EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA
Joint Examination for the School Certificate
and General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
ENGLISH 1121/1
PAPER 1
NOVEMBER 2003 · 1 hours 4 5 minutes
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: "
Answer Paper
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer
paper/answer booklet.
There are two sections in this paper. Answer both sections.
Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided.
If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
All questions in this paper carry equal marks.
You should first read through the whole paper.
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You are advised to spend an equal amount of time on each section.
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SECTION 1
You are advised not to spend more than 50 minutes on this section.
Write on one of the following topics. You should write between 250 and 350 words.
1 Write a story which ends:
"In the end we put our heads together and managed to find a solution to our
problem. Things were alright again."
2 Write a story with one of the following titles:
(a) ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD
or
(b) PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL-
3 Write a letter to your friend explaining why you were unable to visit him or her during
the holiday.
4 What reasons, in your opinion, would you give to either support or oppose the idea
that it is men who can make a difference in the spread of HIV/AIDS?
5 Describe what you like and what you dislike about either men's (boys) or women's
(girls) clothes at present. Suggest improvements you would like to see in them.
6 Some people like living in the middle of a town, others on the outskirts. Some prefer
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to live near a river or lake, others in a small village. Assuming money is not a
problem, discuss where you would like to live and what sort of house you would
build.
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SECTION 2
You are advised to spend about 50 minutes on this section.
Your school has realised that the rate at which crime is increasing in your country is alarming.
As chairperson of the Crime Prevention Club, you organise a meeting to present your views
on how to curb the scourge. These are the notes you prepared for your speech to the
members:
- no sale of guns to be entertained
- tighten immigration rules
- make jail sentences for convicted criminals stiffer
- create jobs for all people above 20
- foreigners mainly involved
- educative campaigns for all citizens be introduced
train more policemen
- form effective Neighbourhood Watch Associations
- give Civil Servants good salaries and better conditions of service
- equ ip the Police Service with more guns and vehicles
- place informers at all work places and residential areas
- improve state of shanty townships
- demolish some crime-prone townships
- build reasonable and well-planned houses
- increase police patrols
- encourage the jobless back to the land
Using these points or any relevant points of your own , write a speech , in logical order as you
would present it to your members. Your speech should be between 250 and 350 words.
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EXAMINATI0NS £0UNCIL OF ZAMBIA
Joint Examination for the School Certificate
and General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PAPER2
Friday 7 NOVEMBER 2003
Candidates answer on the question paper
No additional materials are required
Tl~: 2 hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page.
There are three (3) questions in this paper.
Answer all questions.
Write your answers on the spaces provided on the question paper.
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Answer all three questions
Question 1 Summary [20 Marks]
Read the following passage carefully and then answer the question that follows.
Our society worships youth. Advertisements convince us to buy Grecian Formula and Oil of
Olay so we can hide the grey in our hair and smooth the lines on our face. Television shows
feature attractive young stars with firm bodies, perfect complexions, and thick manes of hair.
Middle-aged folks work out in gyms and jog down the street, trying to delay the effects of age.
Being young is often pleasant, but being older has distinct advantages.
When you are young, you are apt to be obsessed with your outward appearance. When my
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brother Dave and I were teens, we worked feverishly to perfect the bodies we had .. Dave
lifted weights, took mega doses of vitamins and drank a half-dozen milk shakes a day in order
to turn his wiry adolescent frame into some muscular ideal. And as a teenager, I dieted
constantly. No matter what I weighed, though, I was never satisfied with the way I looked.
When Dave and I were young, we begged and pleaded for the "right" clothes. If our parents
didn't get them for us, we felt our world would fall apart. How could we go to school wearing
loose-fitting blazers when everyone else would be wearing smartly tailored leather jackets?
