Your school performed very well in the inter-zonal athletics competition held recently. As Sports Prefect, write a report on the competition to your headmaster.

Write an interesting story that ends with the expression, Unfortunately I realized when it was too late that my friend was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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

Nobody wanted Ananse to succeed in drinking the cup of hot water and win, Adiefe, the Chief's beautiful daughter.

Ananse grabbed the cup of hot water, bowed as gracefully as possible and smiled confidently. He lifted the cup and said, slowly and calmly, 'Nana, look...................!' Nana Apo barked, 'yes, it's hot. Drink it right now!' But Ananse kept a cool head. Then, in the full glare of all present, he shook the cup vigorously for some time in order to cool its content. After this, he began to sip the now-lukewarm water as if it was still hot. Between the sips, the pain he seemed to be going through made him frown. He shut the left eye and his right eye shone brightly. He deliberately let his left hand drop loosely by his side.

Nana Apo smiled. Queen Amola grinned. Adiefe giggled-all in happy anticipation of Ananse's failure.

Suddenly Ananse began to drink the warm water more quickly and noisily. Soon, all was gone. He turned the cup upside down towards Nana and, indeed, there was not a single drop in it. Lo and behold, Kweku Ananse, the notorious trickster, had succeeded where all others has failed. There was complete silence. Even the wind seemed to have stopped blowing. The impossible had happened and people's expectation that Kweku Ananse would lose the contest had failed. Eventually, Kweku Ananse's victory had won him the hand of the pretty Princess, Adiefe.

Nana Apo and Queen Amola, with great relunctace, led their daughter, Adiefe, and handed her over to victorious Kweku Ananse.

(a) What was the attitude of the people present before the contest?

(b) Why do you think Ananse shook the cup?

(c) State the three tricks Ananse used to show that he was in pain.

(d)I. Why did Ananse turn the cup upside down?

II. What was the mood of Nana Apo and Queen Amola in the end?

(e) Explain the following expressions in your own words:

I. 'Ananse kept a cool head'

II. 'all was gone'

III. 'The impossible had happened'

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

I. grabbed;

II. barked;

III. deliberately;

IV. Eventually;

V. pretty.

Write a letter to your brother living in another region of your country informing him about the latest news at home.

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

One major cause of environment degradation in Ghana is gold mining. In the name of natural resource development, land is given to mining companies owned by foreigners. These foreigners milk the country dry and destroy the heritage of the people.

From the vast concessions granted them by the government, they extract the gold, destroy the rivers and other water bodies in the communities before going home, leaving the land worthless. Yet their operations are legal.

Approved mining is, however, not the sole gold mining activity. There is also what is regarded as unauthorized mining, called galamsey. In this enterprise, adventurous Ghanaians set out to do private mining as a livelihood. They dig up the earth with tools that are not as sophisticated as those of foreigners who also dig for the precious metal.

Mining activities destroy the environment. So far, it appears that nothing can be done to reclaim the land degraded by miners; the damage is irreversible. Vast tracts of arable land have become desolate mounds because of gold digging. Nothing can grow where galamsey has taken place.

Besides, the main water sources of communities have been polluted by the activities of both legal and illegal miners. The gold extracted from dirt requires cleaning with chemicals and rinsing in water. By the time the gold searchers succeed in producing a glittering handful, large stretches of rivers, ponds of water and some lakes have become poisoned.

Pollution leaves little drinking water for man and beast. Fishes die and human contract various diseases.

(a) Name the types of mining activities discussed in the passage.

(b)I. Which groups of people engage in mining?

(b)II. Why does government give licences to miners?

(c) How are the people and the land affected by the mining activities?

(d)I. How does the writer feel about mining?

(d)II. Why does the writer think that nothing can be done about the effects of mining?

(e) Explain the following expressions in your own words:

I. milk the country dry;

II. leaving the land worthless.

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

I. vast;

II. sole;

III. reclaim;

IV. mounds;

V. glittering.