SECTION A: GRAMMAR
I- Fill in the blank spaces with the correct answers from the brackets 05 marks
1) Before Spain won the World cup in 2010, Germany ………four times. (Won, had won, wins)
2) ………. Jack is coming soon for the meeting as planned yesterday. (Mr, Mr., M.) 3) We ………. (to buy) this flat screen days ago in a supermarket of the capital.
(bought, buy, will buy)
4) She has the best grade in all the subjects and ………. the first. (Will be, is going to be, shall be).
5) What ……… they ………. At the moment you the thief got in? (had been doing, were doing, was doing) The father of Suzy and Paul surprisingly bought Suzy and Paul …...………….. a cake. (her, them, him)
6) The bird was struggling to build the bird’s ……….…… nest two days ago. (his, her, its)
7) Christian or Mary does not yet know Christian’s or Mary’s ………..…….. result. (it, her, his)
8) The book was not these boys’ book ………….. (his, hers, theirs) but Helena’s book……..(hers, his, its)
9) My friend and I ……… told them not to turn down the offer of the company. (you, they, we)
10) I ………. A glass of juice, please. (want, demand, would like)
11) By the end of this year, we ………..………. Finished the English course outline.
(will, will be, will have)
12) I don’t have ……….……… information to give you. (the, an, Ø)
13) Tomorrow at 10 a.m., I ………...………. A test. (will write, will be writing, will have written)
14) I cannot put on this shirt, it is ____________________________ small for me (two, too, to) 15) When Equiano bought his freedom, he ___________________ a slave for a long time
(was, has being, had been)
16) Poachers do not kill rhinos for their meat, __________________________ (aren’t they?, do they?, don’t they?)
17) There are rangers in the park. The poachers cannot kill ______________________
animals today. (no, an, any)
18) We’ve been running _________________________________ two hours and I am very tired.
(for, ago, during)
II- Put the verbs in brackets in the appropriate form.
1) Paul ……….. (to go) to school every day.
2) My friend ……….. (to come) late from work yesterday.
3) If I………….. (to have) money, I……… (to buy) a car.
4) Mary……….. (to get married) next month.
5) What... ……John ………….. (to do) now in his room?
6)
III- Choose the most suitable conjunction to join the following sentences with.
Although, because, after, as soon as, despite, nevertheless, however, if, provided that, unless, until.
1) John finally met me. John had passed by my gate over and over.
………..
2) Simon went to school today. He was ill.
………
3) My friend is not good at mathematics. He works hard to understand that subject.
………
4) We will not leave this place. You will give us our pittance.
………
5) I will drop you off home. You will wait for me at the bus stop.
………
6) Jane came late to school this morning. She was punished by the teacher. (for)
………
7) The farmers will not produce more food. The government must encourage them.
(unless)
………
8) The stranger does not speak French. The stranger does not speak English.
(neither…nor)
………
9) There was no class today in our school. The teachers were striking.(because)
………
10) It was raining heavily today. We went out without an umbrella. (although)
19) IV- Complete the dialogue with a, an, no, some and any.05mrks
20) A: Hello! I am going to the market. Would like ……….…. thing?21) B: Hi! Well, there is ... milk in the fridge. So can you get ...
milk and ... bottle of fruit juice for me, please?
22) A: Ok! I think I will also try to get ……… orange for the baby.
V Transform following sentences as indicated in brackets. 05 marks
1) Let’s go! ……… (Question tag)2) The commission will be buying items tomorrow from 8 a.m. ………...
……… (Passive voice) 3) “If you cook rice, you will realize that ‘Water boils at 100° C’.” said the
man. ………
……… (Reported speech) 4) My friends seldom come to my place. ………
(Question tag)
5) Mary and Alicia are charming……….………
(Comparative)
6) I will send you a mail tomorrow. ……….(passive voice)
7) Who told you that the girl is ……….. (clever) than the boy. (comparative) 8) Douala is probably the ……….. (big) town of Cameroon. (superlative).
9) Today, Peter feels ……… (well) than yesterday. ( comparative)
10) Anger is the ……… (unpredictable) of all feelings. (superlative).
11) The cat is eating the mouse behind the door. (Passive voice).
12) ………
13) 12) I will not stay here tomorrow because this man behaves as if he were a specialist.
