Answers all the questions

Section A: Grammar (10 marks)

l. Complete the dialogue between a student and her teacher with appropriate expressions formed with: the words in the brackets. (5 marks)
Student: Please sir, for the past one month people (1) . . . . . . .(talk) about good governance. What does it mean?
Teacher: It is a new idea. Good governance (2) . . .. . . . . . (practice) in our families, in schools, at home work, in short everywhere.
Student: How can good governance be practiced in our school?
Teacher: When we come early to school, pass our examination without (3) . . . . . .(cheat).
When you are honest, hardworking and polite, it is good governance.
Student: Let’s look at good governance in the country.
Teacher: When you are free to elect your leader. If they don't perform (4) . .. . . . . (good).
you (5) . . . . .. . . . . . (not re-elect) them. Transparency is also good governance.
Bribery and corruption is bad governance.

II.Complete each sentence with the correct form of the word in the brackets. (5 marks)
1- Computer illiteracy is the . . . . . . . thing for anybody in this modern age (bad).
2- Modern technology has . .. . . . . communication easier for everyone (to make)
3- The dream of many young people is to have their own computers. I believe that if they have computers, they . . . .. . . emails to their friends and carry out research using the internet (Write)
4- Some youths prefer . . . . .. . smart phones to computers because of their love for the social media. (to buy)
5- Alexis told me that h . . . . . . . using the social media because it is unreliable. (not like)

Section B: Vocabulary (10 marks)

I. To complete each sentence, choose the appropriate word from those in the brackets. (5marks)
1. Most companies provide . .. . . . . .. and services to their customers. (goods, cargo, business, allowance)
2. During . . . . . . . . . sales the articles go to the highest bidders. (public, seized, auction, open)
3. In small market shops customers buy articles from . . . . . . . . (details, sailor, clients, retailers)
4. Though government has privatized our electricity company, it still has many . .. . . . . . . in it. (parts, quota, dividends, retailers)
5. After . . .. . . . . .. with the seller, I bought two bags of rice at a reduced price. (agreeing, bargaining, conniving, tiring)

II. Use a word of your own to complete each sentence so that it makes sense. (5 marks)
1. Kelvin has always failed in his life, he has never known . .. . . . . . . .
2. I do not have money anymore, I have to . .. . . . . . . . some money from my friend. He always lends me some money whenever I do not have any.
3. I have forgotten all of my friend’s telephone numbers. I have to look for them in the Telephone. .. . . . . . .
4. If you want to make a phone call, you should first of all . .. . . . . . . a number
5. My father earns a very low salary. That is why he often goes to the bank to get a . .. . . . . . .to pay our school fees.

Section C: Reading comprehension (10 marks)

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Use correct English sentence, as for as possible, your own words.

For decades, Ebola haunted rural African villages like some mythic monster that every few years rose to demand a human sacrifice and then returned to its cave. It reached the West only in nightmare form, a Hollywood horror film that makes eyes bleed and organs dissolve and doctors despair because they have no cure.
But 2014 is the year an outbreak turned into an epidemic, driven by the very progress that has paved roads and raised cities and lifted thousands out of poverty. This time it reached crowded slums in Liberia, Guinea and Siena Leone; it travelled to Nigeria and Mali, to Spain, Germany and the U.S. It struck doctors and nurses, in unprecedented numbers, wiping out a public-health infrastructure that was weak in the first place. One August day in Liberia, six pregnant women lost their babies when hospitals couldn't admit them for complications. Anyone willing to treat-Ebola victims ran the risk of becoming one.
There was little to stop the diseases from spreading further. Governments weren’t equipped to respond; the World Health Organization was in denial. First responders were accused of crying wolf, even as the danger grew. But the people in the field, the special forces of Doctors without Borders (DWB), the Christian medical relief workers of Samar-Ram's Purse and many others from all over the world fought side-by-side with local doctors and nurses, ambulance drivers and burial teams.
Ask what pushed them, and some talk about God; some about country; some about the instinct to run into the fire, not away. “If someone from America comes to help my people and someone from Uganda,” says Iris Manor, a Liberian nurse, “then why can’t l?” Foday Gallah, an ambulance driver who survived infection, calls his immunity a holy gift. “I want to give my blood so a lot of people can be saved,” he says. “I am going to fight Ebola with all of my might."
DWB nurse’s assistant, Salome Karwah stayed at the bedsides of patients, bathing and feeding them, even after losing both her parents - who ran a medical clinic - in a single week and surviving Ebola herself. "it looked like God gave me a second chance to help others,” she says. Tiny children watched their parents die, and no one could so much us embrace them, because embraces could kill. ‘You soc people facing death without their loved ones, only with people in space suits," says DWB president Dr. Joanne Liu. “You should not die alone with spacesuit men."
Those who contracted the disease encountered pain like they had never known. “It hurts like they are busting your head with an axe. “ Karvah says. One doctor overheard his funeral being planned. Asked if surviving Ebola changed him, Dr. Kent Brantly turns the question around. “l still have the same faults that I did before", he says. “But whenever we go through a devastating experience like what l’ve been through, it is an incredible opportunity for improvement of something. We can say, “How can l be better now because of what I’ve been through? Not to do that is kind of a shame.”
The Choice by Nancy Gibbs

Called from Time Magazine Dec 22/Dec 29 2014

Questions
l) How was Ebola considered in rural Africa? ( 2mks)
2) In which year did Ebola become an epidemic? (0.5mk).
How was it epidemic? (1,5 mks)
3) Name any two difficulties encountered in the fight against Ebola. ( 2mks)
4) What motivated those who are fighting this disease? (1mks)
5)Describe how an Ebola patient feels. (2mks)

SECTION D: COMPOSITION (10 marks)

Write an essay of between 150 and 180 words in any ONE of the following topics.

1. Your best friend, Sanda Mohamadou, wrote a letter to you telling you about the many problems they have concerning health. They lack poor drinking water and there is a cholera outbreak. They eat poorly and many have developed diseases. Write a reply to this letter. In your reply, imagine that you are medical personnel. Give him advice on how to purify drinking water, what to do with sick cases and what to eat to stay healthy. You are called Minkoulou David, and you live in Limbé.

2. “Social media brings us closer together.” This is a topic of debate in the English Club of your school. Write an essay expressing what the social media is, how it brings people together and how it separates people.

3. You attended your friend’s birthday party. You liked certain aspects and did not like some.
Write an essay narrating the events that took place, bringing out what you liked and did not liked and how you can improve on aspects you did not like. Your friend’s name is Andela.