BECE ENGLISH TRIAL TEST (CONTACT MR WISE ON 0206622439)
ESSAY WRITING
Answer one question only from this part
Your composition should be about 250 words long
1. Write a letter to the minister of Transport suggesting two ways of improving the public
road transport system in the country.
As the main speaker in a debate on the motion, Students should not wear uniform to
school, write your speech for or against the motion
[Link] a letter to unvite your cousin to spend the holidays with your grandparents, giving
two reasons why he/she should pay them a visit.
COMPREHENSION
4. Read he following carefully and answer all the questions which follow.
the tiger, the cheetah and the cat belongs to the same family. The tiger is the largest of the
family. Although it is a wild animal, it is sometimestrained to assist acrobats in enterrtaining
people.
The cheetah is the fastest animal on land. It can be trained to hunt other animals. Cats are
founf in many homes but there are wild ones too.
Although cats are found in homes, man did not intentionally domesticate them. Befor man
learnt to grow crops and rear animals,he used to depend on plants and animals i the bush
for food.
when he gathered grains which were the seeds of grass,he accidentally took away the food
of the rodents such as rats and mice. These followed their food indoors. The wild cat, the
natural enemy of the rats and mice, also followed them into the domestic granaries
Cats did not eat the grains that were becoming the main source of nourishment for man.
Therefore, they ecouraged to remain at home in order to get rid of the rodents. Man
also probably found out that cats were neater and quieter than dogs.
When ships were invented and man began to trage farther , grains were very important
commodities.
They were used not only as provisions but also as items of barter. The mice and the rats
went along,once again followed by the cats. In this way, a food chain thaat began in the
grasslands to the south and east of the Mediterranean Sea has sopread to all corners of the
world
a) i) What two types of cats are mentioned in the passage?
ii) How did the cat become a domestic animal?
For what two reasons did man prefer cats to dogs?
c) What human activity led to the spread of cats to all corners of the world?
d) i)... a food chain. What is referred to as a food chain in the passage?
ii) Why do you think grains were easily transported to all corner of the world?
e) Explain, in your own words, the following expressions as used in the passage:
i) the domestic granaries
ii) items of baarter
iii) all corners of the world.
f) For each of the folling words, give another word or a phrase that means the same and can
fit into the passage:
i) sometimes
intentioanally
gathered
nourishment
probably
Part C
Answer all the questions in this part
SACKEY J.A and DARMANI L(COMP): The Cockcrow
5. questions 5(a) to 5(c) on the abridged ans simplified version of Charles Dickens' Oliver
Twist
Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
'Mr Bumble made Oliver miserable and the boy couldn't wait to get away from the
workshop'
a Me Bumble made Oliver miserable because.....
b) Who is Mr Bumble?
c) How did Mr Bumble try to get rid of Oliver?
Read the folling extract carefully and answer Questions 5(d) and 5(e)
JEN SARO- WIWA: HOme sweet Home
'They came in the usual assortment of rags: grows picked up from the salts of second-hand
clothes traders, singlets bearing the words, Oxford University, mildewed blouses. Some
women wore shirts that were menat for men; one of them was in a printed cotton
nightgown that had faded beoynd recognition'
d) They refers to.....
e) An imagery of ..... is created in the extract
Read the folling extract carefully and answer Questions 5(f) to 5(h)
AMA ATA AIDOO: The Dilemma of a Ghost
EULALIE: Ya, I remeber i bought the idea, but got the feeling....
ATO: Heavens,women! They are always getting feelings. First,you got the feeling you
needed a couple of years to settle down and now you are obviously geting a feeling
f) what idea did Eulalie buy?
g) what feeling has she got now ?
h) How does Ato react to her feeling?
red the folling extract carefully and answer Questions 5(i) and 5(i)
V.B AAKYE: The Colour of God
How silly man is, laughs the rose
Why should He be black or white
Or green or yellow or even red?
i) the literary device used in laughs the rose is.....
j) according to the poem,what is the colour of God?
