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WAEC 2017
WASSCE ENGLISH
COMPREHENSION PASSAGE I
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions on it.
Five decades ago, my classmates lured me into a trap that taught me the lesson of a lifetime. As a class monitor, I was informed that the class had decided not to do the homework given to us by the geography teacher. The decision was based on three grounds. First, she had not taught us anything substantial since her arrival in the school. Second, we must let her know that in this all-male institution, a female should not push us around. Also, she seemed forever inaudible when teaching us.
So come on my mates mandated me to convey the decision to her period that sent, I confronted her without decision. All she said was, ‘Noted.’ I assumed we had won the day. Alas how wrong I was. When she came to class the following Monday, she demanded the homework. As I stood up to restate our stand, behold, all my classmates took out their notebooks and submitted them. I was the odd one out in the class of 35 boys! This act of betrayal left me speechless. Any protest now was out of the question.
The teacher let me to the overgrown parts of the football field, and measured out a large portion, and ordered me to clear it before returning to either the class or the dormitory. I realized I had been stabbed in the back, as I heard my mates laugh sarcastically in the classroom. I bend down with my sharpened cutlass, determined to finish the work within the day and regain my freedom in good time. How wrong I was!
My father had chosen that day of all days to pay a visit. He really did so, as a school in Tamale was far from a crowd, his peace. Not finding me in class for my axe after my whereabouts. My mates described to him my heinous crime and directed him to my punishment post. When he arrived, he took the cutlass from me, cut a cane and gave me the flogging of my life. He then went to the bursar’s office, paid the balance of my fees, and returned to Accra with all the provisions he had brought for me.
I finished that task just before the last school I will, went to the lady teacher, prostrated myself, and tearfully apologized to her. But for the rest of the week, and indeed many more days I stayed aloof from my mates.
Questions
(a) How did the class betray their monitor?
(b) Stay two forms of punishment the monitor received.
(c) What coincidences there in the narration?
(d) In what ways did the monitor show remorse?
(e) What was the reaction of the monitor to his mate after the incident?
(f) When she came to class the following Monday…
i.) What grammatical name is giving to this expression as it is used in the passage?
ii.) What is its function?
(g) …I had been stabbed in the back…
i.) What figure of speech is used in this expression?
ii.) What does it mean?
(h) For each of the following words of fries, find another word of freeze which means the same in which can replace it as it is used in the passage:
i.) Mandated
ii.) Assumed
iii.) betrayal
iv.) sarcastically
v.) heinous
vi.) tearfully
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