Golearners July 2022 English Language Mock Questions & Answers – Theory

Golearners July 2022 English Language Mock Questions & Answers – Theory: As the days are approaching for the 2022 BECE waec exams, we always try our best to bring you more questions and answers to help you well prepare for the exams.

As a student, you are advised to study hard and smart. Learning hard means always sitting and learning your notes and handouts, but learning smart has to do with solving more of the previous year’s questions. combining these two strategies will surely lead you to success in your examination.

In the past, we have supplied you with some past questions. We promised to keep bringing you more of these questions with marking schemes for your personal studies. If you are here, then you can find below the Golearners July 2022 English Language Mock Questions & Answers – Theory.

This paper consists of two parts: A and B. Answer two questions in all: one question from Part A and all the questions in Part B. Your composition should be about 250 words long, Answer all the questions in your answer booklet.

Golearners July 2022 English Language Mock Questions & Answers – Theory

PART B
COMPREHENSION
30 marks]

Read the following passage carefully and answer all the questions which follow.

During those barren winter months, with windows overlooking long-dead gardens, leafless trees, and lawns that seem to have an ashy look about them, nothing soothes the atmosphere than the vibrant green of plants surrounding the living spaces one’s home. People browse through garden stores just to get a whiff of chlorophyll and to choose a plant or two to bring spring back into their winter-gray lives.

Now there is even more of a need for ‘the green’, in light of recent articles warning us of the hazards of chemicals that we, ourselves, introduce into our homes. Each time we bring clothes home from the cleaners, we release those chemicals into the closed-in air of our dwellings. Every cleanser releases its own assortment of chemicals. We breathe in these chemicals causing symptoms much like allergies.

Research has been conducted with two types of plants that have actually removed much of the harmful chemicals from the air. The two plants that seem to be the best for ridding one’s home of such chemicals are ferns and palms.

These plants release moisture as part of photosynthesis and, as they do, pull chemicals from the air into their leaves. Both species of plants are ancient, dating back more than a hundred million years. Another trait they share is that they both live long lives, 100 years or more.

Perhaps it is their primal qualities that have contributed to their ability to purify their environment.

(a)   (i) Why do people cultivate plants in their homes during the winter?

(ii) Give one reason why people visit garden stores

(b).   Why is there a pressing need for “the green’ according to the passage?

(c      (i) How are chemicals introduced into our home?

(ii) Give one effect of the chemicals we breathe in.

(d)  (i) According to the passage, what types of plants rid of their harmful chemicals?

(ii) How do the plants mentioned in (d) (i) get rid of chemicals in the environment?

(iii) Give two similarities between the chemical-ridding plants mentioned in the passage.

(e)      Explain the following expressions that appear in the passage in your own words;

(i) a need for the green
(ii) their primal qualities

(f) For each of the following words, give another word or phrase that means the same and can fit into the passage.

(i) barren;

(ii) soothes

(iii) hazards;

(iv) trait;

(v) purify.