We would be considered freaks. I often wonder how my parents, and parents in general,
manage to tolerate their children during the adolescent years. Now, however, Dave and I are
beyond such adolescent agonies. My rounded figure seems fine, and I don't deny myself a
slice of pecan pie if I feel in the mood. Dave still works out, but he has actually become fond
of his tall lanky frame. The two of us enjoy wearing fashionable clothes, but we are no longer
slaves to style. And women, I'm embarrassed to admit, even more than men, have always
seemed to be at the mercy of fashion. Now my clothes-and my brother's- are attractive yet
easy to wear. We no longer feel anxious about what others will think.
As long as we feel good about how we look, we are happy.
Being older is preferable to being younger in another way. Obviously, I still have important
choices to make about my life, but I have already made many of the critical decisions that
confront those just starting out. I chose the man I wanted to marry. I decided to have
children. I elected to return to college to complete my education. But when you are young,
major decisions await you at every turn. "What college should I attend? What career should
I pursue? Should I get married? Should I have children?" These are just a few of the
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issues facing young people. It's no wonder that, despite their carefree facade, they are often
confused, uncertain, and troubled by all the unknowns in their future .
But the greatest benefit of being forty is knowing who I am . The most unsettling aspect of
youth is the uncertainty you feel about your values, goals, and dreams. Being young means
wondering what is worth working for. Being young means feeling happy with yourself one day
and wishing you were never born the next. It means trying on new selves by taking up with
different crowds. It means resenting your parents and their way of life one minute and then
feeling you will never be as good or as accomplished as they are. By way of contrast, forty is
sanity. I have a surer self-identity now. I don't laugh at jokes I don't think are funny. I can
make a speech in front of a town meeting or complain in a store because I am no longer
terrified that people will laugh at me.
Being young means being anxious that everyone must like you. It means blaming your
parents for your every personality quirk or keeping a running score of everything they did
wrong raising you. But life has taught me that I, not they, am responsible for who I am. I
know most people blindly accept the idea that newer is automatically better. But a human life
contradicts this premise. There is a greatdeal of happiness to be found as we grow older.
(From The Macmillan Reader, New York, 1987J -
In not more than 150 words, write a connected summary stating the virtues of growing older.
The summary has been started for you :
Being young is often pleasant, but being older has distinct advantages. When you are older
you .. ........... ...... ..... ............. ........ .... ~ .............. ... ............... ....... ... ..... ........ .............. ........ .... .
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Question 2 COMPREHENSION [20 MARKSl
Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow.
1 I am fascinated by the permeation of maternalism into almost every aspect of women 's
lives - whether they bear children or not. Why is it assumed that being female is
equ ivalent to being a mother, to the extent that traditionally, when a woman was unable
to bear children, the sister or cousin would birth a child for her, thereby making her a
mother and a woman?
2 Without a child to validate her womanhood, a female remained marginalised and
unrecognised in many ways in Africa (and other societies generally), often to the
detriment of her rights as a citizen of that society. This did not happen to men .
Although men needed to have children, they did so for patriarchal reasons- for
purposes of property, lineage and status, rather than as a means through which rights
and entitlements could be accessed. Most of the above still hold true in our modern
African societies. For example, a woman is still called by the names of her children,
and this remains an important element of the naming process, but a man is still called
by his father's name. Motherhood has consequently become an assumed first nature
to all women , to the extent that women express their successes and failures in terms of
birthing and nurturing the young.
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3 Interestingly, the English Language uses expressions like "pregnant with promise",
"aborting a plan", "the birth of a nation" and "miscarriage of justice" - expressions which
relate to politics and the exercise of political power- an arena which hardly includes
women. Why has the reproduction of human life, in which women play the most central
role, been used to describe male-centred concepts of power and politics?
4 I think that the assumption that all women are potential or actual mothers through the
birthing experience also underpins the assumption of universal compulsory
heterosexuality among Africans in particular.
Women who fail to birth babies who survive, are perceived as failures in an even
harsher sense than those women who cannot conceive whether it is their fault or not.
Motherhood has become essential in the validation of one's heterosexuality as well as
in the accessing of a legitimate status in the society as a woman.
