Modified-Grade 11 Year End-2023

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Grade 11 End Of Year Examination-2023
1121/2
English Language
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Paper 2
Thursday 02 November, 2023
Additional material (s):
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Time: 2 hours
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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1 Do not open this question paper until you are told to do so.
2 Ensure that your name and candidate number are correctly written in the grid
at the top of this page.
3 There are three (3) questions in this paper. Answer all the questions.
4 Write your answers in the spaces provided on the question paper.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
1 Dictionaries and textbooks are not allowed in the examination room.
2 Cell phones are not allowed in the examination room.
DO NOT OPEN THIS QUESTION PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
Answer all three questions
©LDSS/ENG/2023
This question paper consists of 7 printed pages
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Question 1 Structure (20 Marks)
Answer both sections 1 and 2.
Section1: Lexis (10 marks)
In each of the following items, the underlined word has been incorrectly used. Supply
the correct word and write it in the space provided for each sentence as in the example
below.
Example: The learners awaited for the arrival of the head teacher. waited.
The correct word is waited.
1 The play was very good that I enjoyed it. _________________[½]
2 The message was clear, isn’t it? ________________ [½]
3 Of the two, Mary is most beautiful. ________________ [½]
4 They entered in an agreement. ________________ [½]
5 Mary congratulated me for passing my examinations. _______________ [½]
6 The vehicle costed my brother k250 million. _______________ [½]
7 They worked hard with a view of passing. _______________[½]
8 Malumbo made good friends to the manager. _______________[½]
9 I like the crying of the birds in the morning. ______________ [½]
10 One must set his goals in life. ______________[½]
11 He had to look for the unfamiliar word in the dictionary.______________[½]
12 The visitors were entertained by music. _____________[½]
13 Human beings have five toys on each foot. _____________[½]
14 We came across a big herd of lions in the park. ______________[½]
15 What is the bus fee to town? ______________[½]
16 It is high time we go to bed. ______________[½]
17 Is this how a computer looks like? ____________[½]
18 This is my hair saloon. _______________[½]
19 Even if you are provoked, do not result to fighting. _____________[½]
20 The Member of Parliament, in collaboration with ward councilors, are lobbying
for change regarding some laws. _______________[½]
Section 2 - Transformations (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 Peter and his friend are impatient.
B Neither………………………………………………………………………………...
Answer: Neither Peter nor his friend is patient.
1 A No mountain in Africa is higher than Mount Kilimanjaro.
B Mount Kilimanjaro______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________[1]
LDSS/English Language/1121/2/2023
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2 A “Important guests are expected in my palace tonight!” announced King
David.
B King David announced that _________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________[1]
3 A The spectators cheered the athletes. The athletes were running round the track.
B Running __________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________ [1]
4 A It was so shocking that she insulted her mother-in-law.
B That_____________________________________________________________ [1]
5 A I bought a pair of shoes.
Add the following adjectives in the correct order to describe the pair of shoes in
detail:- (red, leather, attractive, high-heeled).
B I bought___________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________pair of shoes. [1]
6 A She passed the exam very well. Therefore, she was enrolled at UNZA.
B She passed the exam so______________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________ [1]
7 A As soon as we finish rehearsing, we will give a live performance.
B No sooner________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________ [1]
8 A This is a good speech. It was written by Nawa.
B This speech________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________[1]
9 A The Serengeti is such a glorious array of the animal kingdom.
B What_____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________ [1]
10 A There are a lot of animals in the Kafue National Park. (Rewrite the whole
sentence and add a question tag.)
B __________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________[1]
Question 2 Comprehension [20 Marks]

Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
WRONG CHOICES
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1 I was born in a God-fearing family and my parents always encouraged us to go to church

though I knew inwardly that I was not really a devout believer. I always hated waking up
early in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays but I had to do so just to please my parents.
2 Time came when I had to leave home. I was among the top ten that had been selected to go
to the University of Zambia from my school. I was overjoyed as I now knew that no one
would tell me what to do against my will. I was „free‟ at last.
3 During the first month of the first semester at campus, I made a lot of acquaintances
which I have lived to regret up to this day. All these friends had several priorities on which
education was the least placed.
4 Despite coming from a humble background, I hated being broke. I would do anything humanly
possible to make sure I had cash in my purse. Little did I know I was headed for
destruction. In the second semester of my first year, I got involved with drug barons,
gangsters and prostitutes. I stopped attending lectures regularly and consoled myself that I
would do last minute catch ups. Alas! My timing proved me wrong.
5 One Friday morning as I lay in my bed relaxing, I heard someone calling me, “Milika! Milika!
Come out. You have visitors here!.” It was Ngambo my course-mate. I quickly jumped out of
my bed, clad in a „chitenge‟ and rushed outside. I was dumbfounded when I saw Sililo and
Kabwe, the drug cartel leaders standing in the company of four men whom I later learnt were
policemen. There was kerfuffle as multitudes of students came to record every detail of
what was happening.
6 “Milika, you are under arrest,” the policeman said. My world came to a standstill; I did not
understand what was going on for five good minutes. My mind went blank. “How could I be
so greedy as to create my own destruction? What will my parents think of me?”
7 For the first time in my life I felt exasperated. As the adage goes „chance comes but once in
a person‟s life time.‟ I had destroyed my golden chance of becoming a degree holder. On the
fateful day, I was arrested. A month later, I was tried and jailed for five years with hard
labour. During my jail sentence, I repented and promised myself that I would be a
dependable citizen. More than anything else, I resolved to serve my sentence with all my
strength.
8 Today, I am a nobody with only a Grade Twelve certificate. Now I understand that we need to
heed our parents‟ advice because parents are custodians of wisdom.
In each of the questions from 1 - 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. If you change
your mind, cross the ring very neatly and put a ring on a different letter. Answer
question 9 according to instructions given.
Example:
The passage is about…
A. Milika B. making right choice C. drug dealers D. being jailed
The best answer is B.
1. According to paragraph one, the writer …
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A. attended church out of self-will.

B. pleased God and her parents.
C. pretended to believe in God.
D. was a dedicated Christian. [2]
2. In paragraph 2, why was the writer overjoyed? She …
A. had made a lot of friends.

B. was free from parental control.
C. was one of the top ten.
D. was selected to go to university. [2]
3. In paragraph 4, the writer implies that people from a poor background should …
A. accept being without money. B. always have money in their purse

C hate being broke D. work very hard [2]
4. In paragraph 5, the writer was dumbfounded because …
A. her course-mate called her name.

B. She clad herself in a ‘chitenge’.
C. the drug cartel leaders came to campus.
D. she saw a lot of students. [2]
5. Which of the following led to Milika‟s arrest?
A. freedom. B. greed C. prostitution D. poverty [2]
6. In paragraph 7, the writer says she was exasperated. Which of the following is not a reason for
the exasperation?
A. the arrest. B. the jailing C. the repentance D. the trial [2]
7. In paragraph 8, one can conclude that the writer is …
A. cautious. B. melancholic C. remorseful D. thoughtful [2]
8. According to the passage, Milika was a …
A. prostitute B. gangster C. drug baron D. drug dealer [2]
9. Match each of the underlined words in the passage with its given corresponding meaning in
the table. Write the word next to the definition in the table. Numbers (i), (iv) and (vi)
have been done for you as examples. Spell each word correctly.
Column A Column B
Word Corresponding Meaning
Example: (i) Semester One of the periods into which a year is
divided at a university or college.
(ii) Extremely powerful persons in a
particular area of business.
(iii) A strong believer.
Example: (iv) Destruction Causing or wanting to cause damage.
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(v) To make someone very annoyed, usually

when they can do nothing to solve a
problem.
Example: (vi) Priorities Things that are very important and must
be dealt with before other things.
(vii) So shocked that you cannot speak.
(viii) Somebody that you have met but do not
know very well.
(ix) A wise saying
(x) People responsible for looking after
somebody or something.
(xi) Noise, excitement and argument.
[4]
Question 3 Summary [20 Marks]
Read the following passage carefully and then answer the question that follows.
Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction

