22ND JULY ACADEMY
END OF SECOND TERM MOCK EXAMINATIONS MARCH 2016
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER I (THEORY TEST)
GRADE 9 TIME: 2 HOURS
Instructions :Answer one question only from section. Your answer should be about 350 words long.
You are advised to spend about 50 minutes on this section.
SECTION A: ESSAY AND LETTER WRITING
1. Most of the students in your school usually come to school late. Write a letter to your Principal
stating the problems students encounter due to the lack of school buses and suggesting at least two
ways of solving the problem.
2. Most of the students in your school usually choose Nusrat Senior Secondary School as their first
school of choice in The Gambia Basic Education Certificate Examination. (GABECE). Write a letter
to your Principal telling or giving her reasons of choosingNusrat Senior School and suggesting at
least two or three ways of solving this problem of school selection.
3. Complete the story beginning. “It rained and rained. The whole street was flooded. It was quite
impossible for me to go across to the other side………………..”.
4. You were involved in a car accident in which you almost lost your life. Give an account of what
happened.
SECTION B: COMPREHENSION
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions on it. You must
not copy out whole areas of the passage.
Cleaning an aquarium is a job that should be done over two days.
First, fill a large glass bowl with tepid water. The water should stand for twenty-four hours in order to
reach room temperature. Then gently transfer the first water from the tank to the bowl.
Clean the tank with mild detergent and rinse thoroughly to remove all soap from gravel and piece of
paper over the sand or grave. This will prevent the water from stirring up the material in the bottom
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, of the tank. Fill the tank three quarters full of water, remove the paper, and let the water stand for
twenty-four hours. Place the bowl with the fish into the tank. Allow the fish to swim back into the
water in the tank. Then remove the bowl.
A. What according to the passage is the first step in cleaning an aquarium?
B. What should be done before adding water to the tank?
C. How long should the water stand before adding fish?
D. How should the fish be transferred back to the tank?
E. What should be used to clean the tank?
F. What quantity of water should be in the tank?
G. Why should a piece of paper be place over the sand or gravel?
H. Give a word or phrase to replace the following words as they appear in the passage.
i. Tepid
ii. Thoroughly
iii. Prevent
iv. Stirring-up
SECTION C: SUMMARY
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions on it. You must
answer in your own words as far as possible.
There are several types of traditional marriage system in my country. Though all of them are not
practiced today on a large scale, it is necessary to review them because they once existed as part of
the custom of our people.
One type of marriage is the child-marriage. This occurs when two families are very closely knitted in
friendship marriage. When the mother is pregnant, the other family stakes the love of one of their
young men to the baby that is to be born, should it be a girl. The baby is betrothed and the family of
the husband to be plays an active part in the naming ceremony and in the child’s upbringing until is of
age to marry.
Child-marriage also takes place when a baby girl is born in a family where the father is too poor to
provide the requirements for the naming ceremony. He indicates his difficulties to a friendly family
which quickly understands the situation and makes a formal betrothal by supplying all the necessary
requirement.
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END OF SECOND TERM MOCK EXAMINATIONS MARCH 2016
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER I (THEORY TEST)
GRADE 9 TIME: 2 HOURS
Instructions :Answer one question only from section. Your answer should be about 350 words long.
You are advised to spend about 50 minutes on this section.
SECTION A: ESSAY AND LETTER WRITING
1. Most of the students in your school usually come to school late. Write a letter to your Principal
stating the problems students encounter due to the lack of school buses and suggesting at least two
ways of solving the problem.
2. Most of the students in your school usually choose Nusrat Senior Secondary School as their first
school of choice in The Gambia Basic Education Certificate Examination. (GABECE). Write a letter
to your Principal telling or giving her reasons of choosingNusrat Senior School and suggesting at
least two or three ways of solving this problem of school selection.
3. Complete the story beginning. “It rained and rained. The whole street was flooded. It was quite
impossible for me to go across to the other side………………..”.
4. You were involved in a car accident in which you almost lost your life. Give an account of what
happened.
SECTION B: COMPREHENSION
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions on it. You must
not copy out whole areas of the passage.
Cleaning an aquarium is a job that should be done over two days.
First, fill a large glass bowl with tepid water. The water should stand for twenty-four hours in order to
reach room temperature. Then gently transfer the first water from the tank to the bowl.
Clean the tank with mild detergent and rinse thoroughly to remove all soap from gravel and piece of
paper over the sand or grave. This will prevent the water from stirring up the material in the bottom
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, of the tank. Fill the tank three quarters full of water, remove the paper, and let the water stand for
twenty-four hours. Place the bowl with the fish into the tank. Allow the fish to swim back into the
water in the tank. Then remove the bowl.
A. What according to the passage is the first step in cleaning an aquarium?
B. What should be done before adding water to the tank?
C. How long should the water stand before adding fish?
D. How should the fish be transferred back to the tank?
E. What should be used to clean the tank?
F. What quantity of water should be in the tank?
G. Why should a piece of paper be place over the sand or gravel?
H. Give a word or phrase to replace the following words as they appear in the passage.
i. Tepid
ii. Thoroughly
iii. Prevent
iv. Stirring-up
SECTION C: SUMMARY
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions on it. You must
answer in your own words as far as possible.
There are several types of traditional marriage system in my country. Though all of them are not
practiced today on a large scale, it is necessary to review them because they once existed as part of
the custom of our people.
One type of marriage is the child-marriage. This occurs when two families are very closely knitted in
friendship marriage. When the mother is pregnant, the other family stakes the love of one of their
young men to the baby that is to be born, should it be a girl. The baby is betrothed and the family of
the husband to be plays an active part in the naming ceremony and in the child’s upbringing until is of
age to marry.
Child-marriage also takes place when a baby girl is born in a family where the father is too poor to
provide the requirements for the naming ceremony. He indicates his difficulties to a friendly family
which quickly understands the situation and makes a formal betrothal by supplying all the necessary
requirement.
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