MID TERM TEST FIRST TERM ENGLISH STUDIES SS 1

FIRST TERM MID TERM TEST 

                             SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE     CLASS: SS1 ONE (1)     Time: 

SECTION A: OBJECTIVES

INSTRUCTION: You are required to choose the best option for the questions numbered 1- 20

1.    __________  is my mother’s hobby (a) Cooking (b) to be cooking (c) to be cooking always (d) to have cooked
2. Do you now if the new teacher     __________ yet? (a) Is arrived (b) will be arriving (c) has arrived (d) had arrived
3. Ikorodu is not far from here, it is only an              __________    (a) Hour of driving (b) hour’s drive (c) hour by driving (d) hours drive
4. We travelled all night and arrived                __________     the Oyo motor park at six O’clock in the morning (a) By (b) inside (c) on (d) at
5. I am looking forward    __________
              you at the reception hall (a) To meet (b) to meeting (c) to be met (d) to have met
6. My father does not mind     _________        me to school every day. (a) Driving (b) to drive (c) to be driving (d) to drove
7. It was         __________               who fought the war (a) Them (b) themselves (c) they (d) theirselves
8. It is bad to take ___________ property without permission (à) Someone’s else (b) someone else’ (c) someone else’ (d) some else’s
9. The table you are writing                        is made  _________ wood.(a) on/from (b) on/of (c) from/on (d) of/on
10. Michael has done all   _________  his father asked him to do (a) What (b) which (c) whose (d) that
11. The     __________ attracted many people from different countries. (a) Ocassion (b) occasion (c) occason (d) occasion
12. Favour sings beautifully                        she? __________ (a) Doesn’t (b) don’t (c) isn’t (d) didn’t
13. My uncle       __________   ladies shoes  (a) Deals by (b) deals on (c) deals with (d) deals in
14. He who pays the piper           __________
           the tune  (a) Calls (b) dictates (c) always dictates (d) call
15. You     __________   get to the meeting in time. (a) Had better (b) better (c) have better (d) may better
16. Had he known, he              away. (a) Will go (b) would have gone (c) will be going (d) may be going
17. It is time we                   (a) Went (b) should be going (c) go (d) are going
18. The head of state in his New Year broadcast to the nation emphasized the need for Nigerians to regard                           members of the same family.
19. Themselves (b) one another (c) each other (d) theirselves
20. The neighbor’s children always make                         when she is not at home. 
21. Noises (b) plenty of noises (c) a lot of noise (d) lots of noises.
22. We ought to stay away ________ the robbers to come back. (a) Although (b) should in case (c) in case (d) provided

Choose the word or phrase A to D which has the same meaning as the underlined word in each sentence numbered 21 – 25

21.Writing for newspapers is exciting and lucrative especially when one is a freelance journalist

(a) An unattached (b) an eloquent (c) a convincing (d) a political

21. In some parts of our society, people are ostracized purely on the basis of their parentage.

(a) Shut off from others (b)  hated (c) locked (d) abandoned

22. In a civilized society, it is unseemly to emit a loud belch at the end of a meal

(a) Annoying (b) stupid (c) outrageous (d) impolite

23.While the mother and father were arguing furiously their little boy sat patiently taking in everything they said.

(a)Noting (b) absorbing (c) embracing (d) accepting

24.He has never been a good mediator, even in minor family disputes ,because in most cases, his views are mostly jaundiced

(a)Prejudiced (b) suspicious (c) sick (d) colored

Instruction: choose the word that is most suitable to fill the numbered gap in the passages for the questions numbered 26 – 30

Most fixed fees, insurance companies will help a firm insure against _26___ and provide some __27__.  Most firms often seek __28__ against fire, theft, fraud and other _29__ happenings for which they pay __30__ to the insurance companies. 

Section B: ESSAY – ANSWER ONLY ONE

1. Your sister wants to marry a man from another ethnic group against your mother’s wish. Write a letter to your mother giving at least three reasons why she should accept your sister’s decision.
2. Write an article suitable for publication in your school magazine stating the merits and demerits of peer groups.
3. Write a story ending with “if I had known, I wouldn’t have gone out with him”. It must be suitable for publication in your school magazine.

Section C: COMPREHENSION

“The end has come for me. I can no longer make any meaning of my life. I do not want to be a farmer. What will I do? What trade do I learn? Very soon, my friends will desert me. They will no longer need me because I will no longer fit in their groups. Then, I will become an outcast”. 

     These were my words as I dragged my feet shamefully homeward from school. I had just been prevented from writing my promotion examinations because I have not paid the balance of ten naira of the forty-five naira tuition. My father died a year ago and my mother a full time housewife, had no money to complete the tuition. My father’s siblings all women have taken over everything he left behind.

      They sold the three and a half bags of cocoa. The disposed of the motorcycle, the sewing machine and the roofing sheets he bought to roof the house he was building. There was no one to help. I was completely naked. The trauma went on for two days until a woman whose name I could no longer remember gave me the money to pay although I had missed three subjects. The free education of the following two years of my five-year secondary education saved me from another harrowing experience that would have compelled me to stop schooling.

     Twenty years after, as an adult, married and employed, I was the leader, the coordinator and adviser of the youths in my locality. As I told the 150 seated youths and adults, my guests my biography, many people shed tears while many others really cried. Everyone’s mouth was open as they learnt that I had no sponsor throughout school. Much more pathetic was that I had to become a farmhand to some families to get a few basic needs of life. When I told the audience that for seven days, at a point in time in the university, I ate only pawpaw which I got from only fallow lands at the campus they marveled and asked whether that was possible.

Comprehension questions

1. In which school year was the writer stopped from writing examinations?
2. What job did the writer engage in to sustain himself through school life?
3. Why was the writer unable to pay his school fee?
4. What do you think was the feeling of the writer when someone paid the balance?
5. _ _ _ _ a full time housewife_ _  _ _
6. What is the grammatical name?
7. What is its function as it is used in the sentence?

Section D: SUMMARY 

In two sentences, summarize the two reasons why the writer could not pay the tuition and their fees in the school.

three subjects. The free education of the following two years of my five-year secondary education saved me from another harrowing experience that would have compelled me to stop schooling.

     Twenty years after, as an adult, married and employed, I was the leader, the coordinator and adviser of the youths in my locality. As I told the 150 seated youths and adults, my guests my biography, many people shed tears while many others really cried. Everyone’s mouth was open as they learnt that I had no sponsor throughout school. Much more pathetic was that I had to become a farmhand to some families to get a few basic needs of life. When I told the audience that for seven days, at a point in time in the university, I ate only pawpaw which I got from only fallow lands at the campus they marveled and asked whether that was possible.

Comprehension questions

1. In which school year was the writer stopped from writing examinations?
2. What job did the writer engage in to sustain himself through school life?
3. Why was the writer unable to pay his school fee?
4. What do you think was the feeling of the writer when someone paid the balance?
5. _ _ _ _ a full time housewife_ _  _ _
6. What is the grammatical name?
7. What is its function as it is used in the sentence?

Section D: SUMMARY 

In two sentences, summarize the two reasons why the writer could not pay the tuition and their fees in the school.