1 There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites have had important effects on
Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to pose a
natural hazard to life on Earth. Twice in the twentieth century, large meteorite objects are
known to have collided with Earth.
2 If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cause an
ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at
the end of the Cretaceous period of geological history. This break in Earth's history is
marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became
extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the
Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists because it marks the end of
the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, those great creatures had flourished.
Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
3 The body that impacted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period was a meteorite with a
mass of more than a trillion tons and a diameter of at least 10 kilometers. Scientists first
identified this impact in 1980 from the worldwide layer of sediment deposited from the dust
cloud that enveloped the planet after the impact. This sediment layer is enriched in the rare
metal iridium and other elements that are relatively abundant in a meteorite but very rare in
the crust of Earth. Even diluted by the terrestrial material excavated from the crater, this
component of meteorites is easily identified. By 1990 geologists had located the impact site
itself in the Yucatán region of Mexico. The crater, now deeply buried in sediment, was
originally about 200 kilometers in diameter.
4 This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as
large as the lunar crater. The explosion lifted about 100 trillion tons of dust into the
atmosphere, as can be determined by measuring the thickness of the sediment layer formed
when this dust settled to the surface. Such a quantity of material would have blocked the
sunlight completely from reaching the surface, plunging Earth into a period of cold and
darkness that lasted at least several months. The explosion is also calculated to have
produced vast quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of Earth,
starting widespread fires that must have consumed most terrestrial forests and grassland.
Presumably, those environmental disasters could have been responsible for the mass
extinction, including the death of the dinosaurs.
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5 Several other mass extinctions in the geological record have been tentatively identified with
large impacts, but none is as dramatic as the Cretaceous event. But even without such
specific documentation, it is clear that impacts of this size do occur and that their results can
be catastrophic. What is a catastrophe for one group of living things, however, may create
opportunities for another group. Following each mass extinction, there is a sudden
evolutionary burst as new species develop to fill the ecological niches opened by the event.
6 Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and
seriously influence the evolution of life all over the planet. According to some estimates, the
majority of all extinctions of species may be due to such impacts. Such a perspective
fundamentally changes our view of biological evolution. The standard criterion for the
survival of a species is its success in competing with other species and adapting to slowly
changing environments. Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to
survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
7 Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting gallery, subject to random violent events that were
unsuspected a few decades ago. In 1991 the United States Congress asked NASA to
investigate the hazard posed today by large impacts on Earth. The group conducting the
study concluded from a detailed analysis that impacts from meteorites can indeed be
hazardous. Although there is always some risk that a large impact could occur, careful study
shows that this risk is quite small.
(Adapted from www.ets.org, accessed 18 April, 2022)
Question
According to the passage, what have been, and could possibly be, the impacts and
effects of meteorites? Use not more than 150 words.
The summary has been started for you.
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Centre Candidate Number

Candidate Name _______________________________

Question 1 Structure (20 Marks)

Answer both sections 1 and 2.

Section1: Lexis (10 marks)

In each of the following items, Sentence A is complete, but Sentence B is incomplete.

Answer: Neither Peter nor his friend is patient.

1 A No mountain in Africa is higher than Mount Kilimanjaro.

2 A “Important guests are expected in my palace tonight!” announced King

B King David announced that _________________________________________

B She passed the exam so______________________________________________

7 A As soon as we finish rehearsing, we will give a live performance.

Question 2 Comprehension [20 Marks]

1 I was born in a God-fearing family and my parents always encouraged us to go to church

The passage is about…

A. Milika B. making right choice C. drug dealers D. being jailed

The best answer is B.

1. According to paragraph one, the writer …

A. attended church out of self-will.

2. In paragraph 2, why was the writer overjoyed? She …

A. had made a lot of friends.

A. accept being without money. B. always have money in their purse

4. In paragraph 5, the writer was dumbfounded because …

A. her course-mate called her name.

5. Which of the following led to Milika‟s arrest?

A. freedom. B. greed C. prostitution D. poverty [2]

A. the arrest. B. the jailing C. the repentance D. the trial [2]

7. In paragraph 8, one can conclude that the writer is …

A. cautious. B. melancholic C. remorseful D. thoughtful [2]

8. According to the passage, Milika was a …

A. prostitute B. gangster C. drug baron D. drug dealer [2]

(v) To make someone very annoyed, usually

Question 3 Summary [20 Marks]

Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction

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