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2010 BECE English Language Past
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Questions – Paper Two
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Answer one question only from this part.
1. Write a letter to your father asking permission to join your school
mates who are going on an excursion.
2. Write an article for publication in a local newspaper on the topic:
Every school should have a library.
3. Write a short story illustrating the saying:
“All that glitters is not gold.”
BELOW ARE SOME GUIDELINES THAT IF EMPLOYED AND
REMEMBERED SHOULD AID THE STUDENT CONSTRUCT A GOOD ESSAY.
TOPIC SENTENCE : Main Concept Of The Paragraph
THESIS STATEMENT: Clear And Coherent Statement That Answers The
Question Posed.
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE: Evidence That Supports The Concept In The
Thesis Statement.
PAPER FORMAT AND GRAMMAR: The Essay Should Have A Beginning
Middle And An End. It Should Also Utilize
Proper Grammar Including Punctuation, Spelling Subject And Verb Usage.
4. Read the following passage carefully and answer all the questions
which follow.
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When I was about eleven years old, I was unable to stay at one place for
long; I was always on the move.
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Many people thought and said I was troublesome. Prominent among
those who described me as such was my aunt, Araba Oboshea.
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Aunt Araba was particularly mean. She would sit on her stool under the
gum tree in front of the house and wait for
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me to return from wherever I had gone. As soon as I arrived she would
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call me and, without asking me any question
or telling me anything, take my left ear between the forefinger and the
thumb of her right hand and give my ear a silent,
violent and painful twist. I cannot describe the pain I endured. She would
do the same to my right ear.
She explained that she was paying for my absence that I had sold to her!
Aunt Araba would continue to twist both ears
of mine simultaneously with her forefingers and thumbs.
I would scream silently, gritting my teeth so that I could not utter any
sound because of pain. That way I was spared the
next stage of being given countless strokes of any stick she could lay
hands on. One strange thing about Aunt Araba
was that she would never hit me with her hands.
Aunt Araba went on treating me this way because she could hardly
understand why I was always on the move. I could also
not have the courage to explain why it was so because I was afraid of her
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began to hate her.
One Thursday evening when I was going through my usual ordeal, an
elderly man, Agya Manu who usually visited her
appeared on the scene. He pleaded with her to leave me, and asked for
the reason for such punishment.
After he had been told of my “sin”, Agya Manu, who knew me very well,
explained to my auntie that I was always on the move
not because I was in any bad company, but because I was favourite for
any errand. I had been running several errands for him
and many other people. Agya Manu then advised me not to spend all my
time running errands for others but rather, do all my
duties at home.
a) What was the writer’s behaviour when he was about eleven years old?
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b) … I was always on the move.
What is the meaning of this expression?
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c) From the passage, what is the character of Aunt Araba?
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d) Why did Aunt Araba keep punishing the writer
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e) How did Agya Manu rescue the writer
f) For each of the following words, give one word or phrase which means
the same:
(i) endured
(ii) countless