5 Because women's bodies, especially their reproductive parts, have been appropriated
in several ways by everyone else in our societies, establishing the right to decide what
happens to one's body in connection with the issue of motherhood has become an
enormous challenge to us as feminists and as women who choose not to name
ourselves as feminists.
6 By giving up one's ownership of person through rituals which locate women into
institutions like the male-headed family, women give up the right to decide whether to
be mothers or simply to live with men as lovers and partners.
Men then insist or persuade that women must make their reproductive capacities
available to them so that they can realise their manhood through women having
children for them.
7 Some women of course have chosen not to have children, and such women are rare
and are still considered peculiar, while other women adopt children in order to access
motherhood and consequently the status of being a mother; not a parent, which is a
genderless status. The right to choose whether or not to have children, and not to be
harassed for having exercised that right, is still unknown, let alone recognised as such
in all African societies.
[Slightly adapted from Africa Monthly Volume 7 no.9]
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In each of the questions 1 to 8, select the best of the four choices given. Show the letter of
your choice by putting a ring around it on the question paper, as in the example below. If you
change your mind, cross out the ring very neatly.
Example: The passage is about
A Childbearing and women.
8 Womanhood.
© Womanhood and childbearing.
D Men's attitude towards women.
C is the best answer and as you can see it has been ringed.
1 In the first paragraph we are told that the writer .••
A is very happy with the way women are treated.
8 is puzzled by the connection between women's lives and parentage.
C approves society's assertion that being female is equivalent to being a mother.
D thinks childless women should call on :-.their relatives to birth children on their behalf.
2 According Paragraph 2 women remain marginalised and unrecognised •••
A when they have no children to show for it.
8 only in Africa and underdeveloped countries.
C to the detriment of their rights.
D because men want them· out of the way.
3 "Men need children for patriarchal reasons". This means •••
A they need children for wealth and heritage.
8 they have children as a show piece to the society.
C men need them for their positions in society.
D men have a greed for bearing children.
4 A woman is still called by the names of her children because •••
A childbearing forms a basic part of the naming process.
8 motherhood is expected of all women.
C a man can be called by his father's name.
D she would like to be identified as a mother.
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5 In paragraph 3 the English Language uses expressions which relate to politics
although •••
A these are against women .
B women are against these expressions.
C women are rarely involved in this sector.
D politics should have been exclusively for women.
6 "Women play the most central role in the reproduction of human life." This implies •••
A they alone can create human life.
B their role is irreplaceable.
C there are other players in the role other than women.
D men only dominate politics and power.
7 According to paragraph 6 one of the ways women give up their ownership is •••
A when they marry men.
B when they choose whether to live wit~ lovers or partners.
C when they locate into institutions.
D when they insist on having children.
8 What is still unknown or unrecognised in all our African societies?
A The right of a woman to be a parent.
B The right to adopt children in order to access motherhood.
C The right not to have children and not be harrassed for it.
D The right to exercise all their human rights.
9 In Paragraph 4 the author says society considers motherhood to be extremely important
in the life of any woman . In two complete sentences give two reasons given for this.
(a)
(b)
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10 For each of the following words or phrases choose one word from those underlined in
the text which have similar meanings:
(a) taken possession of ....... ................................................................................ .
(b) penetration ................................. .. .................... .............................................. .
(c) bringing up ..................................................................................................... .
(d) abandoning ............................. .. ............. ...... ............... ........... ...................... ...
Question 3 Structure
Answer both Section 1 and Section 2
Section 1 [10 Marks]
In each of the following items, sentence A is complete, but sentence B is incomplete.
Complete sentence B each time making it as-similar as possible in meaning to sentence A.
Make sentence B one sentence, never two.
Do not make any changes to the printed parts of sentence B.
Example: A I did not meet him. He did not give me the money.
B Had I ..... ............................ .............................. .............................................
Answer: Had I met him, he would have given me the money.
