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CSEC English A June 2012 P1 PDF
CSEC English A June 2012 P1 PDF
17 MJ\Y 201
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an answer sheet'
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Items 16-20
sentences' choose the one
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instructions: Each
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on 18 The budget speech was undoubtedly
16: When Mr- Peets was transferred of the briefest in Years'
Point to Maraval'
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irlrs. Adarns succeeded (A) The budget sPeech was without
doubt a very briefone'
(A) Mrs.
- Adams worked at Mararral i, Urag"t sPeech was among the
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itat' Peets left oo Promotion' have had for a long
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The Minister said that the members of
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Opposition had acted very irresponsibly
because they were not in full possesstou
ofthe facts and were corxtantly misieadinel
the people.
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u Instructions: Read the fotlowing
ll is stated or imPlied'
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skies at night-"
24- "streams full of stars, like
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Leisure (l.ine 6), is an examplei
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What is this life if, fuIlof
care, rhyme
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and stare?
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the bough
No time to stand beneath (c) repetition
daYlight,
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Sfieams full of stars,
like skies at night'
glance, ..No time to turn her eYes began'"
No time to turn at Beauty's 25.
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eYes began' (A) pun
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if, fuIl of care, (B)
-'i Apoor life this and stare' (c) persouification
We have no time to
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"Leisure"'
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rve will have a "poor life"
26 The poet believes
.i. ..full of care" (line 1) [r-# rrl if we do nothave
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(B) things to enjoY
.(A) u'g:' (c) money to spend
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(D) hapPiness
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idea "stare as long
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4) because he thinks
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(B) are too ryrxious'
(A) relax beinLath the boughs
and relax (c) have notrBsPect
(B) "iol UeA',g busY
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(c) "rtf,-e surroundings
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Instructions: Read th6 following passage carefully
rvhat is staterl or imPticd.
The Sisters J t. 'n
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messages to Elana' inviting'her to visitlltra
Over the years,.Mada had sent many v/arm and friendly
pqodigal sister never replled' From time to time'
and assuring her that she'd always be welcome. But her
been blessed with two seS of twins'
however, traders Urought news that Elana's marriage to iyakolad
that their marriage was a
rhar Iyako h"d r";;;;;; t i, f"rn., as ruler of the-Kingdom of Horses' and
day, a traveller told Qleen Marta that
5 stormy one. For a long time there was no further news,ntil one
that Elana had lost Uoth her beauty and
Iyako had been thrown by a wild horse and had broken his back,
her mind and, after shouting night and day that the Kingdom of
wild Horses was in accursed one' she
had escaped from keepers. "They r"J"i high and loi for her, but she had vaaished. without a trace"'
the travdler said, shaking his head sadly.
10 The eueen immediately'sum1noned Leha and ordered her to send. search p"rii"s to all of the countries
bordering on the Kingdom of Wild Horses.
"Go to the ends of the earth if you have to, but bring my sistei back to Ilora.'Wholver finds her wiil be
amply rewarded," Queen Marta said to the uackers, traders and interpreters whom Leha had recruited'
goi.ft.ryears of futile searching, the iearchparties returned one byone and reportedthattheyhad
15 found no trace of Elana.
"It's as if your sister has vanished from the face of the earth," Leha said. "I hear you," Queen Marta said
'and yet I feel in my bones that she's still alive."
Leha had led one of the search parties, and when she returned her hainvas streaked with grey andage
had mapped her rough-hewn face with lines as delicate as spider webs.
lam Carew, The Sister and Manco! Stories, Macmillan,200j, pp. 46-47.
29 Tlre style of writing in this extract can 30. "Their rnarriage was a stomy one" (lines
BEST be described as 4-5) implies that
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(B) metaphor
33. The writer implies that Leha was (C) oxymoron
(D), personification
(A) a taveller
tB) Marta's sister
(c) a household servant 36. The concluding sentence of the extract
@) the leader of the queen's arrnY
(A) suggests they had forgotten all
about Elana
(B) indicateethatthey had given upthe
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ltems 37-44
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lnstructions: Read the fouowi4g extract carefully
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Of all the social changes that have affected the famiiy in recent years, by far th-e mqq[
who ha-ve
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significant has been the increase iu the nurnber of mothers of school-age children
have'
outside employment. In Canada, some 75 per cent of women in this categorynow
or part-time jobs- For the most part, econoruc imperatives have left women no
10 work for money- A-n income sufficient to maintain an average familY stYle took one
hours a week to earn in the 1950s. It takes two people 65 to 75 hours a week to earn
The conflicts between work and family life and scarcity oftime to devote to
taken a personal toll on women in the forrn of
stress are harder to deal with than those who are Doq so the tensions of work are
15 into tensions in mother-child relationships. Men, too, report feeling "stressed ouf' agfl
between work and family obligations. Males raised in the tradition of mothers doing
in the home are inclined to be lax in doing housework and awkward in the
actively nuturing children. But ifa two-income farnily is to run smoothly and fairly, the
workload must be shared.
