

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PASSAGE B

-Ranching is a system of 86 rearing which involves keeping of farm - 87 - on a large scale

and on a large expanse of enclosed - 88 - ,which may be under - 89 - vegetation or - 90 -
pasture. The animals are allowed to move about and - 91 — freely on the ranch.
The - 92 - may have to supply the animals with feed -93 - in form of concentrates, vitamins
and minerals. Enough water is also supplied by the - 94 - . A ranch should be fenced and
provided with stocked crushes, animal dips and sheds or corals to - 95 - the animals during

bad - 96 - . Sheds are also needed to keep and treat - 97 - animals. Inranching, it is possible

to adopt rotational grazing, whereby the ranch is divided into - 98 - and each is used for a

certain period of time before the animals are movedto other sections. - 99 - grazing allows the
- 100 - to grow and prevents overgrazing .
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S/No. A B C D E
86. commercial domesticated wildlife
87. animals birds livestock naturalized reptiles
88. air land fishes mammals
89. abnormal artificial place water
90. common controlled modern space
91. flowered natural
92. eat gnaw native planted
93. graze nibble
94. farmer fisherman perennial stockman
95. additional boosters herdsman supplements
96. farmer handyman essentials munch supervisor
97. cage defend labourer shepherd
98. atmosphere conditions materials incarcerate
99. aggressive healthy expose rancher weather
100. departments harbour sick
columns Revolving situations units
food temperature
Alternating lactating Varying
earth pregnant
fragments surface
sections
Rotational Substitute
land
pasture

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