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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Lexis, Structure & Register (Cloze & Vocabulary)

To keep our bodies healthy, we need a_________ diet.

A

Balanced

B

complete

C

mixed

D

nutritious

E

proteomics

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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Lexis, Structure & Register (Cloze & Vocabulary)

If he_______ there, he would have met him at home

A

can go

B

goes

C

had gone

D

went

E

would go

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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Synonyms (Nearest in Meaning)

Some people believe that it is ominous for the dog to bark at night.

A

dangerous

B

fearful

C

frightening

D

horrible

E

threatening

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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Question Tags, Modals & Pronouns

Many people watched the kidnapper_________ by the angry mob.

A

about to lynch

B

been lynched

C

being lynched

D

lynch

E

was to be lynched

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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Idioms, Figurative Expressions & Sentence Interpretation

The introduction of religious fanaticism in state affairs is an ill wind that blows no one any good. This means that if is a ..........development.

A

Dangerous

B

global

C

recent

D

strange

E

tempestuous

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English Language NECO SSCE 2001 Tenses, Aspect & Conditionals

If I_____ you, l would forgive the boy.

A

am

B

am being

C

have been

D

was

E

were

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Read the following passage carefully and answer, in your own words as far as possible, the question that follows. Poverty! Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is? I really doubt it. How can anyone who enjoys three square meals a day explain what poverty means? Indeed can someone who has two full meals a day claim to know poverty? Perhaps, one begins to grasp the full meaning of poverty when one struggles really hard to have one miserable meal in twenty-four hours. Poverty and hunger are cousins, the former always dragging along the latter wherever he chooses to go. If you were wearing a suit, or a complete traditional attire, and you look naturally rotund in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails. Nor can you have a true feel of poverty if you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind that all these are casual wear. Indeed, if you can change one dress into another, and these are all you can boast of, you are not really poor. A person begins to have a true feel of what poverty means when, apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he doesn’t have any other; not even a calico sheet to keep away the cold at night. Let us face it, how can anyone who has never slept outside, in the open, appreciate the full, harsh import of homelessness? Yet that is what real, naked poverty is. He who can lay claim to a house, however humble, cannot claim to be poor. Indeed, if he can afford to rent a flat, or a room in town or city, without the landlord having cause to eject him, he cannot honestly claim to be poor. The really poor man has no roof over his head, and this is why you find him under a bridge, in a tent or simply in the vast open air. But that is hardly all. The poor man faces the world as a hopeless underdog. In every bargain, every discussion, every event involving him and others, the poor man is constantly reminded of his failure in life. Nobody listens attentively when he makes a point, nobody accepts that his opinion merits consideration. So in most cases, he learns to accept that he has neither wisdom nor opinion. The pauper’s lot naturally rubs off on his child who is subject not only to hunger of the body but also of the mind. The pauper lacks the resources to send his child to school. And even in communities where education is free, the pauper’s child still faces an uphill task because the hunger of the body impedes the proper nourishment of the mind. Denied access to modern communications media, the poor child has very little opportunity to understand the concepts taught him. His mind is rocky soil on which the teacher’s seeds cannot easily germinate. Thus embattled at home and then at school, the pauper’s child soon has very little option but to drop out of school. That is still not all. Weakened by hunger, embattled by cold and exposure to the elements, feeding on poor water and poor food, the pauper is an easy target for diseases. This is precisely why the poorest countries have the shortest life expectancy while the longest life expectancies are recorded among the richest countries. Poverty is really a disease that shortens life! (a)In six sentences, one for each, summarize the problems of the poor man.

A

back door

B

black market

C

fuel depot

D

open market

E

get off

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Write a letter to your father who has been on a long course abroad, telling him how the family has been faring in his absence.

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Write an article for publication in a cultural magazine on the advantages and disadvantages of the extended family system.

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

The last nationwide strike by secondary school teachers affected your school adversely. Write a letter to the Minister of Education suggesting at least three ways of preventing future strike actions.

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Tenses, Aspect & Conditionals

You are a speaker in a debate on the topic “Civilian rule is better than military rule." Write your contribution for or against the motion.

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Write a story, real or imagined, which illustrates the saying "Make hay while the sun shines."

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. Bitrus, a middle-aged man, was speeding along the hot tarmac one afternoon, oblivious to the countryside. By his side, reading a magazine was his first son, a twenty-year-old university computer science student. On the man’s mind was the contract he was pursuing in the capital city. It was worth several million dollars. Although he had handled bigger contracts before, Bitrus was preoccupied with this new challenge, his mind far away from the road before him. His son was also buried in the magazine he was reading. So neither saw the goat crossing the road early enough. Like an automaton, Bitrus jammed on the brakes. In a flash, there was a skid and a somersault. The villagers worked for almost an hour on the huge Mercedes before rescuing the two. There, in the casualty ward, the duo lay on the stretchers. Bitrus was soon in a fairly stable, but anybody would know that the son needed prompt specialist medical attention. The doctor was sent for, a surgeon who regularly handled such cases. Soon enough, the doctor came. The nurses heaved a sigh of relief. But then... “Oh no, I can’t handle this case. He’s my son!” Everyone was shocked. One of the nurses pleaded. “But doctor, you must do something otherwise,... “No, he’s my son. I’ll have to transfer this case.” And so tearfully, more agitated than anybody around, the doctor hurried away to call a colleague. Here was Bitrus, with multiple injuries, but not in danger. In the adjoining room was his son, still comatose. How then could a doctor come in and say, “This is my son”? Wasn’t Bitrus the father after all? Most people would reason that the doctor was truly the secret biological father. Others, reasoning hard, would conclude that the doctor was Bitrus’s father and thus was right in describing him as his son. But for how long would people continue to think that all doctors must be male? Couldn’t the doctor have simply been Mrs. Bitrus? (a) (i) What was the remote cause of the accident? (ii) What was the immediate cause? (b) What does the passage suggest about doctors’ attitude to the cases they handle? (c) Describe the conditions of Mr. Bitrus and his son at the hospital. (d) What assumption about doctors does the passage illustrate? (e) His son was also buried in the magazine he was reading. (i) What type of figurative expression is this? (ii) What is its function as it is used in the sentence? (f) ...that the doctor was truly the secret biological father. (i) What grammatical name is given to this expression? (ii) What is its function as it is used in the sentence? (g) For each of the following, find a word or phrase that means the same and can replace it as it is used in the passage: (i) oblivious (ii) prompt (iii) regularly (iv) pleaded (v) agitated (vi) adjoining