1 A I borrowed a shovel from Musa.
B Musa ... ............................................................................................ ............... .
2 A I could not weep in public even though I was unhappy.
B unhappy ·.. aS ... J;.... WJ!.:~......;. ...f. ... (~J . . .tJJ....I!!!&f. .... /o..... A1.~4c ,
3 A It is not a habit of mine to drive while drunk.
B lam .. .......... .. ...... ............................................................................................ .
4. A The police were given permission by the Minister to shoot armed criminals on
sight.
B The Minister let .. .:f!......~~1 . Ar.~......~(l6iiJ.J.~....m sjff:.
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5 A It's a pity our treasurer squandered the money.
B l wish ............................................................................................................... .
6 A No mountain in Africa is higher than Mount Kilimanjaro.
B The .................................................................................................................. .
7 A The patient wanted to hav~ milk and not porridge. ,1
B The patient preferred ....M~t k ..~~.... O.O.......... ..... ..1. .. :.~....": ......••....•...• ••...
8 A They were as thorough in their investigations as anyone could be.
B No one ........................................................................................................... .
9 A He didn't start to read until he was ten years old.
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B Not until .. tJL....t!.!!-:~.... .. ... . (. ~......~ .. J./. .....~ . .J.......... ..... fr(A.d •
10 A Let's find a solution to our problems before it is too late.
B ..................... .. ..... .............................. :....... ....... ........ ....................... the better.
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Section 2 [10 Marks]
In the following extract there are twenty blank spaces. Choose one word from the list
of three words given against each number below that you think best suits the blank
space.
Hair styling is a (1) ... ....... !.!~ ......... interesting and satisfying occupation for the girl
(2) ...... / {::h............. an artistic tempera ent. To be a (3) ....S.~_((f__~~ .......... Hair Stylist
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it is essential to have an (4) ..... J ...... !...........'..... love of beauty and a strong
(5) (0.J~.C..I..k~ urge. A (6) ....... ~l.0.. ......... to make things, to create, to beautify. A
(7) ..... .!:!.. ............... liking for people, a ::Z,py friendly disposition and a (8) .....Ur:!.S/tfJ·········
countenance are helpful (9) ........ /n..6.; .....'!....... for hair styling is a luxury trade. Hair always
has been and alw ys will be (10) ..........(/() ................ the news. Since the time of ~he .aJ
(11) .... . . . . .. - ~ ·-· Egyptians, dating back to 3000 B.C., hair has been (12) ... ....~(.f.~.......
Hair Styling once learned, is never forgotten and can always be taken up again after
(13) ....... .. S ........ of time. A trainee Hair Stylist will pass through various (14) .... J .....
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before she can be considered to have mastered all the dos and don'ts of hair styling. One
advantage about hair styling is that a Hair Stylist does not pay a premium for the privilege
(15) ............. being taught but is, instead, paid a wage as soon as she has joined the staff of
an establishment. Most entrants to hairdressing (16) ....... ::~:«.~ ......... as apprenticeships
for a few months first to see (17) ......... fww. .............. the like hairdressing, and to see if the
trade likes them, before signing a (18) ........ . :rl.trCI.C ..... Alternatively, you can attend a
full-time course and join the trade as a qualified Hairdresser. Entry requirements (19) .. V.~
from college to college. Some (20) ...... ce.-.1-.01 .~ ..... you to have '0' levels, usually in
English and Art.
1 much, more, most 11 last, ancient, old
2 has, with, for 12 dressing, undressed, dressed
3 succeeding, successive, successful 13 laps, leaps, lapse
4 inmate, innate, intimate 14 stages, stairs, ways
5 creative, constructive, conducive 15 for, of, on
6 decision, desire, decisiveness 16 service, serve, save
7 neutral, nurtunal, natural 17 how, if, where
8 pleasurable, pleasant, pleasing 18 contact, consent, contract
9 tributes, attributes, tribulations 19 very, vary, valley
10 on, in, of 20 ask, require, want
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