(Reported speech)
14) ………
15) 13) Nobody knows where he lives. (Question tag)
16) ………
17) 14) This student knows something about this theft. (Negation)
18) ………..
19) 15) The intersection is 100m from here/He goes to town twice per week. (Question)
20) ………
16) If am free in the meantime, I will let you know.(2nd conditional)
………..
17) “The girl was here yesterday; she has surely left now.” (reported speech)
………
18) The cat was eating the mouse.(passive voice)
………..
19) Paul and Peter ran fast. (comparative)
………..
20) He never drinks alcohol. (question tag)
……….
VI- Transform the following sentences into passive voice
1) The woman rolled a little rice.………
2) John plays basketball every Saturday.
………..
3) They will invite the visitors.
……….
4) The cat is eating the mouse behind the door.
………..
5) The workers are making bricks with cement.
……….……….
VII- Circle the word in which the underlined part is pronounced differently.
1) Rat, sat, spade, span
2) Bacon, water, hospitable, taste 3) Tomato, potato, yam, cat
4) Destabilize, able, ask, ache 5) Display, play, delay, day
6) Care, arms, father, palm, park.
7) Let, meter, weather, bread, send.
8) Field, team, been, see, meet.
9) Cat, travel, dance, ate, castle.
10) Kiss, pick, system, busy, ski
SECTION B: VOCABULARY 10 MARKS
I- I- Match the words in column A with their opposite in column B
Column A Column B
1) Reduce a) Lazy
2) Smart b) Thrilling
3) Thick c) Increase
4) Pretty d) Awful
village women tryparent enough
average confess guide faith banana
became prompt paidtear
equipment
5) Boring e) Light
II- Complete the following sentences with your own words. 05 marks
1) When I informed him that I was no more tavelling, he had already boughtthe………...
2) They won the final and were therefore given
the ………..
3) I did get you well, would you ……… loudly?
4) There are many flowers in the ……… outside.
5) Anna has misplaced her……… Fortunately, there was no money inside.
6) III- Provide a synonym to the underlined one in the following sentences.
05 marks
1) Everybody’s dream is to become a very wealthy man in life………..
2) It took long for the man to find out that her wife was a prostitute……….
3) Yaoundé is among the biggest cities in Cameroun………..
4) He has not appreciated the way you talk to him……….
5) The path was too narrow that we had to alight from it and walk……….
6) Blacks in the USA defied the segregation laws and entered “whites only”
buses ………...……..……
7) The commonwealth assists nations in times of difficult transition………...……..……
8) Limbe is a beautiful town on the coast of Cameroon ………...……..……
9) This girl lazy at English language ……...………..……
10) Ethiopian are generally thin ………...……..……
IV Make nouns from the verbs in the following table. 05 marks
Verb Noun
a) To move i)
b) To rule ii)
c) To attend iii)
d) To begin iv)
e) To decide v)
V- Choose the word which the meaning is closest to the underlined one.
1) William is a wealthy man……….. (Poor, rich, miserable) 2) Kate is still an adolescent……… (Baby, child, teenager)
3) The Mc was beautifully dressed that day……….. (Nicely, poorly, badly) 4) That man was really afraid……….(Scared, encouraged, intact)
5) My neighbour plays draughts from dawn to dusk. ……(morning, afternoon, evening) 6) William is a wealthy man……….. (Poor, rich, miserable)
7) Kate is still an adolescent……… (Baby, child, teenager)
8) The Mc was beautifully dressed that day……….. (Nicely, poorly, badly) 9) That man was really afraid……….(Scared, encouraged, intact)
10) My neighbour plays draughts from dawn to dusk. ……(morning, afternoon, evening) 11) In some Senegalese and Gambian families, meals are copious………
(More, little, abundant).
12) I heard meals of your tribe are delicious……… (Succulent, nasty, delicieux)
13) The boy who served us food in the restaurant is my neighbour. ……….(Waiter, server, man)
14) The sauce we ate did not have salt; it was salt-free……… (Salty, saltily, bland)
15) The family that welcomed me was friendly and charitable. ……….(Good, better, hospitable)
16)
VI- Complete the following sentences with the appropriate word.
1) The man ………… came here yesterday is around (That, who, whom) 2) Is this the girl ……….. you gave the book to. (Who, whom, that) 3) The book…….. you bought is thrilling. (Which, that, whose) 4) The man…….. car was stolen called me. (Whose, which,
5) I want the ball with……… you were playing. (Why, which, that) 6) My mother arrived …….. Monday morning. (At, on, in)
7) Come to my place…….. 08:00am. (On, at, in)
8) He came……… (in, into, up) my room and sat……… my bed. (on, in, at).