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Ih paragraPn two are neglected
1950s to income
comPares income in the ,i*'i.,g"of the household rvorkload
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todaY to sho-w that can helP a trvo-income familY
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Items 45-51
Instructions: Read the following extraci carefully and then ansll'er items 45-54 on the bas!s,'
is stated or implied.
Any Government - to a good Press - is a suspect instrument. Any Opposition, to a good Press,
is opposing ineptly.
The good Press represents nobody but itself. It is the last stronghold of totaliy aristocratic
5 privilege. tt speaks for the people'because it depends on the people who buy it because they like it;
and because it has an unwritten contract between'it and the people, who would otherwise know about
the Government of the day only what the Government wanted the people to knorv. But this allegiance
to, and conkact with, the people do not bind the Press to any corlmitment except telling ttre tuth.
The Press elects itsel{, and can be removed from offibe orily by a legitimate revolution of the people
10 that stop.buying ig or by an illegitimate coup mounted by the elected estates of the Governm-enl
Every Governrnent is, poteutially a ravage\ everypeople, potentially, a victim. Every good
Press is an individualistic, opinisnalt4 knight who simplldeclares rhat between ravager and victim
therd is a force which will not be frightened by the ravager, and which will not be
irflu"n."d b,
those to whom it sells its opinions.
15 A good Press sgeaks for the people who vote a Government out ofpower ... But the
day after ,
such a Government takes poqer, the Press must be ready to rebuke the peofte
for shouting ..H;ah!,,
for a patenfly incompetent Government.
There is nothing that the politician can do about us in the free press ... $i:
We do not seek office,
influence or advantage from the Party in power. V/e simply
goverrring process,. with or without the approval of the elected
reserye the right to be a part of the
Govemment or its elected Opposi-
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tion. Our constifuency does not depend o4 those who say, "I agree or I disagr-ee"
with what you had
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45. The function of the second and third 46. Why does the writer iL
sentences (lines 2-3) in the extract is to f..-e.pqat the phrase
"good Press't 4t tbp.:
(A) give specific examples of ..a dedi-
cated Oppositiolr,, (line l)
graphs three, fiveand
(A) To
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(B) explain the statement made in the
istics.of thei
first sentence (B) To L
(C) show that the press is only good
which is.n
when it acts as an opposition (c)
(D) To stirnulate'
arouse the reader', .o.r"".n about
rtlie role of the preis gf a'fgpod
(D) To ein
ofa "goo{
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54. Which of the follorving BEST his
;;;;;t in which the writer Presents
Press ""'
50 The'writer states that the good views in this extract?
i"p'*qd"'"" the people ylo bl{.it :::'"'"
;nitl*" it" (line 5i and that it ""' will not
it sells its (A) Fogceful a
be infirenced by'those to
whom
(B) Objective
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state-
(c) Detached
ments taken toge'ther (D) Emotional
popular
(el argue that the Press creattis
opinio::s
its
(B) rep.at that the good Press olves
ontY to its subscribers
(c)
"ll"girr.e
uppa* ccntradictorY but suPPort
ii'," ,rgurrent that a good Press
should be indePendent
show that the Porver of the
Press
(D)
depen,is uPon the number of its
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Instructions: Read the following advertisement carefully and th.n anslver items 55-60 on the basri
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I. I(eep fixtures and bulbs clean. 5. Purchase lamps with dimmer switches,
Dirt can absorb as much as 50o/" as you can lower the seftings wheu less
of light. light is required.
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iEFFTCIENCY the room even'if it's onlY for a
few minutes- It's just a mYth that
'fhis allows light to reflect from the
I walls, making the room brighter \yithout
it takes more energy to turn a light
TIPS on than to leave it on.
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turning on more lights.
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