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it. In the 1960s and 1970s undergraduates did not need to apply for employment. Employees usually wooed them by depositing offers of jobs in their halls of residence for those interested to pick and choose from as soon as they finished writing their degree examinations. How things have changed! We have since “progressed” from this age of abundance in which unemployment was hardly heard of to one of economic recession and widespread unemployment. The problem is so acute that one finds unemployment even among engineers and doctors. What are the causes of this phenomenon? For one thing, our educational system does not train its products for self-employment. Everybody expects the government or the private sector to provide them with a job at the end of their studies. As we have now realised, the government and the private sector combined cannot create enough jobs to go around the army of graduates turned out annually by our universities. For another, many parents encourage their children to enrol in courses leading to prestigious and lucrative professions for which they may be intellectually unsuited. They end up obtaining poor degrees or none at all. Such graduates cannot compete in the job market, so they swell the ranks of the unemployable and the unemployed. Perhaps the most important single cause of unemployment is economic recession. During periods of boom, economic activities are generated in abundance and these make plenty of jobs available. But the reverse is the case in times of economic recession. There is no simple solution to the problem. Everyone in the society has a role to play here. The government has a duty to ensure that the economy is buoyant, thus providing the right environment for the creation of jobs. The educational authorities have to orientate the process of education towards the production of job creators rather than job seekers. Guidance and counselling services should be made available in all secondary institutions. Parents, too, should stop misdirecting their children into choosing careers for which they are ill-suited. (a)(i) What was the employment situation like in the 1960s and 1970s? (ii) What is the situation now? (b) In what ways do the education systems, the parents and the students contribute to the unemployment situation? (c) Mention three suggestions given in the last paragraph for solving the problem. (d) Why does the writer enclose the word progressed (First paragraph) in quotation marks? (e) ........for which they may be intellectually unsuited. (i) What grammatical name is given to this expression? (ii)What is its function as it is used in the sentence? (f) For each of the following words, find another word or phrase that means the same and can replace it as it is used in the passage: (i) recession (ii) acute (iii) army (iv) lucrative (v) boom (vi) orientate

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English Language WAEC / WASSCE 2001 Reading Comprehension, Summary & Composition

Read the following passage carefully and answer, in your own words as far as possible, the question that follows. Poverty! Can anyone who has not really been poor know what poverty is? I really doubt it. How can anyone who enjoys three square meals a day explain what poverty means? Indeed can someone who has two full meals a day claim to know poverty? Perhaps, one begins to grasp the full meaning of poverty when one struggles really hard to have one miserable meal in twenty-four hours. Poverty and hunger are cousins, the former always dragging along the latter wherever he chooses to go. If you were wearing a suit, or a complete traditional attire, and you look naturally rotund in your apparel, you cannot understand what poverty entails. Nor can you have a true feel of poverty if you have some good shirts and pairs of trousers, never mind that all these are casual wear. Indeed, if you can change one dress into another, and these are all you can boast of, you are not really poor. A person begins to have a true feel of what poverty means when, apart from the tattered clothes on his body, he doesn’t have any other; not even a calico sheet to keep away the cold at night. Let us face it, how can anyone who has never slept outside, in the open, appreciate the full, harsh import of homelessness? Yet that is what real, naked poverty is. He who can lay claim to a house, however humble, cannot claim to be poor. Indeed, if he can afford to rent a flat, or a room in town or city, without the landlord having cause to eject him, he cannot honestly claim to be poor. The really poor man has no roof over his head, and this is why you find him under a bridge, in a tent or simply in the vast open air. But that is hardly all. The poor man faces the world as a hopeless underdog. In every bargain, every discussion, every event involving him and others, the poor man is constantly reminded of his failure in life. Nobody listens attentively when he makes a point, nobody accepts that his opinion merits consideration. So in most cases, he learns to accept that he has neither wisdom nor opinion. The pauper’s lot naturally rubs off on his child who is subject not only to hunger of the body but also of the mind. The pauper lacks the resources to send his child to school. And even in communities where education is free, the pauper’s child still faces an uphill task because the hunger of the body impedes the proper nourishment of the mind. Denied access to modern communications media, the poor child has very little opportunity to understand the concepts taught him. His mind is rocky soil on which the teacher’s seeds cannot easily germinate. Thus embattled at home and then at school, the pauper’s child soon has very little option but to drop out of school. That is still not all. Weakened by hunger, embattled by cold and exposure to the elements, feeding on poor water and poor food, the pauper is an easy target for diseases. This is precisely why the poorest countries have the shortest life expectancy while the longest life expectancies are recorded among the richest countries. Poverty is really a disease that shortens life! (a)In six sentences, one for each, summarize the problems of the poor man.

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