9) After a while, she decided to stand…….. me. (Besides, beside, by)
10) He did go……. (to, in, from) to school for his father came back……….. (again, from, back) London in the morning.
11) Our teacher wanted to ……….. us a story today. (count, say, tell)
12) Vegetables and ……….. are important to our health. (friuts, fruits, fruit)
13) We ultimately met ………… the evening due to his tight timetable. (in, on, at) 14) The man said that he had enjoyed ……… book very much. (this, these,
that)
15) The mouse was ……… by the cat. (been eaten, being eaten, be eaten)
16) He forgot that he was born ……….. (on, in, Ø) Saturday ……….. (on, at, in ) June.
17) The key that was ……… (one, in, on) the table fell ………….. (in, into, onto) the bucket.
18) I am your friend. ………. (am’t I? am I?; aren’t I?) 19) The abbreviation of Professor is ………. (Pr., Pr, Pof)
VII- Complete the following blanks with the correct preposition from the list hereafter. 05marks
behind, towards, during, ago, to, from, on, for, at, up, into, beside, above, since, in
My friend had been waiting for me ……….. hours when I called him, fortunately I
was ……… the nearby police station. So I told him to walk ……… the waiting room and wait for me ………. once there. In fact, I wanted to meet the superintendent but I was informed that he I came ……… holiday time for he left for
vacation ……… two weeks. My friend and I then went ……….. the bank and met a friend at the entrance; he was just coming………….. there but couldn’t withdraw money because of a network problem. The British flag was waving ……… the bank building since it was an establishment that owned a Londoner. All of us finally started moving ………. the downtown.
I- SECTION C: COMPREHENSION/10 marks
Read this passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it.
The name ‘Cameroon’ derived from the term used for the Wouri River by Portuguese explorers. Reaching the Cameroon coast near the modern port city of Douala around 1472, those explorers named the river Rio dos Camaroes ("River of Prawns") after the variety of crayfish they found there. This name later was applied to the coastal area between Mount Cameroon and Rio Muni.
Cameroon has distinct regional cultural, religious, and political traditions as well as ethnic variety. The division of the country into British- and French-ruled League of Nations mandates after World War I created Anglophone and Francophone regions. The English- speaking region consists of the Southwest and Northwest provinces, where Pidgin English is the lingua franca and English is taught in school. The educational system and legal practices derive from those of England. The French-speaking region consists of the
remaining eight regions, where French is the lingua franca, the French school system is used, and the legal system is based on the statutory law of continental Europe. This region is dominant in numbers and power. Tension between the two regions increased after the introduction of a multiparty political system in the 1990s.
The English-speaking region is divided into two cultural regions. The Grass fields peoples of the Northwest Province consist of nearly one hundred chiefdoms each ruled by a divine king (fon). Most of these chiefdoms have patrilineal or dual descent kinship systems, although some groups, such as the Kom, are matrilineal. Polygyny and fertility are important cultural values, although this varies by wealth and education. The social organization and culture of the Grass fielders are closely related to those of the French- speaking Bamiléké peoples of the Western region. Like the Bamiléké, Grass fielders often are in opposition to the central government.
QUESTIONS
1) Why was the river named Rio dos
Cameroes? ...
2) Who where the first Europeans to explore the Cameroon coast? ...
……….
3) What is common between the Grass fielders and the Bamiléké? ………..
………
4) When was multiparty politics introduced in
Cameroon.?………...
………
5) Name the eight regions of the French speaking area or zone...
………...
SECTION D: ESSAY WRITING (10 MARKS) Write an essay of about 250- 300 words on one of the following topics.
1) Describe a wedding or birthday party in which you were invited.
2) You read a newspaper with the title: “The need to legalize abortion” in “The Scientists” newspaper. You do not share the opinion of the writer. Write a letter to the editor expressing your disagreement. In this letter, your name is AYUCK Victor and your address is Lycée de Mamfé, P.O. Box132 Mamfé.
3) How do we cook your favourite dish?
4) Write the description of somebody you admire. Make sure you mention physical and moral aspects of the person so as why you admire the person.
The end Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!
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